Johnny B. Fears

President,
Company Operations

Johnny is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and earned a B.M. in Music. Johnny served as a band director for Tupelo Public Schools from 1988-1998.  

Johnny's interests include drums and percussion, NASCAR, Genealogy, and music. He served on the Board of Directors for BINaRE for two years, and is the past president for the Northeast Mississippi Netware User’s Group.

Chase

Technical Services,
Programming & Automation

Chase graduated from Itawamba Community College in Computer Programming Technology and Computer Networking Technology.

Chase is A+ certified and has studied a little bit of everything in the IT field, though networking and repair have always been his strong points.

Chase enjoys movies, music, literature, and video games.

Michael

Web Director, Technical Services,
Graphic Design & Video Production

Michael graduated from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, Mississippi State University ( BS, Electrical Engineering ), and the University of South Florida ( MS, Electrical Engineering ) with a focus on emerging materials semiconductor devices.  He has presented research in the US, France, Germany, and Japan, and played blues in the UK and the Netherlands.

Michael is A+ certified, and has been building web sites since the early days of Mosaic, integrating improvements in functionality and infrastructure as they develop.

Michael enjoys reading, traveling, playing drums and guitar, multimedia production, programming, building Arduino, BeagleBoard, Raspberry Pi, etc. based projects and robots, and general tinkering.

Michael and his girlfriend support Warm Fuzzy’s Cat Rescue in various ways, and his girlfriend maintains and writes content for their website. They have three rescued cats, one rescued hampster, one rescued tiny three-legged frog, many fish, and a bamboo plant.

Mike

Technical Services

Mike graduated from Oxford High School, continuing his education at the University of Mississippi where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He is A+ certified as well.

He has several interests, including music ( a trumpet player both at heart and in action ) and electronics. At present, his electronics projects are based around the Pandaboard with an emphasis in mobile robotics and environmental sensing.

For a welcome distraction, his home computer is also a quite capable gaming machine. For quiet evenings, he prefers to read ( Pet Peeve #114: "Really? What are you doing reading? It's Saturday night!" ) and he has found that his Kindle Paperwhite has greatly amplified his enjoyment of such activity.

Kristi

Office Manager

Kristi has lived in Tupelo for over 30 years, and has more than 10 years of experience in warranty recovery and clerical fields.

Her hobbies are camping, boating, swimming, softball, crafts ( candle-making ), and she has a daughter named Emily.