North East Technology News

Issue 117

Did you always envisage a career in Technology? Not at all, I actually started as an electrician. After taking my Cisco exams at college, I moved into data communications with Conex about 30 years ago. Since then, the last three decades have flown by and it is a career change I have never regretted. Tell us about the business and your team? My brother Steve and I both worked long 9-12 hour shifts at Conex and realised we should put such effort into our own company and make a go of it on our own. We’d even been told in our annual appraisals that we’d never leave the installations team and achieve our objective of working in the office. Needless to say this fuelled our desire to work for ourselves. Initially we were just two lads in Sunderland with a van handling cabling but we quickly gained a footing with…