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Joshua Finkelstein - Chief Technology Officer
Geek is a term most would consider disparaging. Joshua Finkelstein, Chief Technology Officer for Crucial Networking, considers it a compliment.
In fact, he has the shirt to prove it.
From an early age and his first computer, a Commodore 64, |
he knew he loved computers and technology. When most households did not have a single computer, he grew up with several in his house.
Despite earning a degree in Political Science from Farleigh Dickinson University and a brief excursion to law school, Joshua returned to what he knew best: computers.
After working as a Tech Support Assistant, Network Administrator, Network Manager, Systems Engineer and Senior Systems Engineer, Joshua co-founded Crucial Networking with George Roberts. After Tim Roberts came aboard, the triumvirate leadership of Crucial Networking was born.
Once a non-compete agreement expired, Crucial Networking formed its Systems Consulting division. This allowed Joshua and his partners to create a full service organization.
Joshua Finkelstein is an avid martial artist and holds a Black Belt in Aikido and a Blue Belt in Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu. He lives in Plantsville, CT with his wife Jamie, dog Ruby, and two children, Zachary and Emily.
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George Roberts - Chief Development Officer
George co-founded Crucial Networking with Joshua Finkelstein several years ago with the goal of providing small businesses with one reliable source for technological needs.
An advertising industry veteran (George headed-up the interactive department at B2B agency Keiler & Company for |
several years), George came to the interactive world from a completely different background; Accounting. George received his BS in Accounting from the University of Connecticut in 1997. He then moved from Connecticut to Boston, MA where he worked for 2 years in the mutual fund industry as a Portfolio Administrator.
After jumping from job-to-job for those two years, George quickly learned that "it wasn't the job...it was the career." He began to teach himself web development in the evenings. Having previous experience building Visual Basic applications from a prior job (and being nearly helpless with Photoshop), George decided to make his niche backend development. In January of 1998 George landed his first freelance client, and the rest, as they say, is history.
This diversity of professional experience coupled with the self-taught nature of his skillset allows George to perform his job very well. Solving business issues with code is always a challenge, and it takes an orderly, yet creative thinker to diagnose a problem, fix it, then optimize it for the web, or to take a business process that has existed only offline for decades and transition it seamlessly to the web.
Though most of his waking moments are spent programming and prospecting for new business, in his free time George enjoys reading, cooking and working out. He lives in Bristol, CT with his wife Kelly and their daughter Audrey.
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Tim Roberts - Chief Creative Officer
Tim became a part of Crucial Networking shortly after his older brother George and Joshua founded the company, sharing their vision as well as filling the fledgling companies' need for a designer.
While studying photography and illustration at The |
University of Connecticut, Tim came to the world of web development by accident. His first web project was to create a site to showcase his own portfolio, in hopes of landing a job out of college. He then set out to do this on his own, teaching himself html, flash, and javascript. Other freelance web projects followed quickly.
Around this time, Tim graduated from The University of Connecticut with a BS in Fine Arts. On the strength of the sites he'd already created, Tim landed a job at Innovative Internet Marketing Solutions in Wallingford, CT, where he served as production specialist for a year and a half, responsible for html coding and flash banners.
It was Tim's need for a more challenging creative outlet that led him away from IIMS in the fall of 2002 and to Keiler & Company in Farmington, CT, a prominent B2B Agency. At Keiler, Tim was able to expound upon his existing skillset by creating more complex flash animations, as well as furthering his design/development skills.
Through knowledge gained from working on hundreds of successful web sites, Tim is able to bring a unique perspective to the field of web development. Deeply rooted in usability and function over form, Tim's work is always logical and intuitive while still being attractive to the viewer. The psychology of design is one of the driving forces in Tim's work. Understanding his clients, their business, and their target audience is the basis and most important aspect of any project.
A workaholic, Tim still finds time to enjoy music, photography, and traveling. He lives in Plainville, CT with his wife Cyndi and their dog Benny. |
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