Featured Experts

FixYa really benefits from the enthusiasm of its Experts. One of our most enthusiastic Experts, Eagle338, has 1140 solutions and has spent over a year on our site. He’s already a FixYa veteran, but he’s actually only 21 years old.

Eagle338 is an information sciences student who describes himself as “overly enthusiastic” about gadgets. He describes his initial forays into technology as “purely experimental.” He has been into programming since he started learning Basic at age 7. He assembled his first PC at 14 and has fixed over 200 computers to date as a professional. Eagle338 is currently pursuing his TV and radio repair training and is able to fix household products with just a repair manual and his trusty multimeter. Eagle338 is also very enthusiastic about cell phones, and owns Motorola’s C130 and E398, Sony Ericsson’s J200i, J230i,W200i, and an iPhone 3G, making him particularly adept in the area of mobile repair.

One of Eagle338’s proudest moments on FixYa was a Chat where he helped an elderly man bring his printer back to life. The man typed very slowly due to an amputated arm, and the conversation took over 4 ½ hours to complete. But Eagle338 stayed the course and helped the man out, for which he was extremely grateful. The same goes for many of Eagle338’s Chat customers as his Chat record is one of the best around.

Mistersony may have only been on FixYa since October (with an amazing 91% average), but his 30 years of experience in the field speaks for itself. He started out working on audio equipment and repaired the first Sony Walkmans and CD players (the things we used to play music before iPods, for all you neophytes out there). He was inspired to go into audio because his father was a radio man in the South Pacific during WW2, and passed on his interest to his son. After that he got into TVs. He still dabbles in audio, and occasionally cell phones, but focuses mainly on TVs. He comes from a big family and their repair needs keep him very busy!

Besides his family, Mistersony is kept busy with his rescue dog, pictured above. She is a German Shepherd named Jingles. He also enjoys reading in whatever free time he can find.

While many of our Experts attended technical schools or received on-the-job training to learn their trade, others are self-taught. J_del is one of those Experts who took it upon themselves to learn their craft. He was inspired to start learning how to work on cars after a service job done by his Nissan dealership resulted in a massive failure. He decided that the money he was spending to have someone else fix his cars would be better spent on tools. From that point on, he read everything he could get his hands on regarding cars and their workings. When something went wrong with one of his vehicles, he just rolled up his sleeve and dug right in. Over the years he gained in knowledge and experience, to the point that he now feels comfortable handling most areas of auto repair and modification. He became such a success that FixYa actually recruited him when an employee saw his exemplary work on another site!

Time and time again, FixYa is reminded of what a talented, accomplished group of Experts we have on our site. One such example is Loringh. He only joined us this October, but his solutions have already caught the attention of staff with their high quality and interesting content. He solves car problems, home appliance problems, and even math problems! But that’s no surprise coming from someone with such an impressive background.

Loringh started out his adult life in the Navy, as an electronics technician. This gave him the opportunity to spend 3 years in Naples, Italy as a technician at the American Embassy. During this time he learned Italian, which became his primary language for a couple of years. After that he worked on the Apollo spacecraft for Honeywell, spy satellites for Eastman Kodak, and radar and night vision for Texas Instruments. Impressed yet? If not, consider this- after doing all that, he went back to grad school and got certified to teach high school math. Then, in his spare time, he built his own home.

A rising star in the field of car repair on FixYa, Toyota Ed, has already received tons of real-world recognition for his work in the auto industry. His 702 solutions and 91% rating means that he is extremely well-respected here on FixYa as well.

Q: Tell us about yourself:
A:I am 54 years old, single, and have a 7 year old daughter, Sophia, that I adopted from Moscow. I have been in the automotive business since 1975. My dealerships have won the Number One Customer Satisfaction Award 3 times with me as Service & Customer Relations Manager- in 1994 with Nissan, and in 2000 and 2001 with Toyota. I have the qualifications to join Mensa, but never got around to it. I also speak seven different languages.

Q: What are your areas of expertise and how did you come to be involved with them?
A: I managed several different service departments, starting with strictly European cars (Lotus, Porsche, Alfa, Ferrari, TVR, Jaguar, and the like). I then traded down to manage an AMC/Jeep/Renault/Nissan dealership, and then traded up to manage my current service department with Toyota.