In 2001, a crack technology unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as nerds of fortune. If you have a problem... if no one else can help... and if you can find them... maybe you can hire... Feedwire.

R. Damien Clark, Macintosh Consultant, opened its very unofficial doors in 1998. Most clients were individuals, but individuals including Herbie Hancock and Alan Kay. After working through Evolution Film & Tape on the first seasons of Big Brother and Fear Factor, R. Damien Clark picked up its first production clients in 2001. Feedwire incorporated in its present incarnation in 2002. Since then its client base has expanded steadily, mostly attracting clients in reality and specials production.

Damien’s background in geekery is vast. He started with a screwdriver and a dishwasher at five. Curious about the dishwasher’s inner workings, he disassembled the dishwasher entirely. It never worked again. By seven or so, the reverse process began to work out and machines went back together as easily as they came apart. 1984 and a father with a new job at Apple brought the Macintosh into Damien’s life. The two have been inseparable ever since.

What can I say? I’ve been taking things apart and figuring out how they work from a young age, but I’m sure most nerds can recall similar events that started it all.

Like many before me, I moved to LA for creative interests, but fell back on my education and established career as an IT professional. I came across a Craigslist ad that said, “IT Nerd Rockstar Wanted”. Uh… you rang??? I couldn’t have written it better myself so I interviewed for Feedwire in a small apartment on Venice beach with the promise of great things. When I started in 2009, there were 3 nerds, now there are 20 and our client portfolio and services have taken new heights. Whether it was the lone producer with the dead MacBook Pro burning the midnight oil in their LA apartment or helping a large business find innovative ways to leverage IT and support for the long haul, we made it happen and here we are in a blink. I have always strived to provide the white glove experience that Feedwire was founded on. Treating clients like family, listening and solving problems has built trust and lasting relationships.

My interests outside of work? Well, I’m a self-help junky, always looking for ways to improve and learn a new skill. I’m also a DIY nut taking on remodeling jobs in my house one tool and YouTube video at a time. Did I mention I have a Big Fat Greek Family? Yep, just like the movie and the reason for moving my family of 5 back to Ohio. I never thought I would leave my dear LA, but still travel and support amazing customers remotely every day.

Joshua is a ten million year old demon inhabiting a mortal body that has been kept alive for over a thousand years through dark magic. Condemned to his flesh prison by a medieval wizard in 938 AD, he must wander the earth repairing technology until the planets align following the coming of the Magnificent and Malevolent K’thrant during the great Fire Purge. Joshua lives with his wife in Palms and enjoys crossword puzzles and board games.

Growing up, Johnny subsisted on a healthy diet of technology, puzzles, and the natural intersection of the two: video games. Little did he know, he was developing skills that would serve him well on the journey of his life.

While studying Linguistics across the country, Johnny was inadvertently sucked into a wormhole and transported to a foreign world. Trapped in a sunless dimension, he had no choice but to solve computer problems, fix printers, and win arbitrary video game competitions in order to power the eldritch devices used to hop from plane to plane.  After eons of aimless teleporting, he finally returned to his native land of Santa Monica. He is now free to do what he wants with his own life… which is to go back to solving technology related puzzles and play video games, while taking particular care to avoid the sun.

James is a Southern Gentleman through and through. Growing up in rural Virginia he didn’t have much exposure to computers, but a garage full of telephone equipment was his playground. In college James discovered the computer lab (cue the Weird Science theme song), it’s possibilities, and all things tech have inspired him ever since. 

The bulk of his career was at Virginia Tech before relocating to LA, where he worked at UCLA and Pepperdine, before finding Feedwire.

James is a scuba instructor, a whiz at Twitter freebies, and does not own a selfie stick

Originally from Hawaii, Stephen came to California in search of better opportunities. After working for an electronics manufacturer, he fell into networking when the company decided to replace all of their equipment with new Cisco equipment. He learned firewalls, switches, wireless, and Cisco Call Manager. He took these skills to other MSPs and learned how to better manage those technologies as well as Windows Server.

He met Damien at a mutual client during a network reconfiguration project that required some special networking requirements and was sold on Feedwire. He later joined Feedwire.

 When not working, Stephen is a busy dad of a toddler boy and has 3 dogs.

Brett was born in LA at a young age. After that accomplishment, as well as a few others, he had quite a varied series of careers: a red carpet event and nightclub promoter, an audio engineer, a commercial real estate salesperson, a voiceover artist, and, finally, an IT nerd.

Before joining the team at Feedwire, Brett owned and operated his own one-man MSP, running around Los Angeles like a madman saving the IT day for multiple businesses and individuals. After 7 years of flying solo, Brett sought a team to work with and learn from (and keep him sane). After a grueling search for the right team of nerds to join, he found Feedwire in 2019 and hasn’t looked back.

Brett is the proud dad of a 6-year-old benevolent little she-monster named Beau and a dog named Chloe who looks like a character out of The Dark Crystal. He also likes bourbon - just sayin’.

It started for Gordon with his third-grade teacher Mrs. Yamada recommending he read The Hobbit and then it lay dormant for twenty years until he almost lost a term paper to ransomware. His thirst for Nerding was reawakened like a ring kept from its master.

Like a Shounen anime hero, Gordon joined the Feedwire team in 2020 to increase his power level after spending several years doing helpdesk and planning IT services for retail locations. His special moves include the Shining Finger (of Forced Shutdown), Shoryuken, Whirling Blade (Server), and Reading the Documentation.

 Ask him what he’s reading.

Joshua is a native Angeleno. He got his first Apple IIc, put it together and had it up and running before his mother could finish reading the instructions. School took him down a path of film, photography and carpentry where he planned on going into construction until a friend said “Hey, you want a job in a computer store” and he never looked back (although he’s one hell of a handyman). 

 He’s worked in a small computer store, had his own 1-man business, worked at other MSP’s and for companies with offices around the world before landing at Feedwire. Here he’s found an awesome crew of Nerds that do amazing work, and he’s not just saying that because he works there. 

Joshua is a friend of Bill, a proud father of 2 incredible boys, husband to wonderful wife and has a short-haired pointer with waaaaay to much energy. Anyone know where the energy-level knob is on a dog?

An automaton originally manufactured in El Salvador. Maria starts as the most advanced Android model in its series programmed to provide tech support to mankind. She eventually develops a true sense of self and learns how beautiful this world is through cognition derived from her makers; their literature, music, video games and social constructs.

In her early sentient years, she transferred her data to a new and upgraded shell in Seattle, where she acquired new accounting software. Maria continued to provide support to humans by managing their Operations, but the coldness of Seattle did not compute and thus traded it for the warmth of sunny LA, its beaches and the feeling of sand affecting her locomotion.

The core value of Integrity is ingrained into her CPU which makes her a genuine and very reliable Android.

Paul is an experienced Information Technology engineer with a history of providing the IT solutions needed for success. While Paul hails from Washington state, the trail of shiny silicon lead him to Los Angeles California to work with the brightest nerds in the industry.

When Paul's family purchased their first computer, he couldn't fathom how computers could communicate with each other using a tiny cable connected to an internet modem. Thinking about how it worked kept him up at night, and unlike many kids in his age group, Paul knew that feeling of burning curiosity towards tech would stick with him throughout life.

On Paul's 18th birthday he got his first IT job as a Systems Administrator in the public sector. While that job gave him a good taste of what the IT industry felt like, he wanted more risk, responsibility, and the opportunity to work with larger customers. After graduating college with his Associates degree in Computer Networking Administration at 19 years old, Paul moved to Spokane Washington to further his career as a Network Operations Engineer. After talking with client stakeholders about how he proposed to fix impending IT issues, he really understood not only the technical side of IT but the business side of IT as well.

From the sweltering hot server closet to the board room full of tiny Fiji water bottles, Paul has the ability to discover business pain points, provide solutions to mitigate risk, and increase employee productivity by implementing the right IT tools to enable growth for his partners.

I’ve loved technology since I was taking apart my parent’s IBM AT as a kid and putting it back together. With my travels in a technology career, I’m happy to be back at an MSP and bringing my unique background with me.

Understanding evolution, the characteristic that has separated homo-sapiens from all other apes and animals is our ability to imagine, communicate and accept stories and concepts without witnessing it with our own two eyes. That’s where my love of science fiction comes from. Imagining a world without discrimination. Without a need for money. Where your own desire to contribute to society can be your “life function” instead of greed (capitalism). There isn’t anything wrong with capitalism, per se. It’s end goal just isn’t to produce a functioning society. To that end, the Daoist belief in the diversity of ideas will ultimately allow the truth of “nature” to be revealed. Chapter 11 of the Dao De Jing says, 

“Hollowed out

clay makes a pot.

Where the pot’s

not is where it’s useful.

… So the profit in what is

is in the use of what isn’t.”

I spend my spare time hacking humanity. In the meantime, what technology (clay pot) can I hack together for you?

Bay Area Nerd

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Erik moved down to Southern California for school. After graduating UCI back in the day, Erik decided to stay due to the better selection of food and things to do in Southern California. After eating sushi one day, he realized that if he can build a computer, he can fix other people's tech problems. So, after a bit of studying, he joined the MSP world.

If Erik isn’t busy fixing stuff, you could find him either climbing at a local climbing gym or rock, stuffing his face at some KBBQ or AYCE sushi joint, wandering at some random concert, or sleeping on his couch. If you need a top rope partner or a printer fixed, he’s got you.

Always looking for challenges. Father of two cats.

Someone famous once said, did turning it off and turning it back on fix it?

Nerd, MBA

I can’t say that I knew from a young age that technology was a passion of mine. Although, being my mom’s personal IT consultant just about my whole life should have been a sign of where I would end up.

Here is how my technology journey started… While completing my BA in Psychology, I stumbled upon an on campus job at my alma mater’s IT department. This is where I found my true calling- providing computers with the therapy they need to work properly. What was suppose to be a temporary job turned into my passion. After seven years in Higher Education, I found Feedwire! Or maybe Feedwire found me?

I completed my MBA with a 4 year old and a 2 year old, and survived. Talk about being an organized risk taker! Can’t say I did it all on my own. I did have some help from my husband and family. Now that I finished the program and have free time I like to binge Netflix shows, play board games, and enjoy spending time with my two little ones.