Custom Announces the Promotion of John McSweeney to COO

Custom Computer Specialists, Inc., Long Island’s leading privately held technology solutions provider, announced today the promotion of its Senior Vice President, John McSweeney to Chief Operating Officer (COO).
As COO, McSweeney will be responsible for overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations and strategic initiatives reporting directly to Gregory Galdi, Custom’s founder and CEO.

Becoming the company’s 50th employee, McSweeney joined Custom in 1992 as Manager of Consulting Services. In 1994, he was promoted to Vice President of Client Services and again to Senior Vice President in 1998. During his tenure at Custom, McSweeney has been instrumental in the solution design and quality assurance for the majority of the company's largest solutions/clients. Overall, he has made a significant impact in growing the Company's service business and personnel to currently well over 200 technical personnel and over 300 employees in total. Additionally, McSweeney was a driving force in the successful re-engineering of the company from a Computer Reseller with approximately 5% of its overall revenues coming from services to a full service System Integrator with approximately $70M/year in revenue of which approximately 75% comes from services.

McSweeney’s impressive background includes years at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he worked on a number of large customer engagements and ultimately ended up consulting to Andersen’s in-house consultants on necessary LAN/WAN architectures upon which to run large System Implementations.

McSweeney holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and currently resides with his family in East Setauket, NY.