IT consulting company comes to Ellsworth

Posted 1/29/25

ELLSWORTH — A new business owner has been welcomed to Ellsworth as Matthew Pawlikowski opened Pawlikowski Consulting, an IT consulting company.

Pawlikowski spent 14 years in IT for a pet …

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ELLSWORTH — A new business owner has been welcomed to Ellsworth as Matthew Pawlikowski opened Pawlikowski Consulting, an IT consulting company.

Pawlikowski spent 14 years in IT for a pet food distributor in what he called “baptism by fire,” getting thrown right into the mix. He spent time as the IT manager and eventually helped build a department.

Through this time, Pawlikowski has faced all sorts of challenges and gotten a variety of perspectives.

“I’ve dealt with a lot of different industries and all the technology that they need,” Pawlikowski said. “Back in October is when I filed for my LLC to start going out on my own and basically doing the same thing for other people.”

Pawlikowski and his wife purchased a hobby farm in Ellsworth in 2023.

“My wife decided she wants to die in that house, so we’re not going anywhere,” Pawlikowski said.

When Pawlikowski decided to go on his own for IT work, he saw an opening in the market in the Ellsworth area.

Pawlikowski is looking to help out many of the small and medium businesses in the area that may not be large enough to run entire IT departments on their own.

“The best way to describe it I would say is fractional IT management,” Pawlikowski said. “The small, medium businesses that either don’t have internal staff or they’re currently using managed service providers (MSP), really what I want to do is create a relationship with them and give them an on-site IT presence.”

This presence ranges from assisting with IT planning, thinking strategically, advising software and hardware purchases, training, managing projects and more.

Pawlikowski is currently offering free consultations for businesses that might be interested in the services.

“It doesn’t hurt to at least have a conversation and really let them know who I am, what my experience is,” Pawlikowski said. “Have them talk about what challenges they’re facing and areas that I might be able to help in.”

IT is an area that changes by the day with new technology, new strategies and new ideas. Pawlikowski navigates this by going to webinars frequently and trying new tools often.
“Things are changing every day. There’s new threats and things out there every day. That’s kind of part of IT is it’s a process,” Pawlikowski said. “IT you’ve really got to be proactive, you have to be doing enough research, you have to have enough experience to know when you don’t know everything when it comes to it. Sometimes you’ve got to dig in a little bit and find things out and sometimes you just need to know when to throw in the towel and call in an expert.”

To get more information or schedule a meeting with Pawlikowski, go to https://pawlikowski.consulting/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/pawlikowski-consulting-llc or https://www.facebook.com/pawlikowskiconsultingllc/.

“I’m just excited to get started,” Pawlikowski said. “I don’t have a lot of experience from a small, independent business side of things, so I’m learning a ton there, but from the IT side, that’s the stuff that I know… from the IT side, that is the easy part for me.”

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