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Jonn Berg
Hi, I am Jonn Berg, founder and owner of Tech Rescue. We have offered expert computer service and consulting since 2001!
I was born sometime in 1976 to a father and a mother and spent the first part of my life in Bloomington, MN and Eagan, MN. I have one younger sister named Miranda. The summer between 2nd and 3rd grade found us moving to Park Rapids, MN. My dad is a retired Minnesota State Trooper and when my parents got married, they decided that within 10 years they were going to live in northern Minnesota. It was in middle school that I started playing hockey again. This time I was playing goalie, rather than defense and I liked it much better. I played all the way though the end of high school, except in 10th grade because I had a coach that was a jerk that year. After high school, I went to Bethel College (now Bethel University) for a year. I majored in Computer Science. The next few years I spent in Bemidji until I got an internship for USFilter. USFilter was the parent company of Culligan. So in a way, I was a Culligan Man! After my internship was over, I was offered a full-time job at USFilter. I spent almost 3 years there. I then went to work at Electronics for Imaging. EFI is a company that makes hardware and software for the printing industry. If you have ever heard of a Fiery or PrintMe (installed with Adobe Acrobat now-a-days), then you may have heard of EFI. I got hired to support the PrintMe product. It was fun, at least, while it lasted, because, yep, you guessed it – I got layed off again! That’s 3 times in a little over 6 months now. I figured that that was 3 strikes, so I ought to do something else. I had a couple of friends from Bemidji State that were in the Twin Cities with me and we had heard enough complaints about other major computer repair companies and how they were not well liked, that we decided to try to do something about it. We started a consulting company called Tech Rescue. The first couple of years went really well. By the end of the third year, the bottom had dropped out of the consulting boom and while we were staying afloat (we never had a month of red-ink the whole time), we weren’t getting anywhere. The Geek Squad had been purchased by Best Buy, so they had tremendously deep pockets and they appeared to buy out most of our bigger clients, even though upwards of 60% of Tech Rescue’s clients had originally left the Geek Squad. On a different note, I had been going to this great church in White Bear Lake for the last few years and my spiritual growth was soaring! I was the leader of a wonderful small group. I volunteered as a security guard at Club 3 Degrees, a Christian night-club in Minneapolis. I was gaining all kinds of great new friends and I had met a beautiful, wonderful young woman named Rebecca who is now my wife! She didn’t know it at the time we met, in fact it took almost 3 years for her to realize this. Sometime in 2005 while on a project in Kansas City, I got a call from the Minnesota Department of Human Services. It seems that they found my resume and they wanted me to come in for an interview. I was working on a contract for Merril Corporation at the time and I was getting shipped down to Kansas City for training on the day that they wanted me to come in. I got it re-scheduled and they liked me the best out of everyone that interviewed. After a couple of weeks, I got the job offer. I had quite a decision to make. Should I decline it and keep working and trying to make Tech Rescue fly, or should I take the job and relegate Tech Rescue to the off-hours. I took the job and I have been a Senior Systems Engineer for the State of Minnesota IT Services (MN.IT Services). I am still working with Tech Rescue and we are finding new clients every year. I have a lot of experience with computers and technology, including HTML, PHP, MySQL, Operating Systems (Windows 3.1 through Vista including the Server versions, Mac OS 6 through OS X, Linux, BeOS, etc), hardware (I have built every computer that I have owned, except laptops, since 1995), and lots of third party software administration. My Wife and I have two children and live Forest Lake with our three horses (Cricket, Cowboy and Carmel) and dog (Missy). This has been my wife's dream since she was a little girl and we have both really enjoyed it so far. We are still pretty active in Eaglebrook Church by facilitating Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace classes. We also are part of a great small group bible study! Tech Rescue is still going strong, mainly on nights and weekends now. We had the largest sales year in 2011 and we seem to be getting known as one of the top tier consultants. My parents still live in the "North Woods", in a beautiful house on a lake near Park Rapids. My dad retired from the State Patrol after nearly thirty years and my mom works as a Media Specialist in Farmington and has authored a number of children's books about Marion the Hedgehog. You may be thinking that Park Rapids and Farmington are a distance away and you would be right. With that in mind, they bought a "cabin" down in Eagan to live in while school is in session, at least until my mom retires. My sister and her family also live in Park Rapids and are determining the logistics of becoming missionaries to Uganda. My Wife's sister got married this summer and is trying to decide what she wants to do while her new husband engineers electricity all day. God has really provided for me and my family. It is hard to ask for anything more at this point, we have been really blessed. As for the rest of what I do... I still play hockey every so ofton. I also try to play volleyball in the summer. I have been known to be a pretty good catcher in softball, which is where I hit my first homerun ever a few years ago. It also happened to be a grand slam! I love to read and play video games, sometimes way too much! When given the chance, I have been known to go hiking and camping. And most of all, I try to be a great husband father to my wife and two children!