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VENDOR SPOTLIGHT
WRITTEN BY DAN BALDWIN KPHOTOGRAPHED BY ANDREW PAUL
I was making money helping people with their computer systems.” Even- tually he discovered a market for his skills in the business community. “ e next thing I knew I was work- ing in the eld and really enjoying the consulting piece of it. ere came a point in time in which I took the leap and went into business for myself full- time as a computer consultant, which led to building the company.”
From Building Computers to Building a Business
Bickmore founded what became Snap Tech IT 18 years ago as a rm
arl Bickmore, an entrepreneur) who suggested that founder of Snap his son could buy computer compo- Tech IT, traces the nents and assemble his own unit and evolution of his install the operating system himself. business back to Bickmore was intrigued by the his late teens and suggestion and thought the exercise
an early fascination with computers. would be fun, so he gave it a try. He “When I was sixteen I put togeth- bought the individual computer com-
er some funds and was interested in buying a computer. is was back in the early 90s. I thought they were fas- cinating and that there were interest- ing things going on in the industry.” He received an challenging sugges- tion from his father (an electrical en- gineer, a business administrator and
ponents and invested a week focusing on the project. While assembling the components the thought occurred that he could do the same for other people and perhaps earn a little money.
“I got this spark and that led me to an interest in networking and by the time I was an adult looking for work
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Creating Fundamental Change in IT