Technician
Background
Many customers ask about my experience so
here is a brief...
I’ve been repairing TVs (and other consumer type
electronics) since 1995 but I started out with my first real
electronics
experience in 1985 serving in the USAF as an Avionics bench tech
repairing
Radar and ECM components in FB111As like this.
The people I served with were absolutely some of
the best I
have ever known and I am fortunate to have served with them.
Later I served in the
USAFR as a Comm Nav specialist maintaining these.
During this time, I participated in Hurricane Hugo
relief
efforts and Desert Shield. I returned to the inactive reserve and was
honorably
discharged in 1993.
Went
to local SCC in 1992 through 1993 studying
Electronics
and Computer Engineering while doing part time IT/networking for a
Cherokee
based company. Put college on pause for an IT specialist job
maintaining around
250 of these 
for a
Greenville based engineering firm. Unfortunately, 90% of this was
providing
internal tech
support instead of 'fixing stuff'. Spent the next year or so doing
software development for a
personal
project. In 1995, moved into my current specialty repairing consumer
electronics, primarily TVs, expecting it to be a temporary
job. After 5 years, I began subcontracting to an
additional 2nd repair shop. My wife and I opened our own shop in 2001.
