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SyracuseAdvanced ITSusan FahrenkrugErnst and YoungContractPayroll modernizationMayor Ben WalshWhistleblowerSusan Fahrenkrug started her own tech business in Syracuse’s Southside Innovation Center in 2017. She has gradually built Advanced IT into a multi-million dollar business with increasingly large projects as a managed service provider.
“I love this city. I would really love to do business with Onondaga County and the City of Syracuse. So, I found a contract opening,” Advance IT CEO Susan Fahrenkrug explained. That was in 2021. Advanced IT made the list to do general technical services for the city. But, no work came from that status.
In the summer of 2022, a phone call came to her office out of the blue from Ernst and Young also known as EY. “EY told me that because we're local and we have an existing contract with the City of Syracuse, that we should be the prime contractor for the payroll modernization project,” Fahrenkrug said.
Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh said it was his administration that reached out to Advanced IT and brought them together with EY. “The way that it was explained to me was that we wanted to work with EY. We needed additional management support, and that Advanced IT could, could provide that,” Walsh said.
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