Hader & Associates was involved with general consulting and custom software services, drawing on Hader's extensive history in implementing mainframe and minicomputer systems using then current technologies like Cobol, DiBol, RPG and so on. The PC explosion was unanticipated but ended up becoming the major segment of this business. You must remember that there was a dearth of good software for personal computers at that time. Hader & Associates eventually provided all of the PC services for customers of the IBM Product Centers, which were later sold off to Nynex. Under Nynex, the centers failed and were gone in a couple short years.

The other channel that Atrium Learning Center operated was technical training. Starting with classes taught by Micheal Hader at California State University, Long Beach in 1980, an emerging demand developed for many types of classes. The CSULB program added more and more classes each semester and by 1986 over 40 different offerings were in the mix, along with three different certificate programs. Atrium also developed relationships with PC retailers such as MicroAge and Inacom and provided classes in their stores across southern California. Most of these classes were on popular PC software programs such as Lotus 1-2-3, Microsoft Word, MS-DOS and others.

In 1985, Hader started offering higher-level seminar courses through Data-Tech Institute. These courses were designed to address niches that were not being offered in the typical computer store or collegiate program. Early courses were on topics such as Advanced Lotus 1-2-3 Macros, Programming Using dBase III and Understanding PC Technologies. As demand for PC-based networks grew, the courses shifted into courses on Novell NetWare, Microsoft Lan Manager, Microsoft Windows Troubleshooting, WAN Design and Implementation and so forth. An estimated 30,000 people attended courses developed and taught by Atrium Learning Center over a 10-year period.

As a complimentary effort, Micheal Hader authored several books starting with Mastering NetWare published by Addison-Wesley in 1986. This was the first major book on NetWare. He went on to author or co-write seven other titles between 1987 and 1994. He also wrote all of the courseware listed below.

Netguru.Net was the domain that the company used to publish other materials such as courses that were no longer being marketed, used as a download site for seminar offerings.

Atrium Learning Center and Hader & Associates have gone by the wayside at this point but the domain remains popular and is self supporting due to the relationship with Amazon.com. It remains dedicated to bringing technology information to it's visitors, as well as anything else that might be interesting.

Micheal Hader is now the Director of Information Technologies at Odom's Tennessee Pride Sauasage, Inc. in Nashville, TN. His opinions and projects are still of interest and he has had the following citations while working for Tennessee Pride:

Mike's Profile on Linked-In
Limit Your Liability, Automation World, Sep. 2007
Resource Guide: Business Intelligence Solutions, Multichannel Merchant, Apr. 2007
RFID Helps Tennessee Pride Ease the Grind of Sausage Making and Compliance, Bars & Stripes, Sep. 2007
Solutions That Make Excel Behave, Treasury & Risk, Feb. 2005
Actuate Debuts SmartSheet Security, Actuate Corporation, Sep. 2006
First Managed Spreadsheet Hits the Market, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, Jan. 2005
Actuate Equips Spreadsheets to Meet Compliance Requirements, Business Wire, Dec. 2004
Giving your customers a load of BI, CRM News, Dec. 2004
Cognos, Actuate Tackle Data Management, eWeek, Dec. 2004

Hader holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and a BA from California State University at Fullerton.

Micheal Hader's Published Books:
Mastering NetWare, Howard W. Sams Publishing, 1988, ISBN 0672484552
NetWare Troubleshooting, Addison Wesley Computer Books, 1990, ISBN 0201577372
Networking Windows 3.1, Que Books, 1992, ISBN 1565290526
Killer WordPerfect 6 Utilities, Que Books, 1992, ISBN 1565293622
Killer Windows Utilities, Que Books, 1993, ISBN 0880229322
Windows Connectivity Secrets, IDG Publishing, 1994, ISBN 1568840306
NetWare Unleashed, New Riders Publishing, 1993, ISBN 067230712X

Seminars & Courseware Developed and Taught:
Computer Literacy Certificate, Atrium Learning Center & California State University - Long Beach
Introduction to DOS, Atrium Learning Center
Lotus 123, Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced, Atrium Learning Center
WordPerfect 5.1 Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced, Atrium Learning Center
Microsoft Word Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced, Atrium Learning Center
Advanced Lotus 123, Data-Tech Institute
Lotus 123 Macros, Data-Tech Institute
Introduction to dBASE, Data-Tech Institute
dBASE III+ and Local Area Networks, Data-Tech Institute
Advanced Programming Techniques Using dBASE, Data-Tech Institute
PC Troubleshooting, Data-Tech Institute
Understanding LANs, Data-Tech Institute
Fundamentals of Data Communications, Data-Tech Institute
Taking Control of Novell NetWare, Data-Tech Institute
DOS Power Tools, Data-Tech Institute
Understanding Novell NetWare, Data-Tech Institute
NetWare Troubleshooting, Data-Tech Institute & Atrium Learning Center
Windows on NetWare, Data-Tech Institute
NetWare Survival Course, Data-Tech Institute
Networking Windows, Atrium Learning Center
PC Memory Management, Atrium Learning Center
NetWare Bootcamp, Atrium Learning Center
Networking Windows 95, Atrium Learning Center
Installing, Configuring & Maintaining Windows NT Server 4, Tech-Link Training

 



Micheal Hader aka. Netguru