Our expert this month is not only in the spotlight, he may have even designed and wired it too! Roy Laurent of Clear River Technical Services Corporation is owner and an active engineer among his team. With a lifelong passion for all things electronic, he used his talents to start his own business, develop a stellar reputation across the nation for his skills and gets to do what he loves on a day-to-day basis. He also used his skills to have some fun being a roadie for a touring band, providing the lighting and sound designs as well as performing pyrotechnics.
Roy didn’t always work for himself. After graduating college he worked as a Senior Technician and Engineer for a large corporation that specialized in advanced technology development. Years later, he left the corporate world to work in a new startup communications company. Unfortunately, that startup didn’t quite make it. Rather than go back to corporate, Roy did his own thing. That’s when Clear River Technical Services Corporation was born. Now, with over a decade of experience under his belt, he went from being a subcontractor for an established company to eventually buying them out and expanding his own business.
“We come from both the electrical and mechanical point of view,” says Laurent. “We do not have a ‘job shop’ mentality here. Every board that comes through here has its own solution, and that solution has to do with the customer’s needs. It has to be a manufacture-able board; it’s not something that can be whipped together, and it needs to perform. That’s clearly our advantage, we produce boards that perform at high-performance levels. That’s our specialty. People come to us because they know the job is going to get done right the first time.”
When we asked him about working with us at IT Support RI, he responded, “You guys are interested in what you are doing. I don’t feel like you guys are just ‘anybody’ walking in here. When you like what you do, you’re gonna do a good job. Your best attribute is the people that do the service love what they do.”
You can contact Roy directly at 401-568-3419 ext. 1 or check them out online at www.crtscorp.com.
