This is a list of our original founding members.
For a full members list, visit the forum and click on the members button.
Alexander Blake
Site Admin and Founder
Owner of www.MichianaComputers.net a computer repair shop in Niles, Michigan.
Alex was inspired by his father at a young age to work with computers, he first started using a computer at 5 years old.
He built his first computer by himself at 10 years old. He was the I.T manager for a local pet store Ewerts Pets in which he was in charge of
networking, computer repairs, implementing a point of sale system and a computerized video survillence system.
Alex apprenticed under a local computer technician for 2 years before deciding to start his own business repairing PC’s.
Alex is responsible for most of the technical management of PCbiz.org
George Blake
Site Admin and Founder
George started working on computers in 1980. His first computer was the TRS-80. He learned electronics in the Marine Corps where he was a ground
radio electronic technician for 4 years. He was an Aviation Electronics Technician for 6 years working on F4 jet aircraft and Harriers.
George has a Bachelors Degree in Technical Management from Southern Illinois University and a Masters Degree from the University of Southern California
in Systems Management. He was a database programmer on a consulting assignment with Hughes Aircraft and was a consultant to General Motors when he worked at Electronic Data Systems.
George was also the IT manager for a manufacturing plant in Douglas Arizona. He had two programmers that worked for him but fixed the computers himself, including HP Mini computers.
George is Executive Director of www.deadPC.org a non profit organization for computer recycling in Niles, Michigan, South Bend, Indiana, and surrounding areas.
His personal website is www.GeorgeBlake.com
Shaun Pleickhardt
Site Admin
President of www.AdvancedComputerGroupInc.com A NYC I.T Consulting Firm
Shaun created his company with the model for success. Before the inception of Advanced Computer Group, Mr. Pleickhardt worked for many years at major corporations, and eventually went solo as a sub-contractor. After seeing how customers were mistreated, Mr. Pleickhardt decided to launch his own company and change the way people and businesses alike perceived Information Technology and IT specialists in general. Advanced Computer Group, Inc. offers a very wide array of Information Technology services for businesses. They provide Licensed, Certified, and Insured services at a very competitive rate.
Advanced Computer Group, Inc also specializes in Network Security and Linux/UNIX technoligies.
Their Linux division can be found at www.NYClinux.com
Justin Royce
Full Member
Justin is the owner of Protocol16, a computer repair and consulting business in Portland, Oregon. Justin has worked for large corporations and the government throughout his IT career. Like others on PCBiz.org, Justin decided to start his business after watching how customers were treated by other companies. He maintains a Enterprise Content Management blog as well as a Windows Server 2008 blog in his off time.
Larry Sabo
Full Member
Larry is a semi-retired electrical engineer with decades of experience in the computer industry.
He is the owner of Sabo Computer Repairs in Ottawa, Canada. Sabo Computer Repairs has been providing computer repairs to Ottawa-area residents and small businesses since 2001, having evolved from Sabo Monitor Repairs which started in 1997. His computer experience includes techincal and management positions at IBM Canada, Digital Equipment of Canada, and private sector and federal government computer consulting, programming and EDP services organizations. He has also served on the national board of directors of The Canadian Information Processing Society and the executive of its Ottawa chapter. Larry holds a diploma in Electronics Engineering Technology. He also earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and a Master of Businss Administration degree from the University of Ottawa.
Philip Berry
Full Member
Philip grew up surrounded by electronics. He learned the fundamentals of electronic troubleshooting while working in his father’s television repair shop. Philip joined the United States Air Force and was assigned to the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team in which he designed electronic circuits and devices as training aids for team members to practice on instead of the real improvised explosive devices that they would later encounter on the battlefield. While most training was self taught, he did however find the time to enroll in electronics technology training courses both in the class room and via correspondence. After retirement from the Air Force, Philip went to work as a telephone system technician and was soon promoted to the Operations Manager of the company. Now he is the proud owner of the ITG Tech Group LLC, the company which formally employed him, located in Panama City Florida.
Rob Locati
Full Member
Rob Locati has been a proud geek most of his life and wrote his first computer program in 1981 at the age of 13. His formal training is as a programmer with a Bachelors in Computer Science from WSU (go Cougs) in 1990. He has extensive programming and technical support experience from his many years in the computer trenches at IBM and Chevron. This was followed by about 7 years of programming / web design / technical support work at a few different private sector companies as both a full-time employee and an independent contractor. Rob founded Geeks in Khakis in 2003 with the mission of serving the home / small business computer user with ‘exceptional service at reasonable rates’.
Website: http://www.geeksinkhakis.net
Jason Disbrow
Full Member
Jason is the owner of JRD Tech LLC, a computer service and repair company serving the shore region of New Jersey. Founded in June 2007, JRD Tech LLC has grown into one of the most trusted and reliable computer service businesses in the area. Jason passion and knowledge of computers began at a very young age 7 when he received his first computer, a Tandy 1000EX Intel 8088 based computer. Within days Jason had his new computer apart and was tinkering with it’s guts, upgrading it’s memory to the max 640kB. In the roughly 20 years since Jason has diagnosed thousands of computer issues and configured almost a hundred computers. JRD Tech LLC serves residential and small business customers. JRD Tech LLC repairs all computer related issues, if your computer is slow or acting strange we’ll diagnosis and solve the problem. JRD Tech LLC also specializes in laptop repairs (LCD screen and dc power jack) and data recovery.
