About Flex IT

Flex IT is the product brand of Function 10 Consulting; providing boutique independent technology solutions based in New Zealand.

We focus on providing workplaces with innovative solutions to current work-life problems while safeguarding businesses for the future.

When the pandemic began, we quickly realised that there was a need for high quality technology solutions to cater to the rapidly evolving Covid-19 environment. With increased remote and hybrid workplaces, and greater pressure on businesses to expand into the homes of their teams, we launched our brand and two critical solutions:

DNS Management service that both protects the flow of critical emails and prevents your business mail ending up in customer’s junk.
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Information protection cloud back-up services that go far beyond Microsoft protections affording extremely granular backup of an unlimited capacity, forever!
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Our key personnel have over 50 years joint knowledge and experience developing solutions for our customers and customising products like O365 to unique business needs.

Our Philosophy

At Flex IT we are about making things happen, quickly, efficiently and securely. We believe in the mantra that IT exists to support business operations in an effective manner; and that no technology should hamper or constrain any activity.

Our goal is to deliver high quality, low cost, value adding solutions that protect and optimise your business.

Focus on tomorrow, today

Maintain commercial prudence

Stretch ourselves to deliver new capabilities

Always exceed expectations

Deliver on our promises

The Team

Craig Porter – Founder and Director

Craig has nearly 30 years’ experience in IT services, across UK, Europe and where he started in break-fix repair and now leads product design and development for Flex IT as well as providing consultancy services to a cross section of businesses on a daily basis.

His passion for not doing the same thing twice extends to the earliest days where he built a floppy-disk indexing system for an ISV and PC order/build/scheduling system for a corporate during the last millennium. Nowadays Craig works alongside business leaders to help transform, modernise and deliver new ways of working that provide secure-flexible-hybrid capabilities to diverse workforces across Australasia.

Ryan Sclanders – Senior Architect

Ryan has over 23 years’ experience as an IT Professional including 19 years’ as an IT Infrastructure Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, and IT Manager. His all-round skill set has allowed him to take on roles in many different technologies, including Microsoft, Linux, VMware, SAN, backup, security, and networking technologies, with a strong focus on delivering core customer services and digital platforms in the financial, insurance and aviation sectors.

Ryan brings a dynamic and energetic problem solver team player who is able to communicate and present clearly and concisely at all levels. More importantly, he’s a great listener able to translate business goals into technical specifications and designs with tangible results.

Recce Carlyon – Consultant

Recce is an experienced Consultant with eight years professional experience across many facets of Windows and Office engineering. Over his career, Recce has both supported and moved customers from on-premise to Cloud based solutions and has extensive experience of desktop management, provisioning, security tooling and Office 365 environment build and configuration.

Recce has joined the team to grow his skills in security automation, and, optimisation of customer management and success.