This week, I walked east along Highway #201 to Lawrencetown Lane (Brian Reid’s corner).
En route, I stopped to take note of the new NTMK
i sign, opposite Beaver Creek vineyards. NTMK is a software development/consulting company. They have purchased the River Bend Cranberry building. This was previously operated by Don Taylor. The pond is still there.
This caused me to reflect on the various software development, programming and consulting businesses in the Lawrencetown community of Annapolis County.
In Lawrencetown, Lynn and David Roscoe maintain their SKE Inc business. Brian Reid operates a health services software shop, BriTech Information Systems. Now we have NTMK.
If I go back to the 1980s, we delivered intensive programs at COGS in Scientific Computer Programming, Business Computer Programming, Computer Graphics and GIS programming. A number of key graduates/instructors remain in the County: Barry Mooney, Roger Mosher, David Colville, and Kevin Bauer; choosing to live in a rural community, and apply their programming/software design skills.
There is certainly room for these skills to be applied to ‘community economies’ (see Community Economies“).
Perhaps, it is also time for the NSCC (COGS) to reintroduce some of these intensive programs, in support of the surrounding rural communities.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to my earlier co-workers at COGS: Barry Mooney, Roger Mosher, and David Colville who still reside in the County. Heather shares country living. Edward adds his artistic touch.
References
SKE Inc., Lynn and David Roscoe
NTMK, Nathan Mackenzie.
BriTech Information Systems Inc., Brian Reid.
Ernest Blair Experiment 