His industry experience commenced in 1976 with a programmer position at Sutherland Shire Council (Sydney) followed by Grace Brothers Stores (Sydney, now part of the Coles Myer group). This was followed by short and mid-length contract analyst programming assignments in USA, England and Germany.
Anysize was formed to provide consulting services in Australia in 1985.
Promoting International Trade with Electronic Commerce, specifically
innovations to Letters of
Credit, Bills of Lading and other traditional trade documentation. Promoting Electronic Commerce in Small & Medium Sized Enterprises
Information Visualisation
Co-operative
business
Publications:
Liu, F., Dixon, M.
& Murphy, J. 2002, 'Exploring
Online Buying and Online Trust in China' in Zwick, R. and Ping, T. (eds.),
Asia Pacific Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. V, 2003.
Letch, N. & Dixon, M. eds. 2001, Proceedings of the 4th Western Australian
Workshop on Information Systems Research, (WAWISR).
Liu,
F. Dixon, M. & Lee, G. 2001, 'Communication Media and Trust Building in the Chinese Online Buying
Context', Proceedings
of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) Conference 2001,
December 3-5, Aukland, New Zealand.
Dixon, M. & Bauer,
C.
2000, 'Emerging Electronic Systems for International Trade', Proceedings
of the fifth CollECTeR Conference on Electronic Commerce, December 13-14,
Brisbane, Q.
Dixon, M. & Bauer,
C.
2000, 'Towards a Generic Model of Electronic International Trade Systems', Proceedings
of the eleventh Australasian Conference on Information Systems, December
6-7, Brisbane, Q.
Dixon, M. 2000, 'Electronic
Commerce Systems for International Trade', Australasian Conference on
Information Systems Doctoral Consortium, December 5, Brisbane, Q.
Dixon, M. & Bauer,
C.
2000, 'A model for comparing electronic international trade systems', Proceedings
of the third Western Autralian Workshop on Information Systems Research 2000,
November, Edith Cowan University, Perth.
Dixon, M. 2000, 'International
Money Movement', e-mmerce, June.
Dixon, M. 1999, 'Streamlining
international trade payments', International Workshop on Transaction-based
Electronic Commerce 1999, Curtin University, Perth.
Dixon, M. & Glasson,
B. 1999, 'Electronic Payment Systems for International Trade', Western
Australian Workshop on Information Systems Research 1999, Murdoch
University, Perth.
Dixon, M. 1999, 'Digital
Cash', Prometheus, Book Review, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 470-471.
Mark Dixon formed and coordinates
Anysize Software, a business which provides software development services to the Perth and international markets. Over
30 consultants service clients such as
IBM Global Services, Water
Corporation, Motorola, Western Power, Alinta
Gas, BOC (formerly
CIG), Nestlé, Challenge
Bank, and several others. The group operates like a cooperative, offering equal ownership and an equal voice to participating consultants. The fledgling group began in 1985 and has grown steadily. 
