Who is the Cheap Geek?

My name is David Reed, and I am the Cheap Geek.

David Reed and the Cheap Geek Truck

Gadgets and technology have always intrigued me. From the first time I started up our family's first computer in 1995, I was hooked.  Tinkering has been a part of my family's history for as long as I can remember.  My grandpa was a carpenter who could build out of wood, my dad was a car mechanic who could fix anything that had wheels, and I broke all of my battery powered toys in the quest to satisfy my curiosity about how they worked.

As I grew up, my ratio of broken to fixed toys started to shift toward the latter.  Christmas of '95, my parents bought our first computer for nearly $3000.  The 75mhz Pentium processor, 4mb of ram and 1gb hard drive left most of my friends quite jealous.  This beast of a machine was the start of my obsession with computers.

From that point on, my dad and I started tinkering with computers. We would buy them from garage sales, collect them from friends, and even picked them out of people's trash the day after Christmas just so we could Frankenstein them together. We would then network a bunch of them together, invite some people from church over (including the pastor sometimes), and play Half Life.  Of course I was the best, but my dad wasn't too bad either. When I went to college I helped fix my friends computers and helped them get rid of their viruses.  From college I was hired to work in a radio station as their Program Manager, however, this position quickly expanded to IT Director, Web Master, Graphic Designer, Network Engineer, and Coffee Getter (Rick's Coffee: Double strength coffee, 2 Splendas, 1 rounded teaspoon of Coffee Mate Creamer in a hot coffee mug). 

Working in the radio station pushed me into new areas of technology.  As my skills matured, more and more friends, friends of friends, and near strangers began bringing me their computers to fix.  What started as a favor quickly expanded into a hobby then into a nearly full time job.  Just for fun I chose a name for my business just so I could have something to call my side job.  In the beginning I never charged very much to fix computers so I jokingly called myself the "Cheap Geek".  That name stuck and when I filled out the paper work for my business license I wrote Cheap Geek PC on the business name line officially making me "The Cheap Geek".

Eventually, I left the station and went full time into Cheap Geek PC.  I found that my skill set fits perfectly with the needs of nearly all churches and small businesses.  Most of my business is still fixing a nearly never ending supply of broken, infected, and obsolete computers, however, my favorite jobs are building websites.  As the economy hits more and more businesses, there is a great need for IT professionals but most businesses cannot afford to have a full time IT staff.  That's where I come in.  Working full time as the Cheap Geek has allowed me to give churches and small businesses a part time IT staff.

The future of Cheap Geek is bright.  My wonderful wife has become my PR and Social Media director and is learning my accounting software. My soon to be 4 year old son is learning the trade and is eager to help Daddy as much as he can.  My 2 year old son likes to write on my invoices and hide my CDs when Daddy isn't looking. The whole family has pulled together to make Cheap Geek PC the best personal care IT company around. We aren't concerned with just your business we are concerned about  helping you get the most out of the tech you have.