
A pinball-playing software engineer found a stubborn campus problem hiding between two databases. The company he built to solve it now sits inside SwiftConnect, translating schedules into millions of quiet decisions at the door.

He started with refurbished UNIX machines and kept changing the company before the market could change it. Thirty years later, Rick Cantu's durable advantage still sounds almost unfashionably simple: listen closely, own the outcome, and earn the next call.
Paul Mazzo is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Technology Integrators, Inc., an IT services firm specializing in structured cabling, network integration, physical security, audio/visual systems, and managed services. He has led the company since January 2004, following a stint as Project Director of Information Technology at Pfizer. His work sits at the seam where copper meets code - the unglamorous plumbing that keeps modern enterprises running.