Name: Nick

Birthplace: Suwanee, Georgia, 1985

Georgia born and raised, Nick has had a passion for computing devices since age 6, when he received his first Apple IIe. With the addiction started, his fascination of computers bloomed into a continued insatiable desire to learn more about computer technology. Along that path, like many computer obsessed teens in the late nineties, he fell in love with computer gaming and the LAN party scene. Since then, Nick has been involved with the planning and running of several Atlanta area LAN parties. Nick states, “Everyone in the gaming scene at Brookwood High School would group up over the weekend for our weekly LAN party. We threw one heck of a party!”

Obsessed with computer networks, Nick went on to compete in the 2004 competition for Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) in network design. His team placed second in state. He went on to work several odd jobs here and there until Cyber Wurx welcomed him to the team.

Nick currently lives in Lawrenceville and can be found playing the latest games in his free time.

Name: Kyle
Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, 1979

Born in New Orleans but raised in the Atlanta area, Kyle was fascinated by electronics from the moment he could hold a screwdriver. Because of this, any electronic toy, appliance, or computer in the house was in imminent danger of being disassembled. The current status of the device was irrelevant, it could be plugged into an outside outlet during a thunderstorm and it would still be at risk. Due to a sharp ability to solve problems, a few minor emergencies resulted in the development of some reasonably safe electronic modification practices. This new-found ability to not die began a passion for serious hardware modifications to various electronics and developing a broader understanding of circuits.

Eventually Kyle fell in love with his family’s Commodore 64. As he grew accustomed to the welcoming brown keys, he also became its repairman. Through several hardware modifications, including thermal dissipation improvements and power regulation hacks, the beloved family friend long outlived its expected life-span. This enabled him to spend long hours improving himself by writing Basic programs and playing Karateka.

Kyle received his first IBM PC (A 486 DX/33) at the ripe young age of 13, and quickly fell in love again. After spending hours reading technical manuals, he would regale his family with in-depth explanations of the nature of the 640k DOS lower-memory limit and the methods by which the operating system’s designers worked around it. Largely uninterested in the subject but supportive of education, his parents were more than happy to encourage his new-found love of software. They also saw great benefit in software’s inability to explode or electrocute.

In 2004, Kyle finally escaped the horrors of fast-food management in favor of part-time work on the sunny shores of Linux administration with Cyber Wurx. Within a few months, he was a full-time employee, and has since become a senior technician. Kyle is currently responsible for several junior techs as well as overseeing the daytime technical support operations for Cyber Wurx.

Kyle lives in the Atlanta area with his wife, a veterinary technician. They share a house with a small army of cats and dogs. In his spare time, he plays bass guitar in a successful local band. In the event he has any additional time, he usually plays video games or in very extreme cases, does housework.

Name: Aaron
Birthplace: Flint Michigan, 1983

Born in the home of the Industrial Revolution, Aaron moved to the Atlanta Metropolitan area in 1996, narrowly escaping a life of oil, gasoline, and unemployment. Concentrating his education on computer science, Aaron decided to change focus to system administration when he realized that he enjoyed small scale scripting over large project and application development. With 10+ years of hardware, and administrative experience in multiple environments (Microsoft, Mac, Linux), Aaron has become a valuable asset to Cyberwurx’s administration team. He is currently working on his Cisco Certifications.