Marco Tran, The Simple Entrepreneur.

The start of my awesome life. Was born in Baclieu, Vietnam.

Parents fled Vietnam as refugees a few months after I was born. Our family spent time in Malaysia before being given the opportunity to live in Italy.

Our family moved to Australia.

Completed Year 12 and was accepted to UTS studying Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) majoring in Telecommunications Engineering

Met the love of my life

Started my first job at Transgrid

Graduated from Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)

Completed Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Telecommunications Networks

Project Management of various network project to specify, install, configure and commission new systems and services for the Roads and Traffic Authority

A technical role to provide support and maintain voice and data network for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Married to my beautiful wife Angela.

Managed the voice, voicemail, data – (routers, switches, VPN, firewalls), fax, teleconferencing, web conferencing, mobile phones, wireless and blackberry services and provided Tier Support for Australia and New Zealand

Started my first company. Came up with an idea whilst attending a course and soon after launched Advertise Me. Advertise Me is a digital advertising company that primarily focused on the digital signage industry. The company now focuses on digital solutions. This includes custom tools, mobile applications, advertising so much more. I've learnt so much since the inception of this company. Visit Advertise Me

My son Jayden entered into this world.

My daughter Olivia joined our family. Our OJAM (Olivia Jayden Angela Marco) clan is complete.

Whilst working on a number of projects for Advertise Me we saw an opportunity in the mobile space to create an exciting app that helps consumers shop and find great sales based on their interests. Visit Squeak

Our parent company Advertise Me launched a new product and website called Social Wall. The idea with this product started as we saw a need to be able to display social media posts on digital screens. Social Wall is a simple and easy to use tool to aggregate and display social media posts on any digital device. Visit Social Wall

Decided to start my own personal blog and here we are.

Launched a new digital signage solution product called ePosters. This is an interactive digital poster solution designed to be used for events, exhibitions or any location that requires displaying interactive posters. Visit ePosters

Started the Vegan journey. Decided it was time to move from a Vegetarian to a Vegan diet and launched a new website called Veggie Meals. Visit Veggie Meals

Social Timeline is a new Idea for a social media application to display digital content. Created the beta version so visit Social Timeline

Online Hosting Solutions is a hosting business and I started this because I was frustrated with domain renewal costs. I'm looking at expanding to hosting SaaS tools.

I started running at least 5 KM every day.

Relaunched the Digital Signage Portal

Completed the following Reading and Writing for Adults, Social Media Engagement

Completed the following short courses Digital Forensics, Cryptography

Only took a few years to finally launch AdvertiseMe.TV - our digital signage software solution.

Completed the following short courses CISSP, Comparative Cloud Technologies

Completed the following Small Business, Introduction to Accounting

Completed Undergraduate Certificate in Applied Technologies, Information Technology

Achieved Azure AI Fundamentals

Achieved Security Operations Analyst Associate, Azure Administrator Associate

Achieved AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Achieved Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate

Achieved Generative AI and its Business Applications

Launched Medical Boards - Digital Signage Solutions for Medical and Healthcare Centres

Launched Directory Board - Digital Signage Solutions for creating directory boards

Launched Digital Wayfinding - Digital Wayfinding website

Launched Cloud Smart and Workplace Solutions - promoting Cloud Smart  and Worksplace Solutions

Achieved the ICS2 Cybersecurity Certificate from ICS2

Achieved the Salesforce AI Associate from Salesforce

Achieved the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified AI Foundations Associated, Generative AI Professional, Data Science Professional