The ITLLC IT consulting team grew again this week, with the addition of new hire Pete Reske.

Pete is a resident of Ipswich Massachusetts, and a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Combining an aptitude for technology with creativity and artistic talent, Pete is a left/right brain switch hitter – with power in both directions! In addition to his passion for technology and computers, Pete is also a gifted painter and all-around Renaissance man.

Among all the great things he brings to Internet & Telephone, there’s something even greater that he leaves behind: His 3 hour daily commute to his previous job in South Boston!

When clients come to visit, MJ kicks his already-awesome-lunches up a notch and we get a special treat. This week we had several clients visit for lunch, and one of those days featured a company-wide favorite: MJ’s Famous Asian Cold Noodles, along with his awesome handmade Pork Dumpling Potstickers, Tom Yum Soup and Tuna!

Take a video tour of Internet & Telephone, and hear about our business and company values:  Directly from the owners.

Does your business need the Internet? Of course it does – as we say, the Internet is more important than oxygen. Now that Comcast and FIOS have cheap and plentiful internet connections – every business should have dual connections. But how do you make that work?

While some businesses have installed multiple Internet connections for redundancy and disaster prevention, most do not have a failover mechanism for that second connection to take over when the primary link fails.

Internet & Telephone works with our business Internet customers in Massachusetts and throughout New England to install and configure rock-solid network architecture, powered by Cisco Systems, to ensure that instantaneous and seemless failover mechanisms are in place to guarantee availability of Cloud resources. Call us (978.683.9100) or email us today to find out more.

One of the defining cultural characteristics of Internet & Telephone is our focus on Professional Development.  In order to deliver first class service to our customers, it is critically important that our Engineers remain at the forefront of the latest technology.  We also know that in order to retain the best and brightest talent, our company must align itself with the personal career goals of our employee.  The contribution has to go both ways:  Our employees drive our success, and we give them the tools to do so.

So when our lead Microsoft Engineer, John Gagnon, traveled to California last week to attend a Cisco bootcamp, our whole team was pulling for him.  It’s considered extremely rare for an Engineer to attend a week-long bootcamp, absorb an entire week’s worth of information, and then successfully pass the Certification exam all in the same stint. In fact, it’s considered so rare that the boot camp instructor virtually guaranteed that nobody from the class would be able to do it. But guess what – he was wrong!

And the whole team was waiting to celebrate when John returned victorious, with his Cisco Certified Network Associate’s cert in hand! Break out the cake and beer!