John Corn, President
JOHN L. CORN has applied the 20 years of diverse technology experience to form what is now Contracted Services,Inc. In 1986 Mr. Corn was a commercial pilot where he began to learn about business to business services. Mr. Corn started his first business of delivering lost baggage for airlines. Mr. Corn experimented with the first commercial Real Estate MLS through the use of Bulletin Board Systems on PCs using high-speed modems. Mr. Corn was also responsible for the first published Southeastern Sport Flyer , a tabloid style paper for sport pilots . Novell, DOS and Unix systems were leading networks at the time. Friends in technology businesses dealing with Telex machines asked Mr. Corn to help bring them into the world of PCs. Mr. Corn was programming Telex machines for these businesses while in the background he was finding a way to apply the communications of Telex to a PC.
With knowledge of Novell systems Mr. Corn started Computronic Systems, Inc. and was contracted by Household Mortgage in Tampa to help with the networks. Based in Chicago, Household Mortgage began using Mr. Corn’s company regularly as a Florida based IT support team. This soon spread to other companies such as Huntington Mortgage, Vista Card International, and a handful of other financial organizations.
In 1992 Mr. Corn was asked to design an automated mortgage computer system for a start up company known as Transland Financial, a mortgage lender backed by Crown Bank in Orlando, FL. With Novell as a backbone mortgage brokers were able to send and receive mortgage applications via laptop computer to Transland Financial where in turn they were automatically underwritten, approved or disapproved and returned within 15 minutes. This system was used for several years when Crown Bank took over and acquired it for its own use. Years later Mr. Corn moved on to a contract by CompUSA to design a corporate IT service department capable of bringing CompUSA across from retail only into business to business support. As the contract ended John began a new business named Ontec, Inc. with a focus on small business computers and onsite services.
Mr. Corn decided to move into the corporate world of computer project management with Aegon and Sykes. Sykes hired Mr. Corn to inventory the 225,000 computers of General Electric. Soon after the completion of the inventory Mr. Corn was asked to manage the projects of updating those same 225,000 systems. Unhappy with the amount of travel Mr. Corn moved on to Westinghouse Remediation Services later known as WRS Remediation as IT Director. Mr. Corn stayed with WRS until July of 2000.
Contracted Services, Inc. is the product of John Corn applying the knowledge and experience of corporate IT management to the onsite services business. With one of the first businesses to guarantee an annual cost cap via monthly services without a signed contract, Contracted Services has excelled in the Tampa Bay region. Doing business as Secom, this business quickly became the model for other computer businesses wanting the stability of planned income. Secom was sold in 2005 as an asset of Contracted Services, Inc.
Susan Corn, Secretary
SUSAN E. CORN is our Secretary and our office manager. With a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Christian Brothers College, Susan brings strong office organization and management skills into our company. Her banking background plus 15 years of team management in the medical industry has allowed her to keep our business office running smooth.
Susan began her career in the banking industry. Working at an established bank, Bank of Florida, she managed the back office functions including; running proofs, ATM Administration, IRA Administration, and Accounting. Later, with 10 years tenure Susan would prove instrumental in a startup bank, Countryside Bankers. At this bank she was responsible for the Customer Service aspect of the office. Responsibilities included the training of representatives, telephone banking, and setup of procedures. She worked closely with software representatives in the setup of banking computer systems and programs.
In 1990, Susan was appointed to be the Office Manager for Allergy Associates, a busy medical office in central St. Petersburg. Her 16 year career with the company has allowed her to learn every aspect of running a corporation. She is solely responsible for the management of the office. Her Staff Management duties include hiring, training, and day to day administration of human resources. She is also responsible for marketing and the presentation of the office to the public.
