ICS

ICS recently announced the following first-quarter hires.

BRUCE WHITE has joined as technical accounts manager in Ithaca. He has a professional background in management and sales that gives him a unique approach to conflict resolution and business growth. White’s position is all about the acquisition and maintenance of customers that builds a long-lasting positive relationship with the firm’s clients. He is also the representative of the agreement that was signed by both parties to make sure that both sides are living up to the agreement.

DANIEL FIRTH has come aboard as security analyst II – 1nteger, working remotely. Firth has a degree in applied mathematics and previously worked for another managed-service provider on the network-operations side of things. His responsibilities include working with clients to ensure they have the proper data/procedures in place as it relates to cyber compliance and gap-analysis. JOHN MCVEY has joined as level II remote operations technician in Syracuse. His role and responsibilities include utilizing the ticketing system to track and resolve IT-related issues for tier II concerns. Born in North Carolina but raised in Central New York, he has over eight years of experience working within the IT field. He also spent more than 16 years in the military. McVey has an associate degree in information technology from SUNY Empire State College.

VALERIE VANDEMARK has joined ICS as a finance specialist in the Endicott office. Her job duties and responsibilities include collections, daily deposits, CSP (ownership), Datto (ownership), Audits for Datto, SaaS protection, CSP, Liongard, DUO, Domains/SSLs, Antivirus, Auvik, invoicing monthly agreements for domains and SSLs, and Azure. VanDeMark Worked at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles for 15 years. She also worked for car dealerships, in positions ranging from receptionist to office manager, for 20 years.

ROBERT BRZOSTEK has come aboard as technical account manager in Syracuse. His job duties and responsibilities include working closely with an assigned customer base to ensure all of their IT needs are met. He previously worked as a customer-success manager at a Cisco Gold Partner service provider for close to nine years. Brzostek spent the last three years, working one year in the in the utilities industry and two years in the medical-device industry as a support technician.

TAD CLINE has joined ICS as finance controller in Endicott. He is responsible for the firm’s overall finance, procurement, administrative functions and the day-to-day management of those departments. He is a Vestal native and a graduate of both SUNY Broome and Binghamton University. After obtaining his state CPA license, Cline went into private practice and before joining ICS, was most recently the controller for National Pipe and Plastics for nearly seven years.

ICS also added the following new employees — COREY CHEEVER as systems administrator II in the Endicott office and remotely; and CARSON BALCOM as phone support I in Syracuse and remotely.