About Us
The Company
NetStart Consulting Ltd. was formed by Tom Malaher and Linda Tauscher in 1994 to assist small businesses in establishing a presence on the Web. Since then our focus has expanded to encompass a variety of skills in the computing technology field that we have acquired during the past two decades.
Tom Malaher
Tom holds an MASc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He has worked as a software developer, engineer, system administrator, systems analyst, network administrator, Webmaster, and consultant. His previous employers include: the University of Manitoba, University of Waterloo, Nortel, and XOR Network Engineering (among others). Tom's thesis investigated the application of artifical intelligence algorithms to path planning for robots.
Linda Tauscher
Linda earned her BSc in Computer Science at the University of Alberta in 1985, and her MSc in Computer Science at the University of Calgary in 1996. She has worked as a programmer, systems analyst, project manager, user interface designer, and trainer. Her previous employers include: Procter & Gamble, DMR Group, DeVry Institute of Technology, Nortel, and the Alberta Research Council. Linda currently specializes in user interface design and evaluation with a focus on Web-based applications. Her thesis involved an empirical study of WWW page revisitation patterns, and included guidelines for the design of Web browser history mechanisms.