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In 1992, Phil founded the Los Angeles Portable User Group and is the group’s President. Using this educational background and his ability to listen and understand the people he's working with, Phil is very much a 'people' person and this helps to put his clients at ease so that they don't feel intimidated with computers. He also wrote one of the textbooks for the computer literacy course that was used by several thousand students at the University for many years. In 1989, he joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at UCLA where he taught computer literacy and computer programming through 1994 and returned as a visiting lecturer in 1997.

Phil completed both his undergraduate work in Molecular Biology and graduate work at the Graduate School of Education at UCLA where he specialized in computer-assisted learning. Phil continues to be a nationally recognized speaker for macOS technology and also provides regular training to the Los Angeles area Apple Consultants Network community as one of its founders and as a member of the group's leadership board.

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His motto is “If a manual is needed to use software we create, then we didn’t do our job right'.Īs a sought-after professional speaker, Phil has spoken at and taught hundreds of seminars on various computer and IT related topics at national and local conferences including Macworld, iWorld, MacIT, MacTech and ACES, as well as computer user groups, internal Apple training camps and various Apple stores.Īpple occasonally spotlights consultants who work with their technologies and they wrote a success story about Goodman Consulting for the Apple web site. Using his academic background in relational database theory, he uses a modular approach to developing solutions that is both flexible and scalable but is also simple and straightforward to use. Phil Goodman has provided database solutions for clients in various industries such as health care, marketing communications, service, IT, entertainment, human resources, and education. He has been using FileMaker Pro for over 33 years and has been developing databases professionally since 1990. In addition to demonstrating expert level macOS knowledge, Phil is also a Claris Partner (formerly the FileMaker Business Alliance). He has been recognized as an 'Apple Product Professional' – a designation reserved for only the top achievers in Apple's internal education program. Phil is also recognized as a CWNP Certified Wireless Technician so he can handle your WiFi needs with ease. Phil is one of very few consultants in the world that holds certifications in every version of macOS including the Apple Certified Support Professional, Apple Certified Technical Coordinator, Apple Certified Security & Mobility Specialist, and Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist as well as the Apple Mobility Technical Competency (iOS) credentials. Phil is also one of a handful of Apple Certified Trainers nationwide allowing him to teach Apple’s desktop and server courses leading to certification. With over 33 years of computer consulting experience, Phil was one of the founding members of Apple's Consultants Network (ACN) program in 1989 (and has been a member longer than any other consultant in the world) and served on Apple’s inagural ACN Advisory Council from 1999-2004. Owner Phil Goodman has been a frequent seminar speaker and instructor at national conferences such as Macworld Expo, Macworld | iWorld, MacIT, MacTech Conference, MacTech Bootcamp, Apple’s Channel Camp and MacFair/LA.