Blackboot Technology

1984

Bryan first started working on computers at 9 years old when his father purchased one of the original Apple Macintosh computers (with 128K of memory and 1 floppy drive). He took it apart at 10, upgraded multiple times, mixing and matching parts, crashing it, breaking it and fixing it, and by 12 he was fixing other people’s computers. He hasn’t stopped since!

1989

He was 14 when his mother started a graphic design firm and that led to supporting and working with other designers, printers and publishers in the Augusta, Georgia area for the next 6 years, building networks, servers, backup systems, high-end workstations for graphic design and print production, and prepress workflow. He worked in print production at Claffey Printing, helped start and operate a graphic arts service bureau, managed a night shift crew of prepress production technicians and ran out of challenges.