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About Us

Reliable partners and a positive attitude.

Switch Architecture is a group of technologists who have dedicated their careers to advanced data sets, enterprise platforms, and the relational databases, integrations, and data warehouses that power them.

Members of our team have held many different roles, but we all share a strong history of self-direction on complex projects and an ability to ramp up quickly and work semi-autonomously. Our team’s strengths and experiences complement each other. This allows us not only come to the table with new solutions for the most difficult problems, but also implement, release, and support the solutions.

Who we are

We are a unique team of the brightest tech professionals.

  • Wes Kennedy

    Principal Engineer

    Wes is a full stack engineer with a heart for enterprise platforms, data integrations, advanced data sets, and the relational databases and systems that power them. He has a strong history of self-direction on complex projects and an ability to ramp up quickly and work semi-autonomously.

    The foundation of his experience is over 12 years solving business problems in the healthcare, supply chain, and financial industries by designing, implementing, and supporting Microsoft-centric software solutions with a specialty the areas of OLTP database development, data warehouse architecture, platform optimization and scaling, .NET and T-SQL development, cloud architecture, web applications, data integrations, high-availability and disaster recovery, systems engineering, cloud platforms, security assessments and testing, release automation, database administration, project leadership, corporate IT, and enterprise platform support.

    Prior to being a Principal Engineer Wes spent almost three years developing his senior leadership skills as Vice President of Engineering at a growing healthcare predictive analytics company that was winner of the Nashville Early Stage Company of the Year award.

  • Dylan Finney

    Principal Architect

    Dylan has worked in IT since 1996 when he started as a web developer. With a life long passion for technology he has worked for various companies across the country bringing his expertise and experience to help them solve some of the most challenging problems they have faced. For the last 10 years he has focused on Database Architecture helping groups build OLTP and OLAP solutions focused on company growth.

    His passion for quality work and design lead him to co-found Switch Architecture with Wes so that together they could help companies use enterprise technology better and solve problems faster. Switch allows him to help companies change the way they view IT internally and start making better, data-driven decisions that improve the bottom line.

    Working in these varying environments has exposed Dylan to a number of design philosophies and coding practices. SQL Server engine internals is the facet of the product that he is most passionate about. Dylan applies his expertise and knowledge to ensure the scalability and availability of the systems he designs and helps to implement.

  • Martin Laritz

    .NET Architect

    Martin has been developing software for over 15 years specializing in front-end and middle-tier development. He’s been a Solutions Architect and Team Lead for over 8 years with a knack for building streamlined, cohesive teams and scalable solutions. He loves helping solve those complex problems that seem the most difficult.

    Martin’s background began as a full stack developer in the Microsoft stack where he gained incredible proficiently in n-tier architecture. His love for programming led him to explore the various front-end frameworks, mobile development, and all things cloud. He’s always learning and attempting to keep up with the current technologies. If there’s a new popular front-end framework, he’s probably written an app using it.

Our Services

Let's work together.

Unlike most consulting groups, Switch Architecture is not just a supplemental DBA service. Our team’s capabilities expand beyond the typical administration and support services. Instead we focus on enterprise architecture, data warehouse development, and advanced T-SQL and .NET development. We offer several contract and support models that allow you to access Switch Architecture’s resources in a way that works best for your team.

Development

Hiring is hard. As former hiring managers we know how difficult it is to find and retain great developers. Our resources are world-class developers who can communicate, lead, and deliver when you need it the most.

Bring us in to get through a backlog of work, develop alongside your project team, or lead and architect a new project.

Data Architecture

In the middle of a brainstorm session your team has just envisioned a fantastic new product for your company that will help you distinguish yourselves in the market and grow revenue. Now you need to make sure you can deliver and grow this product over time and with the market.

We have spent the last 10 years of our careers dedicated to designing and architecting solutions to help groups realize their data-driven products.

Integrations

You’ve just bought a brand new system and the vendor assured you that it would work flawlessly with your current toolset, but after the contract has been signed you find out that this feature doesn’t do everything you need it to do or worse, doesn’t exist! Let us help you asses your integration needs and build a solution for your organization.

Project Rescue

Do you have an initiative that has been ‘almost finished’ for months? Is a consulting group asking for more time and budget? We’ve helped leaders in your position before.

Switch Architecture can review the project state and help you determine the right steps to turn this into a success story.

Support

If your current staff is overburdened by incoming tickets, integration failures, and optimization needs, Switch Architecture can get you back above water.

We are available for short-term and long-term engagements to reduce system noise by solving common errors, optimizing pain points, and clearing ticket backloads. Let our experience in automation and support tools help your team.

Cloud Migration

Your team may be considering migrating your infrastructure to the AWS or Azure public clouds, but the cost and timeline seem wrong compared to what your peers are saying.

Switch Architecture has experience getting customers from on-premise and co-location infrastructure models to the cloud on time and on budget. Our deliveries have resulted in 50% cost savings, improved availability, and reduced RPO and RTO times.

Our Products

Reduce risk.
Reduce cost.
Deliver faster.

Our products lay a solid foundation so you can focus on the business problems instead of starting from scratch with an in-house solution. Our solutions have been deployed, tested, and proven to help enterprises deliver major products and projects with success.

SwitchDW

We have spent most of our data careers helping organizations build and implement custom data warehouses. Most technical leadership within organizations have heard about data warehousing but have decided that it’s too costly to implement or maybe not possible with the workload and current staffing. With our experience we have developed a DWaaS (Data Warehouse as a Service) product that can help your organization collect and analyze data to drive better vision of what’s happening in your organization and even drive insights into areas for cost savings. Our product allows your organization to greatly speed the process of implementing a data warehouse inside of your organization by utilizing our proven best practices and methodologies.

Replication Toolkit

When you hear the words ‘database replication’ do you think of complexity, manual steps, long release windows, and a DBA that can’t take vacation? The utilities in our replication toolkit can help.

Our replication toolkit provides your team with a set of one-click utilities that allow any team member having only a basic understanding of replication to start, stop, create, destroy, and modify your replication topology. In addition, the toolkit provides a set of comprehensive health checks that immediately alert your team if there are any errors, warnings, or data delays with the publisher, subscriber(s), and article(s) in your topology.

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Locations

Denver

Our Denver office primarily serves clients in the Northern Denver area – including Broomfield, Golden, Adams, and Boulder counties.

Nashville

Our Nashville office allows us to serve our Music City clients – including Davidson and Williamson counties.

Just minutes away from the Nashville International Airport (BNA) and with multiple conference rooms, this office is our primary location for hosting traveling clients and development partners.

Remote

Many of our clients are located outside of Colorado and Tennessee. Switch uses world-class communication platforms, cloud-based development tools, and web-based project management tools that allow us to work with any team, anywhere.

On-Site

In some cases the best option is to have resources at your site and working side-by-side with your team.

Switch offers travel options for both short-term and long-term engagements.

Here are some common questions about Switch Architecture

Q.

How quickly can your resources be available and start contributing to my project?

A.

Switch Architecture serves many clients concurrently, but we’re almost always available within a few business days. Our consultants aren’t limited by work weeks or hours. This gives us an ability to carve out time when a customer reaches out.

Q.

How much do your services cost?

A.

Initial consultations are always no-cost to you. We offer several contract and support models that allow you to access our resources. Consulting services are billed by resource hours with rate tiers depending on the customer’s commitment and the project’s complexity.

Q.

How many resources can you provide my project?

A.

Switch Architecture has two full-time staff members – a Principal Architect and a Principal Engineer. By engaging with us you team will have access to either resource or both resources on a full-time or part-time basis.

Q.

Which technologies do you support?

A.

Members of our team all share a strong history of self-direction on complex projects and an ability to ramp up quickly and work semi-autonomously.The foundations of our experience are successful careers spent solving business problems by designing, implementing, and supporting solutions with a specialty the areas of Microsoft and Amazon Web Services frameworks. Some examples of our strongest areas of experience may be found below.

  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • SQL Server Integration Services
  • Microsoft .NET (C#, VB.NET)
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Oracle (9i, 11g)
  • R and predictive analytics
  • Microsoft ASP.NET MVC
  • SQL Server Reporting Services
  • Windows Services
  • Web Services

Q.

I have a SQL or database question. Can you help?

A.

Of course! We are active members of the SQL Server community and we credit our experience to those who have taken the time to author, mentor, and share with others along the way. Feel free to reach out to us via e-mail ([email protected]) or Twitter (@wesatswitcharch).