It’s harder to introduce yourself on a blog than I thought. So here we go anyway..

I’ve worked in the IT industry for longer than I remember. This industry moves so fast its scary to think back at where we are now, and compare it with technology we worked with years back that felt at that time to be “cutting edge”.

Having had a good few years working as an IT consultant and Technical Project Manager for various IT Resellers, both big & small, the lure of self employment took hold. In the heady dot-com boom year of 2000 I decided to become an independent consultant so I could move away from hands-on techie jobs and into the business focused side of technology. That being the art of listening to customer issues, understanding how they got there, and helping work out the best use of existing and new technologies in the business as a long term plan.

Five years later, having worked mainly in the public sector and large business environment, I began to wonder why the small to medium sized business community seemed to be ignored by most technology companies and resellers. That wondering lead to the creation of Commverge, created with my friend and now colleague Rob Ley.

Today, we provide hosted Exchange 2007, VoIP Telephony and Mobile Email solutions to all manner of growing businesses from basket weavers to property developers. It’s exciting times, and its great to see these once big business technologies put to amazing use by smaller business. Because small businesses can grow, shrink and react to change more quickly its a great environment to provide hosted solutions - our advantage being that we also scale to customer demands instantly.

What will IT look like in another 5 years, who knows? But I hope it will be fun continuing to be involved with where-ever it may lead in the future. As always, feel free to get in touch with us at our Bristol office.

Hasta Luego,

Steve Curtis.