Currently 25 employees strong, LoDo's
Platte River Networks is currently hiring a network administrator and looking to add sales and support staff later in 2013.
Co-Founders Treve Suazo and Brent Allshouse launched Platte River in 2002 after seeing an opportunity IT consulting for small and medium-sized businesses. "They started the company out of their basements and they've grown year after year," says Director of Business Development David DeCamillis.
"We're our customers' outsourced IT department," says DeCamillis. The company offers a wide range of IT and network consulting services, as well as help-desk support and turnkey telecom services.
About 80 percent of Platte River's customers are based in Colorado, says DeCamillis, but an increasing number are based elsewhere. "We are seeing growth," he says, citing demand for server virtualization and the aforementioned telecom services.
"You used to have to have 10 servers for virtualization to make sense," says DeCamillis, citing benefits of hardware and energy savings along with improved performance. "Now you can have two or three servers."
Platte River's award-winning telecom services have also fueled growth, he adds. "We're agents for all the major bandwidth providers," says DeCamillis, noting that the company handles cabling and other hardware to complement VOIP systems.
If there was any kind of Internet slowdown at a client site, "We were usually called or blamed or both," he adds. "We wanted to own and manage that piece."
Contact Confluence Denver Innovation & Jobs News Editor Eric Peterson with tips and leads for future stories at eric@confluence-denver.com.
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