Marshall Kass

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    Gotham Member

    Marshall Kass

    11217 NW 70th. Court, Parkland, Florida, 33076

    E-mail: Marshall@romy.com

    Phone: (954) 341-0868

    Company: Romy Computer Services, Inc.

    Position: Owner / President

    • work-phone (954) 341-0868
    • mail-address Marshall@romy.com
    • mobile (954) 557-7210
    • location 11217 NW 70th. Court

    I grew up in Kingston, Jamaica and Forest Hills, NY. I graduated SUNY Buffalo in 1983. After college, I tried myriad different careers, including being an assistant buyer at Bloomingdale's in NYC, a packaging engineer at Norel Paper & Plastic and as a MassMutual Agent. In 1985, as an agent, I moved to Florida to a small company called PBS (Planned Benefit Services) and went from a sales position to Sales Manager / trainer in the course of the first year. I created the script and taught the agents how to open, present and close their leads. We worked with Municipal Employees and provided them with alternative to their Florida Retirement System, using Life Insurance and IRS section 457 Deferred Compensation. By the time I left, There were several people in the Florida Department of Taxation and the Retirement Division who would call me to find out about their systems and taxation of THEIR programs. I left FL to move back to NY in 1990, met my future wife and awwwway we went. In 1992 I found a position with a company WPS, a "Value Added Reseller" in Manhattan. The company brought me on as the sales manager to grow both the general networking and an accounting software / customization VAR business. Although I placed over 850K in sales in the first year, they were too inept to actually fulfill the technical aspects of the jobs and essentially lost the business as fast as I could bring it in. During that first year (where the company closed, and re-opened down the block with a new name due to lawsuits stemming from their inability to do what they professed to bring to the table), three of my new, potential, customers actually requested that I do all the networking and software setup on my own. So I started ROMY COMPUTERS (Romy being my wife's middle name - a labor of love all around) in October 1992. I incorporated as Romy Computer Services, learned HOW to install and configure networks (LANtastic at the time), and never looked back. In 1992 we married and in 1994 we moved to South Florida. Again, never looking back. 1996 My first child, 1998 my second daughter, and we also picked up a dog along the way. These same three customers were with me until 2001 when we parted ways due to the impracticality of supporting networks in NY from Florida. One business, Vargo and Associates in Clifton NJ, is still with me since I opened my doors. I am happy to say that it is through attrition that I have lost most of my customers over the years, not due to pricing, ability or the other, usual, reasons for companies to part. I have retained most of my customers for over a decade, some over two.

    Description

    Romy Computer Services (RCS) has been providing Computers, Computer Services, Networking Services and Computer Peripherals for over 15 years. RCS provides services from Washington State to New Jersey, from California to Florida. We provide systems management and network management as well as support. Listed in the South Florida Business Journal as one of the largest computer networking companies in South Florida since 2000, RCS provides our customers a virtual IT service with quick response times and a sense of partnership in your business.

    Specialties: Small business virtual IT services, hardware and software support, network planning, design and implementation. We provide On-site and remote troubleshooting and resolution. We excel at providing redundancy to keep your business up and running 24/7.

    Business Category: IT

    Website: www.romy.com

    Good Lead: Any small business looking for a reliable, knowledgeable, IT person. Personal and Home-based or businesses under 25 users are my ideal candidates. I provide a concierge type service, personalized and thorough.  We provide & repair Computer Hardware and peripherals as well as design and implement networks and telecomm services. I particularly LOVE customers who have problems due to their current IT, as I provide a totally different experience in my approach, and devotion to their needs.

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    LinkedIn:

    www.linkedin.com/in/marshall-kass