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Home-based advantage pays off

Michael Becker ‘News Editor michael@nsnews.com WEST Vancouver is -- home to the highest ' concentration of home- based businesses in the region.

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NORTH Vancouver? "5 Rick Baxter has joined “West Coast Air,

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employed labor force in West Vancouver was working at home in 1996.

Business consultant Murray Hendren is one of them.

Hendren provides sophisti- cated financial reporting ser- vices for B.C. coimpanics,

He specializes in working with F9. software, a product based on’ the principal of dynamic spreadsheet linking.

Hendren helped to develop the software approximately 10 years ago when he was in charge of software development at Vancouver-based Synex Systems Corporation.

“We were well-known in the U.S, We also had a, data com-

BAXTER with developing its charter and "group usiness, adding float. pian, adventure tours and fleet expansion.

“We. are looking forward to adding. some innovative and exciting tour packages ,that can .be tailored to cus- tomers’: needs,” said Baxter.

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pression product that was bun- ited with Borland Quattro spreadsheet at the time. ic went out in over a million installa- tions,” he said.

Hendren left Synex in 1992 when management changed at the company.

He went on to head a high- tech company in Nanaimo. The company was called Teranct (now called Triant). “We did some artificial intelligence soft- ware used to predict faults in the manufacturing process.”

He stayed there for two years and then moved on to offer management consulting services as Hendren & Associates. Since then he has

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Following his graduation from the University of British Columbia, Baxter has been working in the tourism. field

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He initially introduced the F9 software program at his loca! church, West Vancouver Baptist Church. “I thought, gee this actuaily works well. I real- ized there weren’t many people in the local area who had the expertise in doing this kind of financial reporting. I started doing that and realized there were other people who needed this service,” he said.

Hendren took on more complex jobs, He’s keeping tack of a shipping company’s trust funds, for example.

“Shipping companies, although they tend to be small,

and. sits on the board of. Tourism Vancouver. His most recent posting was with Baxter Aviation where he learned the ropes of float plane operations.

He tater formed Baxter Tours Inc. to focus on the leisure and tour business

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Hendren has a close rela- tionship with Synex. “They help’ with various aspects of market- ing and rechnical help. They still own the product and I’m using it as a resource for the clients.”

Heenjoys the flexibility of working from home. “With the Internet it is as if 1 am in peo- ple’s offices.”

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