Marcus Falz

Meet the owner of Falz & Associates, Marcus Falz.  Falz & Associates is an infrastructure and data center consulting company. They look at how to stack technology and what capacity it can hold. Also, it is the footprint for the networks in the data center. Falz & Associates will look at capabilities where things are going to match and what equipment to purpose. Marcus is a consult with over 30 years of experience. Back in March of 2017 he started Falz & Associates due to being laid off by his employer. Marcus knew it would be a process until he found something. At the time he had a couple of the customers he was working with ask for his help.  That is when he decided to become a consultant. Fighting the good fight is what motivates him to want to succeed, along with his wife and kids, and his faith in himself.

Marcus stumbled into the IT world. Back in college he landed a job working the graveyard shift. This worked out perfect since he would go to school during the morning hours. He was then able to work and make money at night. While working at this position he worked on main frame operations for high rise offices, corporate centers, and data centers. There are a couple of draw backs in his field. Such as being misunderstood and lack of leadership at times. There will be times when he will be working with a company and their upper management might not know what is important and what isn’t important. Especially when working with a company that has 22,000+ uses nationwide. Another setback might be working on high rise towers as they pose a lot of obstacles with the material inside the buildings structurally.

There are a couple of obstacles Marcus has overcome along his career. Most of them have been business obstacles. An example is having a client want something is specific but they do not have the money in their budget to do it. Or when a company buys out another company and a new data center would have to come into play. Some employees might be on the defensive end and think that the new company is taking over. There also can be quality compliance obstacles that will come into play. Especially if your client is in the banking or medical field. Dealing with auditors is not always easy. There are guidelines and rules that some auditors are clueless about and do not understand why they cannot have access to that customers data base.

Marcus has had several mentors along his career. Some of which he has developed strong friendships with. He believes it is extremely important to have several mentors throughout your career. His mentors have provided him with wisdom, experience, and the hard truth. Sometimes the hard truth were things he didn’t want to hear. Some mentors have passed, some have retired, and some he is still close with.

Stability is one quality Marcus looks for in a company. He will do his research and become firmly entrenched with what that company is currently doing to move ahead of the completion. Another quality is how that company values their workers and how they take care of their employees. His belief is if they don’t take care of their employees they have failed as a company.  Some advice he offered me was to find out what their mission statement is. If they haven’t figured out their mission statement or if you do not agree with it, you should move on.

Marcus has become successful because he cares about the organizations/companies he consults. He is also an avid reader in technology to keep up with trends and programs that come up. He likes to absorb technology to make him the best he can be at his job. Technology is wonderful. If you are planning on going into the technology field Marcus would like you for you to keep an open mind. What you may want to happen today may not happen. But keep an open mind and eyes and ears open because it would happen along the way.

It is ok to talk some personal life in the business setting. And it is ok to talk some business life in your personal setting. Both your work life and personal life are going to impact you. In different ways but they will come together at some point. It is hard at times to separate the two. When you have a bad day at work you tend to take it home. And sometimes you cannot stop thinking about a fight you might have had with your partner the night before. But it is important to try to separate them as much as possible.