Sundown Solutions - Company of the Year

Company: Sundown Solutions, Denton, TX
Company Description: Sundown Solutions is a premier Microsoft Gold Partner providing a wide range of services. Sundown was established in 2006 and has grown to have global reach with projects focused in the following areas: Digital Transformation & Managed IT Services App Development - Mobile, Web, Enterprise Microsoft Consulting - SharePoint, Office 365, Azure
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Company of the Year - Computer Services - Small

Nomination Title: CoY - Computer Services - Sundown Solutions

Sundown Solutions started in 2006 in the UK. Originally focusing ondelivering security focused IT Development & Consultancy services through a select number of Security Cleared SME's.

The team partnered with Microsoft for 4 years, delivering L3 / L4 services to the worlds largest SharePoint environments across BPoS / BPoS-D, a pre-cursor to the focus being applied to the training academy and managed services consultancy. Fast forward 10 years, and Sundown Solutions has evolved into a global organization, realizing its award winning training academy goal, which benefits our FTE's, who deliver our consultancy, engineering and managed services, and our clients who benefit from highly qualified expertise to support them and their technical & business needs.

Developing and patenting innovative products, all of which are underpinned by our security encryption technology, and now market ready (such as Yellow Braceletand SES Cloud Secure) and making a real difference, return benefits of the tech we develop to the wider community.

Sundown has based its principals throughout its existence on social responsibility and community investment. We focus heavily on apprenticeships and internships and training staff internally. Sundown also donates to 22Kill and Serve Denton in the US, and youth sports teams in the UK.

We have grown from$1 million revenue in 2019 with 13employees, to $4 million revenue and 38 employees at the end of 2020. We are continuing to grow with another doubling in size projected for 2021 based on current pipeline and contracts.

Half of our staff started as interns or apprentices and have worked hard to earn their place as FTEs with the company. We take pride in our training program and the quality of engineers and developers in our organization.

Over the last year, we have donated 5% of our profits to 22Kill, partners as a Business Sponsor for Serve Denton, Donated over $2500 worth of PPE to local schools, as well as our efforts in teh UK for sponsoring youth sports leagues and donating services to the NHS for community health improvement.

The most unique thing about Sundown is our Academy. We started our first apprentice in 2015, and he is now our Head of Engineering in the UK. He is a brilliant young man who truly grew to be a phenominal engineer.

We have an 83% completion rate of apprentices in our 1 year Academy program and of those, 57% of them have been offered a role and stayed on as FTEs to this day. We focus heavily on our people and that is where our quality shines through. That has been the catalyst of our growth through the last year's global crisis.

Sundown | CSR https://www.sundownsolutions.co.uk/EN/CSR.aspx

Sundown US | Community & Charity https://sundownsolutions.com/charity.html

Sundown | Academy https://www.sundownsolutions.co.uk/EN/Academy.aspx