Chad Lauterbach Biography
The Early Days
Chad Lauterbach started in IT and technology at a very early age. He had computers both at school and at home when he was young. He enjoyed taking things apart and putting them back together. Early on, he learned some BASIC coding on an old Commodore computer and worked with his teachers in the Apple computer labs. He got his first professional opportunity at 14, working as an Intern at a life insurance company over the summer. They had a mixed AS/400 and Novell setup with Windows workstations. Then, in high school, he got to work on an early Microsoft NT 4.0 roll-out at Mayo Clinic and Hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, on the evenings and weekends. This early experience gave him a young start on his journey to being an IT professional.
Chad Lauterbach – Still A Tech At Heart
Be Structured is unique because our Founder, in fact, holds the CTO/CISO titles. He is still highly involved and passionate about the technology our team and clients use. Today, it helps him take high-level business requirements and ensure they are delivered to the configuration level.
Chad Lauterbach’s Early Career
In his early days, Chad Lauterbach got his first full-time job as an IT Manager at Pacific Logistics, a logistics company. He built most of the early IT environment from the ground up before setting off for a healthcare startup called Arete Sleep Health, and built the entire environment and team from scratch. Other opportunities presented themselves along the way, including chances to do consulting work with small shops on nights and weekends. Chad began to see a significant need for smaller firms (sub-500 people) to have access to high-quality IT support and IT department-style resources without the required investment.
Chad Lauterbach Starts Be Structured Technology Group
In 2007, Chad Lauterbach finally set off to form Be Structured. Initially starting as a traditional break-fix IT Support company, Chad quickly saw the industry moving to a Managed IT Services Provider model and away from break-fix. In the early days of Be Structured, one constant challenge was working with customers to address issues and aging hardware before they became problems, not after they became emergencies. The fixed fee MSP model allowed us to pivot to provide the proactive support our clients needed at a price they could afford.
Chad Lauterbach Takes BSTG To The Next Level
Be Structured has been lucky to experience consistent growth over the years. With a five-star Google review and many happy customers, we are grateful for the position we find ourselves in within the competitive IT Services space in Los Angeles. Now, with thousands of endpoints, over 25 employees, a fantastic office in downtown Los Angeles, and data center services, we are a one-stop shop for our clients’ IT needs. Recently, we have been expanding into security services with a SOCaaS and compliance manager on our team ready to manage our Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) needs, as well as a practice of moving many of our clients to complete Azure/WVD setups.
Chad also serves on the Board of Directors for The Fault Line, a non-profit news outlet based in Southern California.
