Bryant: The Life Deconfusifyer
Bryant’s bio info:
Bryant has always loved science. In high school, he figured out how to electroplate silverware and make rather explosive model rockets. At UVA, he studied Cognitive Science and found the idea of artificial intelligence not only intriguing, but a soon-to-be-realized reality. Bryant began to spend lots of spare time tinkering with and modifying computers. He never stopped. This hobby bloomed into what is now Quick Fix. Bryant’s long and diverse background of computer fixing added to his attention to detail and drive to be the absolute best, gives him the practical experience and character he needs to be a superb geek.
What Bryant does:
Bryant is often on the road. He visits businesses and homes of people all around Charlottesville. His largest customer is a business with four offices. One in North Carolina and three in Virginia. They can all be maintained remotely. His smallest customer is a grandmother that was half-way forced into using a computer by her children. She hated it. Bryant started by showing her how to turn it on. By the end of the lesson… she thought it was ‘quite cool’. Bryant is skilled in troubleshooting software and hardware and can setup networks so that they work cleanly, quickly and efficiently. If you schedule a tech to come to your home or business. Bryant will be the guy you meet.
I really love my job. It makes me feel like I just cleaned out a garage or something... everything hanging on the proper hook, clean, organized. It's also great to leave a place and have the people say, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you!' Customers give me and Marty cookies and cake and all sorts of stuff. I really appreciate our customer's gratitude and I know Marty does too.
Bryant Harrison
Marty: The Virus Kickbuttinator
Marty’s bio info:
Marty has been professionally engaged for over 25 years with a broad diversity of custom scientific programming activities. These activities have focused on developing computer-based computational applications to assist life science research. Over his career, he has advanced his education to the highest levels, and has worked in a number of life science research settings. At the present time, he continues this involvement through his own private consulting practice. However, as a complement to those activities, his long-standing enjoyment of computer-related interests led him to establish his close relationship with Bryant, currently working together with him at Quick Fix.
What Marty does:
There is no one better at recovering data from a sick hard drive, nor at repairing even the most-corrupted of hard disk file systems, nor at resurrecting even the most horribly-infected PC. But, if the extensive “bag of tricks” he’s developed over the years turns out to be insufficient for repairing your sick PC (or Mac), he knows how to set-up a computer system, from the ground up, both hardware and software, to run far better than even when it was new. But, perhaps most importantly, he will always shoot straight with you, no matter the circumstance. He’ll straight-forwardly go over all available options with you, and, on those unfortunate occasions when necessary, he’ll honestly break the bad news to you if it’s just plain time for a new computer. He always operates with an eye toward the most economical and value-maximizing path to get you, and your computer, back on track. He is someone you can absolutely rely on to give you the best possible advice, always.
I’m fortunate to have been given opportunities in life to do many of the things I most enjoy doing. I’m also fortunate to be pretty good at many of them. The challenges associated with problem-solving have long driven my life-interests, and I continue to be challenged in interesting ways now, with what I do with Bryant, at Quick Fix. I’m a perfectionist ... some say, to a fault. But a reward for being so is the satisfaction of a job well done, as well as appreciation from those whom I’ve helped. I’m proud to say that Bryant and I only know one way to do a job, and that’s 'Right!'
Marty Straume
What we do: We make stuff work and we do it well.
Popular Mechanics used our 15pt cleanup process to speed up one of their old, slow computers.
We sent them a brief, 3 page response about our in-shop 15-pt scrub and the great results we get when we use it. Popular Mechanics called us back and told us that after they did what we suggested, not only did their machine boot up much quicker, but it also performed twice as fast as before! They decided to use us as the main contact for the article. Woo hoo!
The columnist, Erin, emailed us this great compliment from the editor:
Hi Bryant,
Again, thank you so much. You are a great source for this story — as our senior editor said today after giving the piece a read, “So this guy really knows his stuff!”
Erin
Popular Mechanics Magazine
The senior editor of Popular Mechanics Magazine commenting on how we “really know our stuff” is about the best feeling a computer geek can have!
Read that article here: “How to Make Your Computer Boot Faster”.
Click here to read what we sent Popular Mechanics: 3Page PDF
We don’t just fix computers, we organize and simplify life.
If your computer is broken, if your network is flaky, if your DATA is lost, if your Blue-Ray player has no sound; it doesn’t matter what it is, we will make it work well or we’ll not charge you a dime. This is just fair. We setup systems that synchronize data across multiple computers, Blackberries, iPhones and laptops and allow you to update and check your email, calendar, tasks, address book from anywhere in the world. We also tutor beginners that need us to show them how to turn on their computer. We make technology reliable, easy and fun.
Are you a business?
You don’t want to see your tech guy every week…
… and you don’t have to. We specialize in building as close to maintenance-free solutions as you can get. If you have a broken computer, we will not only fix your computer, we’ll make it run quickly and smoothly. If you need a website, just let us show you how we update and manage our website. If you can type a document in Microsoft Word, you can manage a website or teach others how. Let us show you how to synchronize your life and work from home. It can be so easy.
You know that everything should just work without the headache.
IT CAN! Call us. We specialize in putting all the little pieces together in a clean, crisp, organized package. We have done this for end users and businesses alike, over and over again.
Dealing with a tight budget?
We have many flat-fee low cost services that are very economical. See our services page.
Need a fix NOW?
We have priority and emergency service. We can get your computer fixed or your network repaired today.
GUARANTEE: If we can’t fix it, you don’t pay.
Even if your computer has been struck by lightning, run over by a car and used by a teenager; we can help you with our ‘Here-take-my-computer’ loan system. It’s FREE! If it turns out that your fix-it solution is more expensive that a new computer, we’ll tell you the sad truth, give you purchasing tips for your new machine and not charge you a dime. Of course, usually we can fix it for much cheaper than a new system.
