You can contact me in these forms:
- Twitter: @kevincullis
- LinkedIn: LinkedIn/in/kcullis
- FaceBook: facebook.com/kevin.cullis
I am part Business, part Geek, so you could call me a Business Geek!!
A Business Geek is someone that solves business problems with computer technologies. They are not quite a ”propeller-head” (geekspeak for computer person) where they love to dig into the guts of computers such as a hardware geek who loves hardware specs or a software developer who programs, AND, not quite a fully blown business person.
While I love computers, computers do not solve all business problems, that’s why I include about myself that I enjoy finding business solutions to problems, and am an expert at it. It has to make business sense to use a computer to solve a problem. Hence, I love to solve business problems. If you are using a computer, then I’d use Apple technologies and solutions even though I’ve used Windows and Linux. I only like getting “under the hood” of the guts of computer technology to learn, and on occasion I can go there, but I don’t like doing it as a living.
I’ve been using Macs since 1985, Windows since version 3.11 and Linux since 1999 (SuSe, and Ubuntu), but by far I favor the Mac platform, much easier to work with, but can’t discount the other two in certain instances.
But that’s not all of me either. I love to read, you could say sort of book-aholic, research, and generally see “between the lines” of what is happening. For example my wife and I recently saw the movie “Love in the Time of Cholera” and during the movie I noticed a lady in the jungle bringing out some glasses on a tray with glasses turned over. Why were the glasses turned over? Because if they were clean and turned right side up dirt and bugs would get into them and they would become dirty again. Turning them upside down prevents from having to do more work. See how I think? Now I apply that to all issues that a business person or a geeks does.
Here’s my personality from the Myers-Briggs and Multiple Intelligences test:
How many geeks do you know that have interpersonal and intrapersonal skills? Not many that I’d say be I’m the type that can talk with people about their computer and business issues. The best of both worlds.
If you have taken the “Strengths Finder” test you’ll find my top five themes are:
- Analytical – objective, dispassionate, able to see patterns and connections and their affects.
- Learner – energized by steady, deliberate journey to competence, thrives in dynamic work environments for short project assignments to learn a lot in a short period of time, but is not the subject expert.
- Ideation – fascinated by ideas, always looking for connections, intrigued by disparate phenomena that can be linked by an obscure connection. These ideas are profound, novel, and clarifying and sometimes bizarre.
- Activator - “When can we start?” Action is the best device for learning. Make a decision, take action, and your next action. You put yourself out there.
- Woo – Enjoy the challenge of meeting new people, strangers energize you, love breaking the ice and making a connection. There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.
I’m always looking for new things to apply myself in, making those connections.
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all” – Fredrich Nietzsche
Call me Chief Business Geek!!
Contact me at: kevin AT macgetit DOT com
