In 2003, Carey Pachla joined Fast Switch, Ltd.; essentially, a start-up at the time. Over 16 years, she built the division she started into a best-in-class and purpose-driven organization with hundreds of team members servicing multiple organizations, which range in size from Fortune Top 10 to mid-size and start-up organizations.
At the beginning of 2020, Carey Pachla purchased the Fast Switch, Ltd division she oversaw from infancy, to form FastTek Global (FTG). Soon after, the FastTek Global team began to expand the vision for the organization with aspirations to grow into a national and international company. As FTG launched new divisions in North America, the United Kingdom, and India, Carey has demonstrated great strength and success as a leading woman entrepreneur.
Carey has not only distinguished herself as a leader in Tech but also prioritized promoting women through the FTG enterprise and providing internship opportunities to women with the goal to grow women in tech. Carey also believes that influencing external communities is important. At Carey’s direction, FastTek launched a diversity staffing service in partnership with our clients to commit to setting aside a portion of their headcount for the purpose of minority hiring with a focus on women. The program combines placement and career development through an apprentice-style program of mentorship. In 2024, we expect to have 30+ women participate in this program.
Personally, Carey’s Pride Points continue to include:
- Community give-back at the forefront of business
- Providing women with amazing mentors throughout their journey
- Promoting Women-Owned Business Enterprises
Carey tirelessly pursues these goals through enterprise and community involvement. In 2017, she served on the MCWT board of directors as president and now sits on MCWT’s advisory board. She also serves as the chair of GreenPath’s board of trustees. Additionally, Pachla and FTG support numerous Tech intern programs, such as their partnership with Focus: HOPE (a Detroit-based non-profit) which is building a strategic community outreach program. Carey also serves on the Information Systems Management (ISM) Advisory Board at the Mike Ilitch School of Business at Wayne State University.
About FastTek Global
The FastTek team is proud of our reputation for providing a diverse dynamic place to work. Our priority is ensuring that our team members find success. From the start, FastTek has been a purpose-driven organization focused on enabling our clients to dream big. We are proud of the way we have evolved to become a company with national and international reach.
What We Do
We enable our clients to DREAM BIG through flexible and adaptable service offerings from staffing, technical delivery, managed services, offshore services, and executive search. Dream BIG and we will deliver your technological needs on a global scale through local care.
We enable companies to transform and innovate as an extension of your team. We enable companies to find thought leaders that drive success. We enable companies to meet commitments by delivering critical solutions quickly.
TECH STAFFING
Delivering critical talent quickly is in our DNA. Having the talent to deliver to commitments is a top concern of C-suite executives. As technology evolves at a faster pace, organizations struggle to keep pace with evolving skills. It is easy for an organization to dream big dreams, but execution often fails due to a talent gap that needs to be addressed. FastTek enables organizations to focus on their mission by quickly delivering essential talent. We accomplish this through several models:
- Traditional Contract Staffing – we provide talent a person at a time
- Contract-to-hire Staffing – Flexibility and ability to hire our consultants
- Direct Hire Services – Total flexibility to meet our client’s needs
- “Talent Teams” – we provide talent a team at a time
- Talent Growth and Diversity Initiatives – Partnering together to grow local diverse talent
Recruiting is at the core of what we do and we do it well—from innovative ways to attract and find talent, to in-depth screening of candidates, to thorough onboarding procedures to ensure a client’s successful initiative. One of our recruitment pride points is that we can deliver talent previously undiscovered in the market because 40% of our hires and placements come from a network built over nearly 20 years, not the standard job boards. This has allowed us to scale emerging talent across high-volume Fortune 500 companies. We have built our network on trust, delivery, industry knowledge, and most importantly top-notch treatment of consultants and clients.
TECHNICAL DELIVERY
Enabling companies to find thought leaders that drive success. We explore, discover, co-create, and deliver on your vision through our best practices, past success stories, and global expertise. Our technical solutions will drive cost savings while gaining access to mission-critical specialized skills and expertise. Our solutions will allow you to scale quickly while leveraging flexible engagement models. We know how to navigate challenges such as multiple vendor management, communication barriers, cultural differences, and potential security and privacy risks. Our methods include knowledge transfer, service delivery, performance monitoring, risk management, and relationship management to ensure that engagements are delivered seamlessly.
Case Studies
Seamless Migration | Improved Analytics | Customer Insights (Fortune 25 Global Company)
At a Glance: Our client was seeking a partner to migrate a Market and Sales application to a new cloud environment, adding improved analytics.
What we did: FastTek was responsible for moving applications to the cloud while building and operationalizing measurement frameworks for web properties. The FastTek team monitored and reported on performance on web properties across digital channels, including tracking key metrics such as traffic and engagement. Additionally, our team developed enhancements to marketing engagement metrics on the site and built and maintained performance reports and dashboards using Adobe Analytics.
This resulted in:
- Cost-effective development
- Proof points for new technology
- Fast release and quick time to market
- Scaled solutions that gave immediate results
Innovation | Improved Security | Competitive Advantage (Fortune 25 Automotive Company)
At a glance: Our large automotive client had a goal of becoming a leader in automotive vehicle and mobility solutions. FastTek Global team forged new innovations to shape the future of product development security for vehicles.
What we did: FastTek Cybersecurity COE ensured systems, features, and components were designed using robust engineering processes including threat analysis, risk assessment, adoption of security requirements, security audits, and vehicle ecosystem assessments. This project resulted in a 2x acceleration of time-to-market solutions for in-vehicle mobility platforms.
MANAGED SERVICES
Driving transformation and innovation as an extension of your team. Digital transformation will bring massive change to every industry and technology will be the driver of change. Technology will reshape industry boundaries, bringing together the power of prediction with an emerging intelligent edge to solve a unique set of new business challenges previously thought unsolvable.
FastTek is actively solving enterprise business challenges by helping to define business problems, frame strategic initiatives, and develop technical solutions that accelerate target outcomes. Our Sprint Teams are a team at a time, a sprint at a time. Sprint Teams are an adaptable solution to help you address capacity needs in a plug-and-play fashion.
CULTURE | COMPETENCY | TEAM MEMBER TRUST
We are recognized as a leader in corporate culture. Ranked as one of the best companies to work for 10+ years, our team members feel valued and motivated to help our clients succeed. At FastTek Global, our people are our number one priority. Every day we come to work and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. We love what we do because we are able to positively impact our team members’ careers. FastTek is an incredible and fun workplace with a team of great leaders. FTG’s culture allows its people to work in their own space to strive as successful individuals by adding value and growth.
COST-EFFECTIVE OFFSHORE SOLUTIONS
Delivering technology at a global scale through local care. Legacy IT Operations are expensive to run and risky to sunset. Innovation POC is needed to build your future but can result in a sunk cost that needs to be contained. Our India-based teams will allow you to manage your “today” costs while rationalizing your “tomorrow” investments. FastTek Global is big enough to deliver but small enough to care. Our customer journey is seamless regardless of where we deliver. Our India-based service will ensure you can leverage a large talent pool with local accountability and get the best value from our partnership.
