About Us
IT Support Driven by Strategy and Process
Support your technology with service that is designed to focus on business goals, keep your team productive and secure your company’s data.
Established in 1999
Technology services for small and mid-market businesses
From the early days, our mission was to help businesses realize the promises that new technologies could offer. That technology exists to serve the business and the people who make those businesses thrive.
People are at the center of what we do each day, technology just happens to be the environment. That said, we have hired and developed a deep bench of professionals that can problem solve most any technical issue simple or complex. And as a long time Gold Partner, we possess deep expertise with Microsoft technologies.
Our team’s number one priority is to serve. It’s how we hire, it’s what we measure and the focus of our continuous improvement efforts. Having fun is a collateral benefit of serving.

Key stats – experience, scale and happy clients
We’ve been managing and supporting our clients’ technology needs long enough to have the systems, people and processes in place to deliver consistently strong results.
Years experience offering managed IT and security solutions
Professionals we support daily
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Steering the Ship
Leadership Team
This group will be the first to tell you they stand on the shoulders of highly capable teammates that make them look good every day.

Daniel Petersen
President

Pete Sholts
Chief Operating Officer

Kris Cears
Chief Information Security Officer

David DeCamillis
Senior VP, Sales & Marketing

Ken Jensen
Senior VP, Finance & Accounting

Anne Vitale
VP, Talent Management

Sam Hickler
VP, Operations

Jeremiah Hepner
VP, Managed Services

Phil Ouellette
Director of Marketing

James Walstad
Director of Sales

Ryan Curtis
Director of Centralized Services
Providing Guidance
Our Board of Directors
We are lucky to have a board that listens, questions, supports and continually pushes us to be better.

Rob Burkholder
Board Member

Don Epstein
Board Member

Kurt Sippel
Board Member/Founder

Treve Suazo
Board Member

Brent Allshouse
Board Member
Locations
Headquartered in the Midwest.
With offices in Madison, Milwaukee, Wausau, and Denver we also have professional staff in a dozen other markets across the US.
Madison Area
Serving clients in central and southern Wisconsin.
Greater Milwaukee
Serving clients in eastern Wisconsin.
Wausau
Serving clients in northern Wisconsin.
Denver
Serving clients in the Denver area.
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Featured Case Study
“Having Applied Tech frees us to focus on what we do: trust settlement. And that helps us build and keep a really good customer service model that preserves our excellent reputation in the industry.”
Chris Foregger
President and CEO, Capital First Trust Co.
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