Apple services:

Dave began his Apple support business in 1988 and is currently an Apple Certified Support Professional registered with the Apple Consultants Network serving homes, businesses, and educational institutions all over Pittsburgh and surrounding regions with onsite services.

Dave also provides remote support services for Apple clients all over the USA including Texas, Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, and North Dakota. Now with better broadband satellite services available worldwide, Dave is able to remotely support Apple clients as far as London, Zimbabwe, Saskatchewan and Nicaragua.

Dave led the project to expand MacOutfitters (1999) from a single Doylestown, PA location into Cranberry Township. Dave still serves today as one of many Apple Consultants supporting their Apple Retail Specialist Store customers in Cranberry Township and Oxford Center in Downtown Pittsburgh.

Dave also serves the Pittsburgh area Apple Stores (2004) customers from locations in Shadyside, South Hills Village, and Ross Park Mall.

Dave was an Apple Computer team member in the Maine Wireless Laptop Project (2002), in a groundbreaking statewide project between Apple and the entire state of Maine.

Dave was an Apple Computer team member in the Bioinformatics Research Cluster (2004) for Genetic Research at the University of Pittsburgh.

Community services:

Dave created the North Pittsburgh Macintosh Users Group (1996) that met monthly for 14 years and recently transitioned to a very active daily Apple listserve for community Mac support issues. Dave had been an active member of the Pittsburgh Apple Business Users Group (1988-1996) before creating the NPMUG. Dave is also currently an active member of the County of Westmoreland Mac Users Group (2004) that meets monthly in Monroeville PA.

Dave was a member of a handful of community computer projects over the years, including the SewickleyNET (1992) placing several businesses in the village of Sewickley on the internet for the first time, Team Internet (1992) as a joint Mac and PC free support project, Lighthouse Foundation of Butler (2003) placing recycled computers at rural food banks, The Center for Hope (2004) in Ambridge building an 85 computer network in an old school for urban community computer access, Goodwill of Southwestern PA (2007) building the first dedicated Apple volunteer recycling team within the existing Computer Recycling Center. A detailed history and blog of all these community recycling efforts can be followed weekly at the PghMac website.

Dave has grown the Apple recycling system around Pittsburgh to be one of the largest operations of its kind. Dave leads the effort to send these repaired refurbished Apple computers to the poorest communities around Western PA and the world through the humanitarian 501c3 non-profit ComputeReach (2010).