IT Weapons was born June 16th, 2000...Founded by Jason MacBean and Ted Garner. In just over a decade they have built an award winning, multi-million dollar company of over 60 people.

Jason and Ted first met working in the IT department at one of Canada’s leading aerospace companies. In the late nineties, the corporation committed to outsourcing the entire IT staff. Ted left to join a Markham-based technology reseller to kick start their new Professional Services department. Jason stayed on with the outsourced IT firm, becoming a leading member of their technical escalation team in Ontario.

Frustrated by the IT industry's common practice of over-promising, under-delivering, and quick-buck product sales, Ted began dreaming of the ideal consulting company; a company committed to providing effective solutions rather than empty sales promises. Our founders re-united when Ted convinced Jason to join him at the Markham-based VAR as their new Chief Technical Architect.

Together they helped grow the Professional Services department into a multi-million dollar consulting group supporting a range of small, medium, and enterprise customers.  They still weren't satisfied.  They were once again fed up with the large corporate practice of focusing on product sales rather than objective consulting advice.  They were tired of being alienated from their own hard work. In early 2000, Ted and Jason decided it was time to fill a need in the IT marketplace; to start a team founded on honest, business-centric technical expertise; no sales quotas and no commissions.  The idea was simple: know your stuff, do a good job, act with integrity, and success will come.  And it certainly did.

Jason and Ted began meeting every morning at 7am at their new ‘office’: a Dixie Road coffee shop in Mississauga. Within 2 months of leaving the Markham VAR, Ted and Jason were designing and implementing some of the largest network deployments in the Caribbean; working closely with Bermuda’s government and various large investment firms.  At home, their reputation as networking and server-based computing experts continued to grow; becoming Canada’s first IT firm to receive formal consulting training and recognition from application delivery pioneer Citrix Systems.  As their customer base continued to grow—based on referrals alone—Ted and Jason began expanding the IT Weapons team. By the end of their first year, the team had grown to 5 people.

Since that first year, the IT Weapons team has continued to grow in accordance with our founders’ vision.  And we remain committed to the company’s core values as a simple formula for success and securing long-term customer loyalty:

isn’t it time you felt safe?