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Hi and welcome to the Fast River Systems website.

What you will find here is the end result of someone working with technology for over 25 years, primarily in legal and financial firms.  Someone who has endured the slings and arrows of outrageous hardware fortune, has taken up arms against a sea of software troubles and ended them.

When working on a project I don’t seek the quick solution but the proper solution.  I don’t seek the cheap solution but the cost-effective one. I do not look at a  problem in isolation but at the interactions of the whole system as business technology is more interconnected than ever.

The greatest reward for me is to hear at the completion of a project; “Wow! This is SO much better than before!”  Whether it is simply re-writing an old SQL report so that instead of taking 7 hours to run it takes 7 minutes or designing an entire hardware and software environment to replace an outdated system, I work guided by the principle that the benefits must be real, worthwhile and achievable.

There’s an example list of services I provide and products I’ve worked with over on the Services page but that’s the boring bit.  I like to write about what I’ve experienced in the hope that you can take some value and avoid errors and disasters that happen over and over.

I look forward to hearing from you whether it is related to your system or anything on this site.

Greg Smith
President