"I was a totally non-technical person - and I'm still very much that way," he admits. However, he realized that just as the manager of a construction company does not need to be skilled in all the crafts of his employees and subcontractors, neither did the head of an IT company need to be a computer geek.
"It was clear that an opportunity existed. Companies had laid off thousands of workers, but they still needed skilled technicians to get certain projects done, often on a temporary basis," he says.
Martinez, who holds an MBA from the University of Hartford New Haven, ventured that the management skills that had served him well in the construction industry could be applied with equal effect in the IT industry. He launched his company as a temporary personnel agency supplying high-tech workers to companies that had downsized their own IT departments.
"I felt it was a creative way to start a business, and I believe I have been proven right," he says. "IT is the industry to be in right now, and it certainly has a great future. We have evolved into one of the preeminent IT firms in the state."
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