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What are You Guys, a Couple of Rocket Scientists?
In May of 2001, Dave Miller and Michael Della Villa incorporated Rockit
Science Solutions while working at the time for ALLTEL Information Services.
Both Dave and Michael have many years of experience working for, and with,
Fortune 100 companies; Dave on the network infrastructure side and Michael on
application development and operations.
At ALLTEL, Michael managed application development and delivery for the
Enterprise Lending line of business. This encompassed all of the client/server
and web-based software development, as well as customer delivery. Dave managed
the complete network infrastructure and support for the applications. The
customers that relied on their talents were the likes of Bank of America, Wells
Fargo, HSBC, and many others.
Both Dave and Michael have also worked for GE during their career; Dave as an
employee of GE Corporate and Michael in GE Power Systems (presently GE Energy).
While at GE, Michael graduated from their Information Systems Management Program
(ISMP) and both Dave and Michael are Six Sigma trained.
A Vision is Born
One night while on a business trip in Dallas, Dave and Michael were eating
dinner with their boss from ALLTEL. Both Dave and Michael were challenging their
leadership (i.e. boss) to think differently about solving a problem for one of
their clients — a network security and management problem. To Dave and Michael,
the answer was simple, but management refused to listen to their ideas.
“How do you rocket scientists plan to deliver the solution?” their boss
challenged them, mumbling something about complexity and cost that would kill
the deal.
But Dave and Michael had a plan to deliver network monitoring and security as
a managed service that required only low upfront costs and simple monthly
subscription fee. That night Rockit Science Solutions was born. Dave and Michael
shared the vision of supplying Fortune 100 technology and experience to small
and mid-sized businesses and local governments — the organizations that can’t
afford the same technological support and knowledge that large companies can.
Rockit Science Solutions enables those smaller organizations to enjoy the
same network management and security with the likes of those Fortune 100
companies, without needing the resources, IT expertise or large up front
expenditures. Now that’s Rockit Science.