CMIT Solutions of Southwest Silicon Valley

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.



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