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Sonacom resumes hiring after securing $2 million in contracts

by Margaret Jackson Originally published February 1-7. 2002 in the St. Louis Business Journal After the economic downturn forced Sonacom to lay off six employees in November, the company has landed a number of new contracts. During the last month, the IT consulting and integration form has closed in the institutional and education markets worth […]

Sonacom IT Partners selected for The Plaza in Clayton

Originally published September-October 2001, St. Louis Construction News and Review. Sonacom IT Partners has been selected to connect residents of The Plaza in Clayton’s 30-story, 387,000-square-foot luxury residential tower to voice, video and data networks, providing technology that will be limited only to their imaginations. Sonacom will provide network cabling for the 82 condominiums, customizing […]

Wireless LAN Tracks 30,000 Tons of Chocolate

Originally published July 2001, TRANSPORTATION & DISTRIBUTION Magazine Sonacom IT Partners–a voice video, and data services firm–and Option Technologies Inc.–a supplier of wireless data system products—-have designed and implemented a wireless local-area network (LAN) to track inventory at Lanter Co.’s Madison, IL, warehouse—-the site from which 30,000 tons of Hershey’s chocolate is distributed to seven […]

McNeil Buys Majority Stake in Sonacom IT Partners

Originally published April 2001 in St. Louis Commerce. Mike McNeil, longtime vice president of Sonacom IT Partners, purchased a majority interest in the St. Louis-based IT engineering firm from founder Rick Oertli. The announcement followed McNeil’s promotion to president of Sonacom in December. Oertli started a new career as executive vice president of Guarantee Electric […]