Chris Barylick (Founder, Mac Dude and Penguin Admirer): A Mac user since 1985, Chris has spent the last several years tinkering with both the hardware and software ends of these systems. A walk-in technical consultant for the George Washington University's Center for Academic and Technical Services for the better part of three years, a staff trainer during his senior year, a technical consultant tasked with reworking the software images on the several campus Mac classrooms in 2001 and a former Macintosh systems analyst for Arlington Public Schools between undergrad and the beginning of grad school, Chris received full Apple-Certified Macintosh Technician certification and has spent most of his his time seeing what hardware and software changes will make a Mac run smoothly or wince in agony. He later snagged a second ACMT certification in 2021.