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Parallel Partners with Women’s Advocates

This winter, Parallel’s Building Infrastructure (BI) department adopted two families through Women’s Advocates, a local domestic abuse shelter in St. Paul. They shopped for and wrapped gifts for 11 children and two mothers. With donations from employees and Parallel’s match, the BI department donated about $950 worth of gifts!

If you’d like to learn more about Women’s Advocates, feel free to visit their website at https://www.wadvocates.org/.

Check out our gallery of the event below!… Continue Reading

Tim Kittila and Chris Pinc to Speak at Data Center World

The question for businesses in today’s technological climate is not, “Do you need a data center?” rather it’s “How will you adapt your mission critical needs?” Companies are becoming ever more at risk of losing what little control they have over their company’s data – and while brick-and-mortar builds may seem to be losing momentum, the need for client-specific, integrated solutions to an ever increasing technological wave is only becoming more apparent. Come hear what two of Parallel’s foremost authorities on the subject have to say about your data center ecosystem!… Continue Reading

Mark Bonde Promoted to Building Infrastructure Sales and Marketing Director

Parallel Technologies has promoted Mark Bonde to the Director of Building Infrastructure Sales and Marketing. An expansion of his role as Sales Manager, Bonde oversees the development of the company’s physical security offering and is responsible for all customer projects from consulting to implementation. Bonde has nearly 15 years’ experience in the physical security market. His background includes a unique understanding of both the domestic and international physical security marketplace. Since joining Parallel Technologies in 2015 as a Senior Account Executive, Bonde has helped the company’s efforts to expand its physical security capabilities while also overseeing all phases of customer projects – from consulting to design and implementation.… Continue Reading

Parallel Holiday Party 2018

This year Parallel celebrated the holidays together at Top Golf, which recently arrived to the Twin Cities. This unique event, hosted by the Culture Committee, gave employees a chance to try their hand at a driving range. The object of the game was to hit your ball out onto various targets on the green (each worth a different amount of points). It was a fun and cozy experience with great places for employees to visit with one another and later we enjoyed a delicious dinner in one of the event rooms.… Continue Reading

Chris Reyes Earns Master Electrician

Chris Reyes, Electrical Engineer at Parallel Technologies has recently earned the title of Certified Master Electrician. After studying and passing the Master Electrician’s Class A certification test, he was awarded with the title on November 27th, 2018. Chris answered some questions for us about what this means to him as well as what this means for all of us at Parallel!

 

Q: What does this mean for your career and for Parallel as a whole?

A: This gives me the ability to start submitting electrical designs for our projects in Minnesota.… Continue Reading

Ugly Holiday Sweater Competition 2018

LuAnn Engelhardt, Chris Reyes, John Ray, Tom Cannon, Norm Spear, Josh Klein, Katie Bensen, Elisabeth Kyro, Chantel Folden, and Jeff Jungers

This year in keeping with Parallel tradition, the Culture Committee hosted an Ugly Holiday Sweater Competition with the trophy being bestowed upon Norm Spear, Director of Building Infrastructure. The competition was quite heated and many spectacularly ugly ensembles graced the floor this year, but the deciding factor was some humble detailing on the back of Norm’s sweater. As always, there were many laughs and a great amount of holiday cheer enjoyed by all!… Continue Reading

Siemens Recognizes Parallel

During its first year as a Siemens Solution Certification Partner, Parallel was recognized (and rewarded) for significantly exceeding its 2018 sales goal. Chris McPartland, General Manager of Building Automation and Jay Stark represented at the Siemens’ annual Diamond Trip to St. Kitts in early December. Parallel was one of 14 partner companies that were invited to event. Check out the photos from the trip below!… Continue Reading

Parallel Collaboration with Local Students

In 2018, Parallel Technologies and Jay Stark from the Omaha branch of our Building Automation department collaborated with students from the University of Nebraska – Omaha (UNO) and King Science Middle School to build a food computer. The open source project is a scalable automated greenhouse that is designed to grow

Through this unique project, UNO students in Dr. Sachin Pawaskar’s graduate capstone class in Management Information Systems had a hands-on opportunity to develop an IoT project while exposing the middle-school students to a new field in STEM that could spark their interest.… Continue Reading

Bonde Presents at Government IT Symposium

 

Parallel’s Mark Bonde addressed the “Future of Video Surveillance” at the recent Government IT Symposium. Mark spoke before a full room on the technology advances, the uses and applications for these technologies. His presentation highlighted how organizations are utilizing surveillance video to strengthen security.

Learn More about Physical Security –> Here!… Continue Reading