Adam Bundy and his Great Dane showdog, Parker

    Bundy’s parents are Nancy McKinney and Jack Bundy, of Kane. His brother John Bundy, and sister, Jackie Lindquist also live in Kane. Bundy thinks he’d like to move back home one day. Since all he needs is his computer and access to an airport (to get to the company’s home office in Washington D.C., or to client companies such as Brazil, Amsterdam, Portugal, or wherever), it’s a possibility.

    Bundy is a SAP Sales Engineer/Managed Services for his company, and has designed software “solutions” for companies such as Being Airlines, in China, utility companies in Brazil, pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly and Johnson and Johnson, phone companies Sprint and Bell South, and large chains including McDonalds. Bundy has also done plenty of software designing for governments too, both for large municipalities, and for U.S. defense agencies.

    In two weeks Bundy plans to leave his two Great Danes (prize-winning show dogs named Parker and Marley), and travel to Puerto Rico on a pleasure trip. Bundy has been to most of the Virgin Islands, where he likes to dive, snorkel and fish.

    Prior to BearingPoint, Bundy worked for Accenture USA, as an SAP solution architect for IBM Global Services, at the Strategic Outsourcing SAP Center of Competency, and as an offering manger, and situation manager at IBM Global.

    Upon graduation from Kane High School, Bundy went into the U.S. Marine Corps in ’89, where he trained as a Combat Engineer E-5, eventually managing training for a company of 200 marines, and responsible for all computer-related activities. After getting the computer bug in the marines, he went to the University of Kentucky, where he earned a Bachelor of Sciences in Computer Science.

    Bundy says he actually became interested in computers even earlier, while in middle school. He thought it was the “neatest thing.” There, he took a very hands-on computer class on Apple Computers, taught by Jennifer Peterson, which he said was an “eye opening experience,” and in which he began to learn how everything worked together. Unfortunately, there was no follow-up in high school, where the focus of learning was merely on typing, Bundy said.

Other teachers who influenced him was Math teacher Mr. Wismar, whose classes he took for two years during high school, and who made math fun, interesting, and showed how Math connected to the business world. Bundy also enjoyed Mr. Detrick’s Vo Ag classes, which deepened his interest in farming. Both that class, and working on the Lindquist Dairy Farm with his friend Greg Lindquist, gave Bundy skills that include driving a tractor, milking a cow, and growing things. Now he grows tropical plants and plenty of vegetables at his Lexington, Ky. home—and finds locals are often impressed that it can actually grow in that soil, Bundy said.

“He’s done it all himself,” said mother Nancy McKinney, although she admits to having been a strict disciplinarian with her children. Much of the attention and resources at home was focused on Adams’ older brother, who suffered severe kidney failure while still in high school.  But Adam worked two jobs during high school — farming, and working at the Suzanne Shop. He still helps his brother out when needed, his mother said.

    Bundy believes in giving back to his community. In Kentucky, he mentors students in computers at a Junior Achievement program at area middle schools, and volunteers for a program that helps homeless people in a program called Bridge Under the Water.

    Bundy’s advice to Kane is to greatly improve the computer/technology programs offered in all of Kane’s schools so that local kids can become proficient in computer technology, which is where the future lies, he said. Bundy usually has to hire skilled computer engineers from places like India, or China, because Americans just don’t have the knowledge to do those jobs. Kane also needs to become more proactive in attracting high-tech business to the area so that people like him don’t have to move away for the good jobs, he said. If a poor, rural area in Eastern Kentucky can convince a First Call Facility (like Dell, or HP) to move there, Bundy said, “I think Kane could do something on a similar model.”