Our company prides itself on having a team of unmatched experts in their respective fields, with years of experience and a deep understanding of industry trends and best practices.
Switch Technologies offers top-notch customer support, ensuring that our customers receive the help they need when they need it.
We understand the importance of fast and secure services, and we make it our priority to provide both to our customers.
Building trust and fostering loyalty are key values for our company, and we strive to earn and maintain both from our customers.
With years of experience and a commitment to innovation, we offer cutting-edge solutions that are tailored to our customer’s unique needs.
Marcus Luck has worked with schools in a technical capacity since 1999. His duties for the last several years consisted of Account and Project Management, varying degrees of Multi-platform Technical Support, System Administration, Cloud Migrations & Management, Virtualization, Storage Consultation, and Network Design, Support, & Integration. He works closely with the Switch Technologies technical staff providing oversight and professional development. His experience with school districts has enabled him to assist Superintendents and Technical Coordinators / Directors to prepare budgets, allocate resources, assign district allocations, train staff, and coordinate support.
Marcus holds certifications as an Apple Certified Systems Administrator, SAN Technologies, Extreme Switching and Routing Engineer, Extreme Dragon Intrusion Defense Engineer, Barracuda Security Gateway Engineer, Barracuda Web Security Engineer, Barracuda SSLVPN Specialist, Veeam VMSP & VMTSP, VMWare VSP & VTSP Foundation/Server Virtualization, Axis Level Video Certified Technician, and is NASA certified in Electrostatic Discharge. He maintains his certifications and attends training courses year-round to stay current in the technologies that STI supports. Marcus has held both NATO Secret and Secret US security clearances in the past.
Marcus has performed network integrations, configured servers, deployed workstations, and provided technical support in over 75 schools in New York. He has also configured, recommended, and supported web filtering/caching devices, email firewall devices, VPN/Firewall devices, database servers, web servers, email servers, IP pbx devices, email archiving devices, switching devices, network monitoring devices, wireless LAN technologies, and network security devices from many vendors.
David Pijacki has over 20 years of experience in the design, implementation and support of core network technologies . During this period, he has acted as a lead technician and project manager on many small and large-scale technology integration projects. These projects include core network router installations, edge switch installations, Firewall & Network security solutions, SD WAN, wireless network design, Network Access Control integrations, network policy and IPS. David is an expert at the ExtremeControl NAC solution and integration of advanced security policies on the wired and wireless networks.
David has designed, implemented and supported complex wireless solutions for many businesses, hospitals, and K12 campuses primarily focusing on Extreme Networks and HPE/Aruba solutions. David is a lead engineer for layer 1, 2, & 3 network integration projects. David has also executed many projects focused on the perimeter of the network. He has experience integrating and supporting multiple vendor technologies including Extreme, Cisco, Alcatel, HPE, Barracuda, Fortinet, Avaya among others.
David has designed and implemented High Availability and redundant network designs along with comprehensive security to mitigate the ever increasing threats and preserve network uptime and stability and continues to be intimately involved in ongoing support of his implementations.
Over the last seven years David has acted as a liaison between Switch Technologies and its customers and has directly managed onsite technicians.
Roger has over 45 years of experience in the design, deployment and support of IT services. Roger worked at SUNY Stony Brook for 16 years, during eight of which he served as the first CIO at the university, in charge of all major technology services on the campus.
He left Stony Brook in 1993 to start an IT support company that grew to 60 employees and had a client list that included dozens of Long Island school districts. He has designed, implemented and managed hundreds of projects for the K12 market.
Roger has an expert level of competence in network design, deployment and security. He has a thorough knowledge of VOIP systems, UNIX and LINUX systems, e-mail systems, TCP/IP protocols and software design. He has programmed complex IT systems, including network monitoring appliances, mail archiving solutions and database environments that support the back-end operations for multi-million dollar corporations. Roger currently holds certifications from Unify, Extreme Networks, and Barracuda Networks.