MK

Mark Knittel

Board Member, Founder at ARES NGO (African Ruggedized Education Systems)

Bellingham, Washington

Education

Work Experience

  • President

    2017

  • President

    2015

    IT consulting for small/medium businesses.

  • Board Member, Founder

    2014

    ARES is an NGO headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with a focus on Eastern Africa. ARES provides pre-loaded education servers and access devices that allow rural schools to provide world class education content and teaching tools in areas that typically have limited/no internet, unreliable electrical supply, limited local text books/libraries, etc. The ARES NGO servers and access devices are very affordable and often supplemented with grants from Rotary International and other philanthropic groups. The servers contain a massive amount of open source education content., and are battery powered, along with all of the access devices (low cost Windows/Chrome notebooks, tablets, smart phones, etc.) ARES partners with Afretech (Vancouver BC), Tembo Trading (Bellingham, Washington), and Computers for Schools Kenya (CFSK - Nairobi, Kenya). We have successfully installed ARES systems in dozens of schools across Eastern Africa, with a goal of expanding to a broad swath of public/private schools in the near future. Website: https://ARES.education

  • Owner

    2006 - 2015

    Provider of computer services for small/medium business customers in Whatcom and Skagit Counties - including hardware/software repairs, proactive maintenance services, networking, backup/recovery, computer sales, etc. We are located at 510 Carolina Street. We also provide on-site and remote managed services for small/medium businesses in Whatcom and Skagit Counties.

1997 - 2005

  • Group VP, Operations

    1997 - 2005

1977 - 1997

  • Director, Networking Products

    1977 - 1997