Hi, I’m Kyle Ellison
I’ve been fixing technology problems since I was a kid.
Seventh, eighth grade — there was a typing class with a room full of old Apple II computers that were always breaking down and getting shipped off for repair. Another kid and I talked our way out of typing class to work on them instead. We figured out what kept going wrong and fixed them ourselves. Those machines kept running until the school finally replaced them years later. That was the start.
I grew up on a ranch, where you learn to fix what breaks because there’s nobody else coming to do it. I went to college for Computer Information Systems with a minor in business, learned to program — COBOL, Visual Basic, C++ — and figured out pretty quick that programming wasn’t my game, even though I could do it. What I was good at was people and technology. So I went into sales, earned my Cisco certifications, did Microsoft work, and kept getting pulled back to the technical side because I could do the things the other reps and techs couldn’t.
In 2014 we started Ellison IT Consulting, and in May of 2015 I went all in. For over a decade I’ve kept technology running for the businesses that hold small towns together — rural hospitals and clinics, banks, ag operations, insurance agencies, and family businesses. I even learned the insurance industry from the inside by running the technology for insurance agencies — which is a whole other story about where my path led.
Here’s the thing about the work I do: no two days are ever the same, and no two businesses want the same thing. The best part of this job is sitting across from somebody, actually listening to what they need, and building exactly that. Not a package. Not a one-size box. What they need.