MacCentric Solutions
Yes. We're the Mac guys you're looking for.
MacCentric Solutions is an Apple-certified Macintosh consultancy & systems integrator serving the San Francisco Bay Area.
About MacCentric Solutions
MacCentric Solutions is an Apple-certified Macintosh consultancy and systems integrator serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1998. What’s a systems integrator? It’s the number you call when wrangling your computers is the last thing your company wants to do.
We’ve provided Macintosh support for over 100 Bay Area clients, including print, web, and 3D design firms, architects, consultants, financial service providers, non-profits, schools, are ready to help you. Whether it’s drafting a technology plan, caretaking your Mac servers, or fixing your workstation bugs, we have the skills to figure out which ones you need.
To prove it, we’ll put our money where our mouths are and give you an initial consultation for free. If rebooting the thing still doesn’t work, call now!
MacCentric Solutions is a member of the Better Business Bureau, and upholds the Bureau’s standards of fairness, honesty, and professionalism.
Mac Daddy
Noam Birnbaum, MacCentric’s El Presidente, and all-around nice guy has been working as a Mac consultant for fifteen years. While he was a computer user from a young age, during his undergraduate studies at Oberlin College, in between semi-earnest intellectual pursuits, he began to work on computers in a work-study job, which he has continued in ever since.
Noam has a BA from Oberlin College, a MA and a MFA in Poetics from New College of California. Noam has taught classes in literature and history, and was part of a local stand-up comedy troupe. After writing some of his most morbid stand-up, he decided to take a break to ponder a true existential crisis and the eternal question: “If I were Nabokov, living in 1800s Austria, would I have been sorely tempted to wear leiderhosen?”
Nowadays, when he is not laboring away in his present field, Noam enjoys reading, and hanging out with his wife and four cats, and his giant collection of brightly decorative socks.The Mac Scientist
Brandon Carter Meixel, a Certified Apple Help Desk Specialist and easily our snappiest dresser, has been supporting Apple users since 2000 - the year he got his first iMac DV Special Edition. Sold on their form, then was hooked by their function, Brandon knew there was no going back! Since then he has provided Mac-exclusive hardware and software consultation for home, office, educational and creative studio environments. Since joining MacCentric Solutions, Brandon has been focused on mastering OS X Server and matching sneakers with suits.Ringmaster
Nicole Tatem, our Ringmaster extraordinaire, comes to us with her BA in Radio, Film and Television Production and a minor in Photography from University of North Texas, and an AA in Visual Communications from Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. She has worked in the videogame industry, which makes beating her at anything nearly impossible, and has designed gorgeous decorative glass windows, which has nothing to do with the IT world, to which we say, “Brava!”
Nicole enjoys spear-fishing giant Antarctic squid in her spare time. While riding a motorcycle. And singing portions of La Boheme.Senior Cat Herder
Avrille Birnbaum, MacCentric’s copy-writer, part-time HR person and co-conspirator to El Presidente, came to work with Noam, Nicole, Brandon and Rick since she has the right amount of OCD for the job. Avrille is not certified in anything having to do with technology and uncontrollably blanches at the thought.
Avrille has earned a BA from The Evergreen State College, a MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, a MA in Psychology from New College of California, and is finishing her doctoral work in Psychology with the Wright Institute.
In her spare time, Avrille hangs out with her husband, their four cats, and an evil collection of bright socks. When she is not doing that, she can be found writing silly business such as these bios and laughing uncontrollably at all of the things that she must edit out it the name of good taste.