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Founder and CEO · Secure Techies · Canoga Park

Alex Shaw

Alex Shaw is the founder and CEO of Secure Techies. He helps Southern California businesses run secure, reliable IT they can grow on, without building an internal department to do it.

  • 20+Years in enterprise IT
  • 2016Company founded
  • Hands-onStill in the work
  • SoCalBased in Canoga Park
Talk with the team About the company (818) 450-5384

The person who built the firm

Alex has more than twenty years in enterprise IT infrastructure, managed services, cybersecurity, cloud, and technology consulting. He has designed and supported environments for small and midsize businesses and for larger organizations that had outgrown a single in-house generalist.

The stack is the one Southern California firms actually run: Microsoft 365 and Azure, VMware, HPE infrastructure and dHCI, Cisco UCS, enterprise storage, backup and disaster recovery, cybersecurity, endpoint management, networking, virtual desktops, and hybrid cloud. He does not treat those as logo slides. They are the rooms he has had to keep up.

Before Secure Techies took all of his time, Alex worked as an IT infrastructure and solutions architect. The projects looked familiar: modernize aging hardware, close security gaps, cut downtime, and stop buying the wrong gear. That is still the work. The difference is he now owns the relationship after the install.

He works with organizations across Southern California and farther out. The offer is managed IT, security, cloud, Microsoft 365, recovery, infrastructure consulting, technology procurement, and the kind of strategic IT leadership a mid-size firm cannot hire as one employee. You get that judgment without carrying the payroll of an internal enterprise department.

How he actually works

Not a sales motion. The habits the firm was built on.

  • Hands-on

    Alex stays in the client work. Assessments, architecture, and the hard calls do not get handed to a nameless queue.

  • Proactive

    Watch the environment, patch it, and plan the next year. Waiting for something to break is not a strategy.

  • Long-term

    The point is a partnership, not a project that ends when the invoice is paid. Strategic planning stays on the calendar.

How he runs the company

IT should support the business, not slow it down.

Alex stays in the client work. Secure Techies is built to watch systems, harden security, and plan the next year, not to wait for a ticket that says the server is already down. That is the whole philosophy. Everything else is execution.

Where the twenty years went

These are the platforms and problems he has actually designed around. Not a certification wall. The environments most of our clients already own.

  • Microsoft 365 Identity, mail, and the tenant work law firms live in
  • Azure and hybrid cloud When the office and the cloud have to act like one system
  • VMware and VDI Hosts, clusters, and desktops that have to survive a bad Friday
  • HPE and dHCI Infrastructure you can expand without starting over
  • Cisco UCS and networking The wire and the chassis underneath the applications
  • Storage, backup, and DR Copies that restore, not just jobs that report green
  • Cybersecurity and endpoints The controls that keep a phishing email from becoming a week off
  • Architecture and buying What to replace, what to keep, and what not to sign

A short timeline

No invented awards. The work, in order.

  1. 01

    Enterprise infrastructure

    Twenty-plus years designing and supporting Microsoft, VMware, HPE, Cisco, storage, and security environments for firms that cannot guess at uptime.

  2. 02

    Solutions architect

    Led modernization projects: aging hardware, weak security, too much downtime, and technology spend that needed an adult in the room.

  3. 03

    Secure Techies, 2016

    Founded the company in Canoga Park so Southern California businesses could have that same help as an ongoing partnership, not a one-time project.

  4. 04

    Founder and CEO now

    Still on the assessments, the architecture, and the hard calls. The team runs the day. He does not disappear after the contract is signed.

What to hire the firm for

If you want the work Alex built Secure Techies to do, start here. These are the same services he listed as the day job, not a separate product catalog.

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Questions people ask

Who is Alex Shaw?

Alex Shaw is the founder and CEO of Secure Techies, a managed IT and cybersecurity company in Canoga Park, California. He has more than twenty years in enterprise infrastructure, Microsoft 365, cloud, and security work for small and midsize firms as well as larger environments.

When did Alex Shaw start Secure Techies?

Secure Techies has been operating since 2016. Alex founded the company and still leads client work from the Canoga Park office at 21515 Vanowen Street.

What does the founder of Secure Techies do day to day?

He stays in the work: assessments, architecture, cybersecurity, Microsoft 365, backup and recovery, and the calls that cannot wait for a ticket queue. The company is built around proactive monitoring and planning, not waiting for something to break.

Where is Alex Shaw based?

Canoga Park, in the San Fernando Valley. He works with organizations across Southern California and supports clients farther out when the engagement does not depend on a weekly truck roll.

How do I reach Secure Techies leadership?

Call (818) 450-5384 or use the contact page. There is no separate executive switchboard. The same team that runs the environments answers.

Want that kind of IT on your side?

A free assessment. No deck. A clear read on the environment and what would matter first.

Contact Secure Techies (818) 450-5384