ABOUT OUR COMPANY
 
Whatcomputers was started in August of 2001 as a home-based custom computer builder and repair company. We moved to an office in Historic Downtown Fairhaven in August of 2004, and to our new store at 1130 Finnegan Way in March 2006. We are proud to be a part of this revitalized historic neighborhood.

Owner Warren S. Levine has over twenty years’ experience building, setting up, programming, and maintaining PCs and networks both domestically and internationally, primarily to track shipments and perform supply-chain logistical control for importers of goods from Asia. He has set up systems and trained users throughout the U.S., the Far East and Southeast Asia, specializing in the Chinese-speaking countries. Warren was born in Brooklyn, worked at the World Trade Center in New York, and later in Denver and Seattle before moving to Bellingham in 1999. He has written for a number of publications, including The Bellingham Herald, and had a monthly computer column in Whatcom County Business Pulse Magazine under former editor Dave Brumbaugh. Warren is the chief systems engineer and owner of Whatcomputers.

Chief Technician Josh Myers is a Bellingham native, and has four years' experience with a local Bellingham ISP, in addition to many years' experience building and repairing computers. He's been with Whatcomputers for about a year, and is intimately familiar with the local computing community.

Whatcomputers also employs some of the brightest young students from Western Washington University and other local schools to answer and route customer calls. As we expand, new employees will be introduced on this page.

Beginning in the spring of 2007, we're going to be holding classes especially designed to help Senior Citizens learn about and enjoy their computers. Each lesson will feature easy-to-follow demonstrations, hands-on training, handouts, a Q&A session, and at least one teaching assistant who will be there just to give you an extra hand if you need it. We're planning classes on Windows, using the Internet and manipulating files, how to use e-mail and attachments, simple photo-editing and sharing, and other topics of interest to the local senior community.

Our philosophy of doing business is simple: We're here to help you. And we love what we do. Otherwise, we wouldn't be doing it. We're not in this to get rich. We want to have satisfied customers, individuals and businesses, with healthy, functioning computers. And we'll do whatever we have to in order to achieve that goal. That's our promise to you. Come down to our store - the soft drinks are on us - and we'll show you what a personal personal computer company is all about. Or, give us a call and ask us that computer question you've been dying to ask someone. Unlike every other computer company in town, Whatcomputers is happy to answer your phoned-in questions.

And, while we're on the cutting edge of technology, we've still got old-fashioned values. We donated well over $5,000 in goods and services to local charities and people on disability or fixed incomes in 2005 and a similar amount in 2006. We care about our neighbors. We also donated to the Cambodian Schools Project, and continue to donate funds to Hurricane Katrina Victims' Relief. We give all our customers special treatment, and we give extra-special personalized treatment to seniors. If you've walked out of one of the other computer places in town grumbling, come on into Whatcomputers and see the difference between us and everyone else.

We look forward to working with you to improve your computing experience and increase your efficiency, or your enjoyment, or both. If there’s anything we can help you with, please feel free to email or call us, or stop by at your convenience. We’re located in the new Fairhaven Gardens Building, at 1130 Finnegan Way in Fairhaven, in our fully ADA-compliant store, and we look forward to seeing you or hearing from you soon.

If you're coming from downtown Bellingham, take State Street till it becomes Boulevard, and follow it around to the left until you see the Welcome to Fairhaven painting on the side of the building. We're a hundred feet past that landmark, on the right side of the street. If you're coming from I-5, take Exit 250 / Old Fairhaven Parkway, go west, make a right on 12th, and we're on the block after KeyBank, across from the library. There's free 15-minute parking right in front of our store. (There's a map on the Contact Us page of this website.)

Whatcomputers Inc. is a member of the Fairhaven Association.

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Updated on Monday, 02/26/2007 22:59 h PDT

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