When my son Robert and I decided to go into business together, we made our dream come true, opening the doors to our new family business in 2005. After finishing his Bachelors degree in Business Administration two years earlier, at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, Robert went on to complete the Microsoft Certified System Engineer training. At the time, I'd been a professional developer for 27 years, but I went back to a Microsoft Gold-Certified Training Center to upgrade my skills using the Microsoft .NET Framework. After six months training, I completed the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer training. My son and I were the only father-son team that had ever gone through the training cycle at the same time; and that year, I was the only person at the training center to get a perfect 1000 point score on a Microsoft Certification exam!

Both Robert and I are Microsoft Certified Professionals, and we continue to work toward higher certifications. I was inducted into "Who's Who in the Computer Industry" in 1989. Robert, is a Networking and Security specialist, a Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician, a Microsoft Small Business Specialist, a Microsoft Information Worker Solutions specialist, a Microsoft Networking Infrastructure Solutions specialist, and he has been certified by CompTIA (A+, Network+ and Security+) and by IC3. Recently, Robert was selected as a "Who's Who" VIP member of Cambridge's Who's Who Private Business Association. Out of the nearly 4 million Cambridge members worldwide, only the top 4 percent of those members are selected as VIP members.

After Robert and I made the decision to go into business together, we noticed an interest by the other family members. As it turned out, my wife Ann, a retired teacher with 33 years experience, became our Office Manager, and my daughter Teresa, who has a degree in Marketing, joined to help us gain a good footing in the local market. So, we became four equal partners in a Limited Liability Corporation named Eagle Secure Solutions. We were determined to use our strengths as a family to move forward and succeed!

Before the business began, Robert and I were Registered Microsoft Partners. Eagle Secure Solutions became a Microsoft Certified Partner shortly after the business started in 2005. Since that time, we've also become business partners with Intel, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Cisco, Acer, Seagate, Nvidia, Sony, Computer Associates and Diskeeper, among others, and we've been a Gold Partner with Microsoft for two years. We believe these partnerships have helped us to keep up with new technology, keep our costs down and still offer our customers superior products. We also believe these partnerships will show our customers that we have a deep commitment to always offering them the best, up-to-date hardware, software and service. Having access to this amount of technical information from our partners, allows us to research users problems and find answers much faster than usual.

Russ Yeagley, MCP
August,2006