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Safari Micro is a people-first IT solutions company helping organizations buy, modernize, and run technology with one trusted partner, combining procurement strength, platform-native delivery, and operational follow-through.

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Founder-Led Since 1997

Founded in 1997 by Erol Alexander and still 100% privately owned by founder Erol Alexander today, Safari Micro is a leading technology solutions provider headquartered in Chandler, Arizona. For nearly three decades, we have helped organizations across the United States, including businesses, K–12 school districts, higher education institutions, state and local governments, and federal agencies, procure, implement, and support the technology solutions they rely on every day.

Safari Micro was built on a simple but powerful philosophy: take care of your employees, and they will take care of your customers. After working as an account manager for a large technology reseller, Erol saw an opportunity to create a different kind of company, one that prioritized people, relationships, integrity, and long-term success over short-term transactions. That philosophy continues to guide our organization today.

As a founder-led company, Safari Micro has maintained the independence, stability, and flexibility to make decisions that benefit both our customers and employees. Nearly 30 years later, we continue to grow while staying true to the values and culture that have defined us since day one.

Erol Alexander

Founder & CEO, Safari Micro

"Take care of your employees, and they will take care of your customers."

1997

Year Founded

100%

Privately Owned

29+ Years

In Business

Chandler, AZ

Headquarters

Expertise You Can Rely On

Our success is driven by an exceptional team of dedicated professionals who are passionate about helping clients navigate an increasingly complex technology landscape. Many of our account managers and technical specialists have spent their entire careers in the IT industry, developing expertise across hardware, software, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, networking, collaboration solutions, data center infrastructure, and managed services.

We believe successful engagements begin with listening. Our team takes the time to understand your business objectives, operational challenges, and budget requirements before recommending solutions. From initial consultation through deployment and ongoing support, we focus on delivering technology solutions that align with your goals while providing consistent communication and exceptional service throughout the process.

Our mission is not simply to complete a transaction. It is to build lasting partnerships. We measure our success by the trust we earn and the value we create for our clients over the long term.

Listening First

We take the time to understand your business objectives, operational challenges, and budget requirements before recommending solutions.

Career-Deep Expertise

Many of our specialists have spent their entire careers in IT, across hardware, cloud, cybersecurity, networking, and managed services.

End-to-End Support

From initial consultation through deployment and ongoing support, we provide consistent communication and exceptional service.

Partnership Over Transaction

We measure our success by the trust we earn and the value we create for our clients over the long term.

Partnerships That Create Value

Safari Micro maintains strong relationships with many of the world's leading technology manufacturers, distributors, and cloud providers. These strategic partnerships allow us to provide comprehensive solutions, competitive pricing, and reliable access to the technologies our clients need to operate, innovate, and grow.

Whether supporting a single technology purchase, a large-scale deployment, or a multi-year strategic initiative, our team is committed to serving as a trusted advisor throughout every stage of the journey.

Featured Technology Partners

Authorized reseller and solution partner across leading manufacturers

Featured Partners

Lenovo
Cisco
HPE Aruba Networking
VMware by Broadcom
Pure Storage
Apple
Schneider Electric
Microsoft Surface
Extreme Networks
CrowdStrike

What Sets Safari Micro Apart

The technology industry is filled with providers offering similar products and services. What truly sets Safari Micro apart is our people, our culture, and our commitment to communication.

01

Our People

We take pride in building a team of highly skilled professionals who genuinely care about our clients' success.

02

Our Culture

Every member of our organization is committed to delivering solutions with integrity, transparency, and accountability.

03

Our Communication

We believe our clients deserve honest recommendations, practical guidance, and technology solutions that align with their actual business needs.

The Team Behind Safari Micro

A people-first company built by people who have spent their careers in IT and genuinely care about getting it right.

Erol Alexander

Erol Alexander

Founder & CEO

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Erol founded Safari Micro in 1997 after working as an account manager for a large Phoenix-based IT reseller, where he saw firsthand the gap between what customers needed and what large, transaction-focused companies were willing to provide. He left to build something different: a company grounded in relationships, integrity, and a genuine commitment to long-term customer success.

Today, Safari Micro remains 100% privately owned by Erol. No outside investors, no private equity, no competing priorities. That independence is intentional. It means every decision Safari Micro makes is guided by what is right for customers and employees, not quarterly earnings targets. Nearly three decades later, the company has grown from a hardware reseller into a full-lifecycle IT partner headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, serving K–12 school districts, state and local governments, federal agencies, and commercial organizations across the United States.

Erol's founding philosophy, take care of your employees and they will take care of your customers, remains the operating principle that defines Safari Micro's culture, hiring, and service delivery to this day.

Mike Day

Mike Day

Chief Operating Officer

Mike oversees Safari Micro's day-to-day operations and has been a driving force behind the company's growth across multiple dimensions. He has played a central role in expanding Safari Micro's Value Added Reseller business, deepening the company's vendor and manufacturer partnership footprint, and scaling the operational infrastructure that supports Safari Micro's growing customer base. A proven operational leader with a background in building high-performing teams, Mike has been instrumental in expanding Safari Micro's delivery capabilities, including the company's Philippines-based 24/7 helpdesk and operations teams. His focus on operational excellence and strategic partnerships has helped position Safari Micro as a trusted, full-lifecycle IT partner for organizations across the public and private sectors.

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Chris Day

Chris Day

VP of Technical Services

Chris leads Safari Micro's technical services practice, bringing more than 20 years of IT industry experience to every engagement. Over the course of his career, Chris has built deep expertise across enterprise infrastructure, managed services, professional services delivery, and client engagement. He has worked with organizations of all sizes to design, implement, and support technology environments that are built to last. At Safari Micro, Chris ensures every engagement is delivered to a documented, repeatable standard, from initial onboarding through ongoing operations, and that customers leave with the governance frameworks and operational runbooks they need to manage their environments long after the project is complete.

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Meet the IT Team

The engineers and architects who design, build, and support the solutions Safari Micro delivers every day.

Jeremy Wallace

Jeremy Wallace

Principal Cloud Architect

Jeremy Wallace is Safari Micro's Principal Cloud Architect and one of fewer than 3,500 professionals worldwide to hold the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) designation in Azure and Modern Work. The MVP award is Microsoft's most selective technical recognition, granted annually to engineers who demonstrate exceptional real-world expertise, active community contribution, and a level of platform depth that Microsoft itself relies on. It is not a certification that can be earned through an exam. It is awarded by Microsoft based on peer recognition and independent technical impact, and the majority of applicants are not selected.

Jeremy is the architect behind SafariDesktops, Safari Micro's Azure Virtual Desktop managed service, and leads the company's entire cloud modernization practice. His certifications include Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, and Microsoft Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate. These credentials, combined with his MVP status, mean Safari Micro clients have direct access to an engineer with early visibility into Microsoft platform roadmap changes and a standing relationship with Microsoft engineering teams that most regional IT partners simply cannot offer.

Every Modernize IT engagement at Safari Micro is staffed under Jeremy's technical leadership, ensuring governance frameworks, operational documentation, and admin runbooks are built to the standard his credentials demand.

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Pete Wirch

Pete Wirch

Senior Network Engineer

Pete Wirch is Safari Micro's Senior Network Engineer with more than 25 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise network infrastructure across industries ranging from K-12 school districts and municipal government to healthcare and mid-market commercial organizations. His career spans ground-up greenfield deployments to complex multi-site modernization projects where legacy infrastructure, budget constraints, and operational continuity all have to be managed in parallel.

What sets Pete apart is his vendor-agnostic platform fluency. Over 25 years he has worked extensively with all major networking manufacturers, including Cisco, Fortinet, Extreme Networks, Aruba, Palo Alto Networks, Meraki, and Juniper. That breadth means he can evaluate the right solution for each client's specific environment and long-term roadmap rather than defaulting to a single manufacturer stack. His technical scope covers the full network layer: switching, routing, WAN architecture, enterprise wireless, firewall and security policy, SD-WAN, and network segmentation.

As the technical lead for Safari Micro's network infrastructure practice, Pete brings a documentation-first discipline to every engagement. Every project produces network diagrams, configuration baselines, and operational runbooks that allow client IT teams to manage and extend their environments long after the engagement closes. For organizations that need a network built to last, Pete is the engineer they call.

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Bryan Hodges

Bryan Hodges

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Bryan Hodges is Safari Micro's Senior Infrastructure Engineer, specializing in the design, deployment, and management of enterprise IT infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. He brings deep hands-on expertise in server, storage, virtualization, and data center technologies, with a track record of delivering complex infrastructure projects for organizations across the public and private sectors.

Bryan's approach is grounded in building infrastructure that is not only functional at deployment, but maintainable, documented, and scalable over time. His technical scope spans data center refreshes, hybrid cloud integrations, and infrastructure modernization initiatives, with each solution right-sized for the organization's needs and long-term IT strategy.

As a core member of Safari Micro's technical delivery team, Bryan ensures every engagement produces the operational standards and runbooks that allow client teams to manage their environment confidently long after the project closes. For organizations that need infrastructure built to last, Bryan brings the depth and discipline to deliver it.

InfrastructureVirtualizationHybrid CloudData CenterServer & StorageTechnical Delivery
Sean Christopher

Sean Christopher

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Sean Christopher is Safari Micro's Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, with a primary specialization in Microsoft Intune deployments and modern endpoint management. He designs and implements Intune environments that give organizations centralized, policy-driven control over their device fleet, whether fully cloud-managed, hybrid-joined, or in transition from legacy on-premises management tools.

Sean's Intune expertise spans enrollment configuration, compliance policies, application deployment, conditional access integration, and Windows Autopilot provisioning. His deployments are built to be operationally sustainable, with documented policies and runbooks that allow IT teams to manage and extend the environment confidently after go-live.

As part of Safari Micro's cloud infrastructure practice, Sean works closely with Jeremy Wallace and the broader Modernize IT team to deliver end-to-end Microsoft 365 and Azure environments where endpoint management, identity, and cloud infrastructure are designed to work together from day one.

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Camille Halliburton-Huang

Camille Halliburton-Huang

Senior Systems Engineer

Camille Halliburton-Huang is a Senior Systems Engineer at Safari Micro with deep expertise in enterprise systems design, deployment, and administration. She brings a methodical, documentation-driven approach to every engagement, ensuring that the environments she builds are not only technically sound but operationally sustainable for the teams that inherit them.

Camille's experience spans server infrastructure, virtualization, identity management, and hybrid cloud environments. She works across a broad range of client environments, from mid-market organizations building out their first standardized infrastructure to enterprise customers managing complex, multi-site deployments that require careful planning and phased execution.

As part of Safari Micro's technical delivery team, Camille plays a key role in ensuring that infrastructure projects are completed on time, documented to standard, and handed off with the runbooks and operational procedures clients need to manage their environments with confidence.

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Daimond Mejia

Daimond Mejia

Infrastructure Engineer

Daimond Mejia is an Infrastructure Engineer at Safari Micro who serves as the team's primary on-site resource for customer break/fix and hands-on infrastructure support. He is the engineer customers see in person when something needs to be resolved quickly, and he brings the technical depth and composure to get environments back online with minimal disruption.

Daimond has a strong networking background and works closely alongside Pete Wirch on network infrastructure projects, supporting deployments, troubleshooting, and on-site configuration across a range of customer environments. His experience spans switching, routing, wireless, and cabling infrastructure across Cisco, Fortinet, Aruba, and Extreme platforms.

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Security You Can Verify

Safari Micro has completed a SOC 2 Type I examination of the Safari Micro Infrastructure relevant to the Security Trust Services Criteria. Our security controls, independent assurance reports, policies, and subprocessor relationships are documented and available through our Trust Center — so your security team can verify our posture before you buy.

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Continuous Monitoring

Our security controls are monitored around the clock by Secureframe, with real-time status visible in our Trust Center.

Documented Controls

Change management, access security, incident response, and vulnerability management policies are maintained and auditable.

Vendor Due Diligence

All subprocessors and technology partners undergo vendor risk assessments before being added to our supply chain.

Compliance Resources

Review available security documentation and request restricted compliance reports, including our SOC 2 Type I report, directly through the Trust Center.

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