Mark Roland

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Born to a Southern Baptist preacher and military "lifer" needless to say respect and whooping my butt were daily issues! Bailed out of college life 3.70 3rd quarter junior, divorced, live alone and I have 2 grown boys and one grown up girl. IBM 28 years left to start one of 3 companies. I never needed hospital care until the last 5 years in which I was in ICU 3 times meeting the Angel of Death twice. The medical bills led to bankruptcy and I can honestly say I have lost a small fortune 3 times.

Experience

• Service Planning Project Manager

  Aug 1979 to Aug 2003

  I started working for IBM in 1979 taking service calls for main frame system 360. Over the next 28 years I was promoted and trained having several technical certifications A+ hardware, IBM server specialist, MCSE+Internet and Project Management.

• Owner

  Jan 1997 to Mar 2003

  Bought used computer equipment, primarily remote controllers,dumb terminals and banking equipment. Refurbished and sold via classifieds, Ebay and personal contacts in the industry. Also installed the hardware,cables and network.

• Owner

  Mar 2002 to Feb 2005

  Built and maintained web sites for HOA, MLM and churches using Dream Weaver and Front Page because templates at the time were not main stream, few to choose from and had to many problems to deal with. Today templates are the way to go.

• Owner

  May 2003 to Apr 2007

  Purchased a commercial cleaning franchise which was the biggest mistake of my life. Arbitration requirements prohibit my mentioning the name but after arbitration I had equipment and customers and the Clean Machine was born.

• Joined APSense.com

  Jun 2011