About Tim
Tim has been involved with the computer industry since 1978 when his father, Jay Rettig, founded Software Solutions in Lebanon, OH. Tim grew up working on mainframes from Cincinnati Milacron, Texas Instruments, and Sperry. In the 1980s he was involved with many XENIX and UNIX installations for cities throughout Ohio. In the early 1990′s Tim’s focus moved from serial communications toward Arcnet and Ethernet with Lantastic and Novell. In 1992 he started LAN Solutions as a networking services company to compliment his father’s software development company. The firm was involved with many challenging projects throughout the 1990′s, including Project Infoshare for the United States Department of Agriculture. In addition to network implementations, Tim partnered LAN Solutions with Houston-based Centurion Data Services, to open one of the first Internet Service Providers in the Cincinnati area.
In 2010, Tim merged LAN Solutions with Chicago based INTRUST GROUP and became president of the combined organization. The firm has become specialized in technologies from Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and Cisco. INTRUST has completed many enterprise scale projects utilizing these technologies. Over 100 organizations depend on consulting and services from Tim and INTRUST.
In addition to the business and technical achievements listed above, Tim was a featured speaker at the pcRetreat seminar series for 8 consecutive years. He was a co-host of the weekly radio show Max Bandwidth in 2000. He speaks at numerous technology events every year. He lives in Mason, Ohio with his wife Mary and two children.
SpecialtiesThin-client Computing (Citrix, Terminal Services, 2X, VDI)
IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Cluster Services
Microsoft DFS
Cisco VOIP
Juniper/Netscreen
Storage Area Networks
Virtualization (VMware & XenServer)
Cloud computing
