ConnectionsIT At A Glance
Delivering Performance and Cost-Effective Solutions to Video Surveillance and Information Technology Customers
Company Overview
Founded in Santa Rosa, California in 2000 by Brody Carlson, Founder and CIO. Brody has 10 years of front-line system integration experience in trouble-shooting and repairing existing casino video surveillance systems. Brody has a degree in criminal justice and served in the Marine Corps for 10 years as a tactical officer in an air defense unit. Brody also volunteers as a Reserve Police Officer. He is certified as a MSCE, CSE, CCA and CCSP.
ConnectionsIT has offices in California, Nevada and Oklahoma, and has successfully handled casino video surveillance system upgrades and expansions, as well as totally new system designs and installs. Currently, casino video surveillance makes up some 60 percent of ConnectionsIT’s business with the remaining coming from managed IT services. The company has 30 employees and expects to open new offices near the Great Lakes and in Southern California later this year.
ConnectionsIT has built a reputation for creating reliable and cost effective security video surveillance and IT Solutions for its clients. The key to this success is in delivering and integrating the best security and IT equipment in the industry and doing it in such a way that it delivers the desired performance of the individual client.
Mission Statement
To provide high quality, professional security and IT services that enable our customers to enhance their competitiveness through efficient design and implementation of their business processes. We take great pride in providing superior customer service, in a timely manner, with honesty and integrity.
Scope of Services
ConnectionsIT works with all types of tier-one alarm,access control and video surveillance product and service companies to create the right security solution for a particular casino environment. ConnectionsIT has a long and impressive history of working with Native American casinos such as the Comanche,Muscogee Creek, Choctaw, Paiute, and several Pomo Bands to incorporate the industry’s best product providers into solutions that deliver results.
Aside from its casino security expertise, ConnectionsIT has a proven track record for the design and implementation of IP telephony systems, Medical Record systems, Citrix Server, supporting Microsoft servers and workstations, and Cisco network engineering.
ConnectionsIT routinely works with such industry leaders as Axis, Panasonic, IQInvision, Genetec, Pelco, Lenel, Pivot3 and HID to incorporate the latest technology into their system solutions. ConnectionsIT is customer focused and believes in delivering the best service possible.
Customer Quote
“We are very impressed with the overall performance and system capabilities of the security video surveillance solution that ConnectionsIT helped to design,” said Kani Neves, Executive Director Sherwood Valley Gaming Commission, which operates the casino. “ConnectionsIT and Genetec make a good team and we are sure that the technology we are deploying today will permit us to grow the system seamlessly to handle a new 50,000 square foot facility that we have planned for the future.”
