CMIT Solutions of Tacoma

 A South Charlotte business has been recognized nationally for its growth. Emory Simmons, 59, owner of CMIT Solutions of South Charlotte, recently was awarded the 2013 CMIT Solutions Momentum Award, which he received in May at the company’s annual conference in Miami.

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.