Mark Kittrell sees his firm, Team Technologies Inc., in much the same light as an insurance company.

“You hope you never need us,” said Kittrell, vice president of business development for the data-management organization.

But when the Cedar River started sloshing by its banks and sending society fleeing from their homes and businesses across the region, there were a few companies providing fundamental services that likely were thankful for Kittrell’s organization.

Team Technologies, which owns and manages a documents

center in Cedar Falls, provided expertise — and, in some cases, sanctuary — for hospitals, a local utility company, telephone systems and even cable-television service that were able to continue to operate through the chaos that was the Flood of 2008.

“The good news is we’re well up on the hill in the industrial park, and we didn’t have any problems with water,” Kittrell said, referring to Team Technologies’ Prairie Lakes details Center […]

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