He purchased one of the first 128K Apple Macintoshes shipped to Edmonton, Alberta in March, 1984 and began programming the Macintosh. Early projects were in MS Basic (the only Macintosh programming language available in early 1984) and included statistical analysis, Mac to mainframe translators, Mac to mainframe telecommunications software, and games.

In 1986 Colin decided to move away from engineering research and turn his full energies to the computer field. He moved to Victoria, B.C. and started Black Pearl Computing Ltd. shortly thereafter.

In 1989, while still managing Black Pearl Computing Ltd, Colin returned to university and successfully completed all of the courses required for a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Victoria (including his thesis research). Unforseen personal circumstances prevented him from editing and defending his thesis.

Colin's areas of expertise include Macintosh programming, simulation modelling, statistical data analyses, documentation and technical report preparation, SCSI and serial input/output, graphical user interface design, computer graphics and algorithms for computer-aided design, and more recently database and web programming, and home automation systems design and programming.

His computer skills embody a strong knowledge of Macintosh, VAX (Unix), Sun and Sparc work stations (Unix, Suntools, NeWS, XWindows) and many computer languages including C, assembly language, Fortran (66,77,90), Pascal, CSMP, GPSS, PostScript, and SQL.

In 1999 Colin was recruited by the Saanich School District (No. 63) to take over the position of Manager of Information Technology. While there, in addition to overseeing the day to day workings of the school district's technology (23 schools, more than 10,000 students and several hundred staff), he restructured the IT department, oversaw the Year 2000 transition, worked with the schools and Physical Plant to design (or re-design) and document the schools' computer networks for improved reliability and security, aided in the move to a new district accounting system, coded the district web site (and set up the server), coded a database application for schools to provide annual computer inventories, managed and troubleshot the district email system, guided many school-based projects, sat on numerous committees, and attended many meetings with both district staff and parents. In December of 2000 he resigned his position to return to his true passion - his consulting business.

In addition to being a commercial software developer, Mr. Woytowich is actively involved in the service, retail and distribution sides of the computer industry through his holdings in several computer firms.

Colin enjoys using his strong technical and analytical skills to provide practical solutions to the many complex problems presented to him by his clients.