Who is Beef Cattle Solutions

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Linda Thrower: Linda grew up in Centralia Illinois, Centralia is a small town located just south of Springfield. Living in a rural setting for more than a decade where she became familiar with livestock and her love of animals grew. After graduating from Centralia High School Linda and her family moved to Albuquerque New Mexico where she studied architectural design at the University Of New Mexico. Later attending college in Dallas, Texas and receiving her degree in merchandising and retail marketing.

She has worked with several of the nations largest retail organizations for many years, her talent in design and merchandising has allowed her to travel extensively. Linda is responsible for many of the product displays you find today at your favorite department stores, she is also a full time mother of two.

You'll find many of her design concept's in the artwork she and her husband Mark provide for their growing portfolio of Web sites and corporate illustrations. She became involved with computer artwork in 1999.

Mark Thrower: Mark began studying advanced computer applications in 1989 where he soon found a career in the High Tech industry. The commercial Internet industry did not exist yet as we know it today. Working with an INC. 500 company for 6.5 years his talent with customers was soon recognized and was promoted out of design and development to Regional Sales Manager for the Midwest States.

In 1995 Mark had his first experience with the Internet and in 1996 he left his position to pursue a career with an Internet service provider and design company. Having skills as a graphics designer for PC related programs it was a natural fit. Mark designed his first Web site in 1997. His path led him to a small company in Dallas, Texas and the company became world famous Christmas 1999 for developing a small downloadable game called Elf Bowling.

Mark started his own Web design company in 2001 providing high quality affordable Web site solutions to small business. They started working with cattle ranchers helping them put their cattle ranch related services online. Soon they were very busy doing additional work for those same customers adding new livestock pages and content updates to their sites. Customers were paying them to update their Web sites several times a month, but that just didn't seem right. Being familiar with relational database management systems (RDMS) Mark knew there had to be a better way of doing this. In the fall of 2003 they began development on what is now known as Cattle Ware™ a complete Web site solution tailored just for the beef cattle industry. After the initial success of the product they began development on version 2.0 in late 2004.