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Communications, Life Safety, and Security Systems in Buildings

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Chapter 12 of Mechanical and Electrical Systems in Buildings Authors Rick Oertli, Bob Kramer, Michael McNeil Published 2001 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. COMMUNICATIONS, LIFE SAFETY, AND SECURITY SYSTEMS ARE part of the numerous auxiliary electrical systems which use electrical power to generate, process, store, or transmit information. Thus auxiliary electrical systems are also considered information systems. The […]

Jost Named President of Sonacom IS

Originally published March 2001 in St. Louis Commerce Sonacom Internet Solutions (IS), a new division of Sonacom IT Partners, has named Eric Jost as president and managing partner. Sonacom IS is a provider of web development services and filtered bandwidth to small and mid-sized companies. Jost comes to Sonacom from Boeing Corp., where he assisted […]

Oertli selling Sonacom to McNeil; to be CEO of Guarantee Electric

BY TOM ANDERSON Originally published December 2000, St. Louis Business Journal. Mike McNeil, longtime vice president of Sonacom IT Partners, has purchased a majority interest in the information technology engineering firm. The company’s founder, Rick Oertli, sold his 70 percent interest in the 16-year-old firm to McNeil and three other investors. McNeil, now president, owns […]

Commerce Comments, Fast 50 Statistics

Richard C.D. Fleming President and Chief Executive Officer St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association Originally published September 2000 in St. Louis Commerce High tech begets high tech. This is particularly true when it comes to the St. Louis Regional Technology FAST 50, an award that recognized the region’s 50 fastest growing high-tech companies that […]

Sonacom IT Partners part 2

Originally published in the St Louis Business Journal as an Advertising Supplement, January 24-30, 2000 CUSTOMER-CENTERED COMMUNICATIONS Working in the “convergence space”, Sonacom is uniquely positioned to help companies to go beyond standard telephone-based customer service and take full advantage of richly functional new communications environments. “What we offer can be classified as next-generation call […]

Sonacom IT Partners

THE GO WITH PARTNERS Originally published January 24-30, 2000, Advertising Supplement, St. Louis Business Journal “It’s ironic after 12 years, to discover that what we do has become central preoccupation of the marketplace,” says Rick Oertli, CEO and founder of Sonacom IT Partners. “We have been fortunate over that time to have acquired significant experience in […]