Sidney Watts, President and CEO

Sidney has been involved in the computer and electronics industry since 1975. After graduating from high school, Sidney spent three years in the U.S. Army working as an electronic/mechanical systems technician on the HAWK missile and radar system. One year of that time was spent in electronics technical school at Redstone Arsenal, AL. After being honorably discharged from the Army, Sidney attended and graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in May of 1986. Upon graduation, Sidney went to work for RCA for several years where he designed electronic circuits and wrote software programs, specializing in digital and analog electronic control systems. In May, 1996 Sidney bought into Standard Business Machines, Inc. which is now known as Southeast Digital Networks, Inc. Sidney pioneered the redevelopment of the technical department of SDN, which entailed moving from a typewriter repair facility into a State-of-the-Art company providing products and services such as sales and maintenance of computers, networks (LAN’s and WAN’s), firewalls, VPN solutions, Terminal Server solutions, POS hardware and software, Web Site design and hosting, email hosting, printers, facsimile machines, copiers, and Digital Document Management systems and just about anything else you might find in an office environment. On August 12th, 2005 Sidney founded Parallel Synergistic Consulting, Inc which primarily focuses on network design, installation and maintenance. Sidney also volunteers his time and sits on the Computer and Computer Networking School Board at the Lively Technical School.