Birthday Greetings to Pulse IT

Pulse IT was created 15 years ago on the 1st of July, 1999. At the time, the founder and Managing Director, Ryan Balemi was only 17 years’ old. Ryan had left school after the fifth form and went on to continue his studies at Manakau Tech or MIT and it was during his first year there that he set up PulseIT.

Prior to that, Ryan had been earning pocket money fixing his neighbours’ computers in Clevedon where he was living, placing advertisements in the Clevedon Roundup, the local paper for Clevedon residents.  As Ryan puts it, “I had always had the desire to be in business so I started PulseIT, fixing computers in my bedroom at home and attending MIT during the day”.  His clients were a handful of local businesses and one of the local schools and slowly, through ‘word of mouth’ his business grew, eventually taking in more schools and businesses outside the Clevedon area, while still attending full time study at MIT – his Certificate of Business Computing is actually still waiting there to be picked up.

Ryan relates how he was spending more and more time on his fledgling company and less in the classroom. “My cell phone would go during class and I would be out the door and pacing up and down the corridor, attending to my customers while my classmates carried on with their lesson, and I came to realise that I was far more interested in my new business than carrying on with my studies.”

Ryan employed his first staff member before his 21st birthday – an entrepreneur in the making! Ryan formed Pulse IT in the belief that mid-sized New Zealand businesses deserved the computer network innovations, efficiencies, support and economies of scale that were previously only available to well-funded corporations. PulseIT was one of the very first companies to go to a fixed price, offering preventative maintenance with a pro-active IT department and a dedicated help desk which was perceived as quite a risky manoeuvre at the time with the Windows system being so unreliable. PulseIT now provides three-year IT plans and annual budgets for their clients who are enjoying the benefits of increased productivity and return on IT investment.

For those with a curious bent, the name PulseIT was named after Ryan’s 1983 Sky Blue Nissan Pulsar and from such small beginnings the well-respected company PulseIT was born.

For more information please visit the website at http://www.pulseit.co.nz.