Your partner for
secure government
and enterprise IT.
Strategically planned. Securely operated. Personally supported. Across the United States and Nigeria.
Six industry certifications held across the leadership team.
Cisco and Microsoft credentials earned in the field, not collected on a shelf. The people who hold them are the people on your project.
Seven disciplines, five focus areas.
Most providers sell one of these and subcontract the rest. We hold all of them in house, so the joins between them are ours to manage rather than yours to referee.
Network Design, Support & Integration
We specify, install and maintain the wired and wireless infrastructure your organisation runs on, from structured cabling and riser through to switch configuration.
Once it is live we monitor it continuously against the response times written into your agreement, so a fault is something we are already working on rather than something you have to report.
Security
Physical and network security designed as one system rather than bought as two. IP surveillance, credentialed access control, perimeter hardening and endpoint protection, specified against the standards your sector is actually held to.
Our Chief Technology Officer ran the Network Operations and Security Center at BAE Systems, so incident response here is built on operational experience rather than a checklist.
Telecom & Audio Visual
VoIP and unified communications, including carrier coordination and number porting. Migrations are sequenced so your lines stay live through cutover, because a phone system down for an afternoon costs more than the project saved.
The same team fits out the rooms those calls happen in: conference rooms, command centers and training facilities, delivered as one commissioned build with operator training.
Cloud & Application Development
Assessment, migration and managed operations across public, private and hybrid environments. Where each workload lands is decided on cost, latency and data residency, not on which platform we happen to resell.
Alongside it we build scalable information management systems and enterprise wide workflow, integrated with the databases, directories and reporting you already run.
Programme & Project Management
A named project manager, a written schedule and a change process, on engagements spanning multiple trades, sites and stakeholders.
This is the discipline that stops the other six failing at the joins between them, and it is the reason clients who start with one service tend to consolidate the rest.
What makes First Hightower different.
Most infrastructure projects fail at the handoffs, where the cabling contractor passes to the network vendor, who passes to the audio visual installer, who points at the electrician. We hold all seven disciplines in house, so the seams are ours to manage rather than yours to referee.
Customer solutions that work efficiently, effectively, everyday. You will see it in everything from digital document conversion through to the development and integration of software for enterprise wide workflow management. It is the standard we measure delivery against, not a slogan.
Our leadership has delivered at the U.S. Department of Health, at BAE Systems and Verizon Business, and for the Lagos State Judiciary. That is the level of scrutiny our processes were built under, and it applies whether the engagement is a single conference room or a multi site rollout.
We operate from Bowie, Maryland in the Washington metropolitan area and from Lagos, Nigeria. Clients working across both regions get the same specification, the same documentation and the same accountable team, rather than a local subcontractor working to a different standard.
Lagos State Judiciary
The Judiciary Information System.
Our team of ICT professionals from the United States and Nigeria worked with the Lagos State Honorable Chief Judge and the commissioned ICT committee to design, develop and deliver an e-filing and case management platform, the first of its kind in Nigeria.
Litigants and the public file suits and make payments online over a secured web portal. Legal counsel file from their chambers and track cases from anywhere in the world through a secure login. Judges manage cases from assignment and scheduling through hearing, judgment and post judgment.
Who our solutions are built for.
We support organisations at very different stages and scales, and the same standard of documentation, scheduling and handover applies to each of them.
Government agencies
Public institutions that need documented delivery, defined response times and a contractor who understands procurement. Our flagship work with the Lagos State Judiciary and the U.S. Department of Health was delivered to exactly this standard.
Enterprise and commercial
Organisations consolidating a fragmented set of vendors into one accountable relationship, typically starting with network or security and expanding once they see what a single schedule does to delivery.
Education and training institutions
Integrated networks for schools and tertiary institutions, computer education built into the curriculum, web based distance learning, and computer based training centres that equip people with employable skills.
The people who will run your project.
Sanni Eniola
Began as a Systems Engineer more than two decades ago. Competencies across business process management, application design, network design and administration, integrated security and unified communications. At the U.S. Department of Health he led the engineering team behind the Integrated Health Information Reporting System.
Ola Aiyegbusi
Seventeen years managing network design, installation and operations for multimillion dollar organisations. Previously at Verizon Business Managed Hosting Services and BAE Systems Information Technology, where he ran the Network Operations and Security Center and coordinated enterprise incident response.
Victor Akinpelumi
Began as a Systems Analyst with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation across multiple IT capacities and subsidiaries, then worked with multinationals in oil and gas. Competencies in systems administration, heterogeneous systems management, project management and collaboration systems.
Let us plan it properly first.
Send the scope, the site and the deadline. You get a reply from someone technical, not a sales queue.
Bowie, Maryland
P.O. Box 2108Bowie, MD 20715
Lagos
1D Aderibigbe Shitta StreetMaryland, Lagos