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Pretty much everyone in Sam Gupta’s family – his brothers and father especially – runs their own business. So after working in IT project management while his wife completed medical school and moved the family to Pittsburgh to take a job at the VA Hospital there, Gupta looked to jumpstart his own entrepreneurial path. The only catch was Gupta didn’t want to spend years building the business to profitability.

Granby resident Paul Marzo, 50, began programming computers in the early 1980s.

His father who started his own computer business 30 years before that.

Now, Marzo has opened an office for CMIT Solutions in his Granby home offering IT management services to local small businesses.

Marzo studied math and computer sciences at Clemson University. He spent 12 years working at IT consulting company EDS and also worked with small businesses as an indepenedent contractor.

Patch asked him to tell us about his business. Here's what he had to say.

GRANBY — After years in the corporate world perfecting his trade as an information technology expert, Paul Marzo has settled down in Granby and opened up his own area firm in Hartford, working with small and medium-sized businesses.



ART Liscano knows he's an endangered species in the job market: He's a meter reader in Fresno, California.

For 26 years, he's driven from house to house, checking how much electricity Pacific Gas & Electric customers have used.

But PG&E doesn't need many people like Mr Liscano making rounds anymore. Every day, the utility replaces 1200 old-fashioned meters with digital versions that can collect information without human help, generate more accurate power bills, even send an alert if the power goes out.

Roxann Abrams lost her son to military PTSD suicide. She founded Operation: I.V.,Inc to help combat veterans with PTSD. She says, “NBC news reports we have now lost more military to suicides than in combat!

Holiday time can bring you in contact with customers or clients you may not see the rest of the year. But if you’re expecting to be greeted with cheer you may be surprised.

Frustrated business owners and senior executives say they are turned off by being the customers of a service provider who communicates mostly by email.

Although that type of communication is efficient, a CEO recently told me, “I see them as a commodity — faceless and easy to replace.”

CARMICHAEL, CA – (MPG) A natural disaster can be a crippling blow to a business. A fire, earthquake or flood can leave a business without access to vital information and communication with customers. One of CMIT’s long standing cli- ents, Parisi Insurance, is a perfect example of how a disaster does not have to debilitate business.

CMIT Solutions Inc. is hoping to bring its brand of small business information technology services to Arizona with the potential for five or more locations in the Phoenix area.

Barbara Adams opened a CMIT Solutions franchise in Hallandale Beach and will service customers in the area including Hollywood, Dania and South East Fort Lauderdale.