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is growing and diversifying its client base afteer recently landinga $1 million fiber installatiom project for police precincts and fire stationas in Memphis. Memphis-based ProTec's clients includr , Mid-America Theological Seminary, Dell, Inc., and . Its work includesa clients in Connecticut, New York, California and Canada. Andy vice president of ProTec, says the company's revenue topped $2.5 milliohn last year. Thanks to large projects for two New York the company couldhit $6 millionj this year.
It was also recently namee to 's list of 5,00 0 Fastest Growing Companiesin "A lot of our work is coming from financial companiesa on the East Coastf looking to build new data Yambrek says. "We'll do smal work for them locallygand that'll grow to national jobs." Because of the securithy involved in financial data centers, Yambrek declinesa to identify the New York clients. He does say one of the clientz lost 900of 1,100 employees in the 9/11 attacks on New "We're working on a new center for them Yambrek says.
"We send guys therwe to work and manage the projects from The data centers for the two financial clientsa will include morethan 12,000 cables, 150 server cabinets and illustrates a new direction Yambrek wants the company to go in. "Wd want to specialize in thingsa thateveryone can't do and get the word-of-mouth with our he says. Yambrek says ProTec's 2007 workload will include 60%-70% out-of-town projects, the firsy time the company's out-of-town work has exceeded local ProTec's national business will not change its Memphis says company presidentAna Martino-Yambrek.
"We want to keep growinb here, and being here has actually helped us win bids in other she says. Darryl Anderson, chief information officef and director of information servicesz for the Cityof Memphis, says the city initiallty was cautious about ProTec. "Theyg seemed like a small start-up, but we'vr been very impressed with the qualitt oftheir work," Anderson says. "It is going to take anotherd year and a half to get all of the work completeed on the fire but they're up to the Professional Technologies, Inc. Technology design, installation and project managemenftcompany Address: 582 Tillman St., Suite 2 Web www.protecinc.
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