Rob Phillips founded Kansas City PC Professional with conviction that people want and should to be informed and knowledgeable about a tool that has become a integral part of their lives - the PC.  Rob holds a BS in Psychology and a MS in Computer Science from Kansas State University.  As Graduate Teaching Assistant at KSU, he instructed introductory and advanced computer courses which included evening adult education courses.  He is also a Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Professional. MBTI is an instrument used to measure the dominant way an individual gathers information and how an individual uses that information to  make judgments or decisions.
     Rob was introduced to PCs in 1983 as a defense contractor working on the Maneuver Control System (MCS) for the US Army.  For the next 20 years, he has developed PC software for various industries such as aerospace, mapping, telephony and construction.  Rob was also co-founder and president of Paradigm Digital Research, Inc (PDR).  PDR developed OmniMap, one of the first CD-based mapping systems for PCs in the early 1990s.
     Most recently, Rob has spent the last 3 years traveling nationwide training engineers on the use of estimating software that he co-developed.  During this time he realized that some of the brightest people were lacking in basic computer skills for various reasons: busy raising kids, keeping current with their chosen industry, and just plain trying to make a living.  Most people then felt that the computer revolution had passed them by and it was too late, because there was so much to learn.  Rob learned that by giving people a basic understanding of the computer, they were then able to explore and discover on their own.