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Is Your IT Partner a Passive Player or a Proactive Leader?
Several years ago, after providing a check to a merchant for a service I received, the clerk handed the check ...
Buyer Beware: There is no universal standard for the “Managed Service Program”
In our industry, ad-hoc network support services have become obsolete in favor of a more pro-active, managed approach to network ...
Automating Processes. Securing Data.
"Tastes great! Less filling!" That 1987 advertising campaign condensed the advantages of Miller Lite beer down to four short words ...
Business Outsourcing: Hurting or Helping Business Growth?
In the October 6-12, 2017 issue of the Providence Business News, Eli Sherman wrote a well-researched piece on outsourcing titled ...
Breach Fatigue Or a Call to Action?
Here we go again, another major breach of private data. This time possibly impacting 40% of the people in ...
Can You Really Afford Not to Have a Backup Plan?
According to Symantec SMB, 50% of SMBs admit to having no backup and disaster recovery plan in place. 41% of ...
Reflecting on fourteen years of IT solutions and services
You hear it all the time: ”where did the time go?” or “it seems like only yesterday...”. Lately, I can ...
It takes a community to secure your company’s data
Back in the day, IT security was the job of a computer tech. Whether that resource worked directly for your ...
What the Wanna Crypto attack teaches us
When I first started providing microcomputers to businesses in 1980 (we didn’t call them PC’s until 1982), upgrades and security ...
As President of NetCenergy, Don Nokes is responsible for ensuring client satisfaction, and overseeing company performance and direction. Prior to co-founding the firm with Dan Charland in 2003, Don held senior leadership positions with IT service firms ranging in size from $3 Billion to $10 Million in annual sales.
Nick Eckman joined NetCenergy in 2016 from an international gaming company. Nick’s experience with supervising and implementing secure, fiber and copper wire infrastructure services provides our clients with a team of highly trained and experienced technicians. In addition to the skills required to manage our infrastructure services department, Nick brings a very experienced and focused approach to project management and is a stickler for accurate documentation for every project designed and built by his team.
Peter Lachapelle joined NetCenergy in 2015 and is responsible for leading all of NetCenergy’s operations and accounting functions. Each department within NetCenergy reports through Lachapelle. He brings his years of experience to maintain a pragmatic, efficient, client-focused team at NetCenergy. Lachapelle joined NetCenergy after completing a 27-year career with a Rhode Island, federally-charted bank which culminated in his senior management position as COO and CFO for the bank.
Peter Nelson has 25+ years of technology and management experience and has been with NetCenergy since inception. Peter serves as the VP of Engineering at NetCenergy. His role consists of managing the engineering staff, driving the companies technology strategy, and ensuring NetCenergy keeps up to date on new technologies and solutions.
As a Founding Partner, Dan is a result oriented individual who is always focusing on what is best for his client. He understands that business applications empower an organization and that technology must support those critical business applications. Dan’s technology career started in 1990 at EMC Corporation. Through the years, he has represented technology and consulting services for several organizations until 2003, when he and Don Nokes founded NetCenergy.
With decades of hands-on HR experience, Margery Ahearn is our Director of Human Resources, overseeing all hiring of new positions for NetCenergy with a careful eye on sourcing technology savvy engineers and skilled office-based professionals who fit our company culture, understand our commitment to our clients, and bring their time and talents to our team. Margery has both a BA and MBA in Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.