Wintek Corporation
427 N 6th Street
Lafayette, IN 47901-1189
Tel: +1 (765) 742-8428
Tel: +1 (800) 742-6809 [toll-free in the USA and Canada]
Fax: +1 (765) 742-0646
E-mail: info@wintek.com
Tel: +1 (765) 807-0449
Tel: +1 (800) 523-5650 [toll-free in the USA and Canada]
E-mail: support@wintek.com
Wintek Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, handicap, citizenship status, or any other basis prohibited by law, unless such basis constitues a bona fide occupational qualification. Our Application for Employment can be found here.
Wintek Corporation celebrated the 30th anniversary of its founding in 2003. Wintek is an Internet Service Provider and a reseller of Cisco Systems networking equipment serving customers located primarily in Lafayette-West Lafayette and the surrounding regions in Indiana..
Way back on May 27th of 1973 when Paul Wintz, then a Purdue professor of Electrical Engineering, started Wintek Corporation, the Internet was still just a dream in the mind of a few very farsighted thinkers. In fact in 1973, very few even knew what a microcomputer was.
Dr. Wintz founded Wintek to provide what may have been the nation's first: a short course on this fledgling new microcomputer technology. Wintek's three-day course cost $495 and included your very own 4½-by-6½-inch single-board computer based on the then-new Motorola 6800 chip. For the very serious, there was a five-day course for two-hundred dollars more.
Professor Wintz and his assistant Jim Wilson next found that there was a new market developing for specialized hardware and software designed to connect these new tiny computer circuits with industrial manufacturing equipment. For the next 20 years Wintek grew as a specialized manufacturer of single-board computers and their required software.
Special projects during that period included the software for Heathkit's Hero-1 and Hero-Jr robots, satellite projects for National Public Radio, various automation systems, and even a custom gadget for the CIA.
In 1980, Wintek moved from a house at the corner of 9th and Salem Streets to a former grocery store and motorcycle shop at the corner of 18th and South Streets. When Walgreen's chose to purchase this location in 1997, Wintek moved to its present location downtown at the corner of Sixth and Brown Streets.
In 1982, after suffering serious injuries in the crash of a small plane he was piloting, Paul Wintz decided to sell his ownership of Wintek to employees Jim Wilson and Steve Belter. Mr. Belter now serves as Wintek's president, while Mr. Wilson serves as vice-president of engineering.
In 1983, Wintek introduced smARTWORK®, the world's first IBM-PC based computer-aided-design program for designing electronic printed-circuit boards. This was one of Wintek's most successful products and was sold in over 60 countries around the world. This led to Wintek's HiWIRE® software, a combined electronic schematic and multi-layer circuit-board CAD program.
In 1994, the scope of Wintek's business began to change as they entered the Internet era. Catering to the commercial user, Wintek's first Internet customer was Wolfelt Electronics. Over the next decade, Wintek's Internet business has expanded to include many local businesses and professional services firms, government agencies and education markets, and most of the high-tech businesses in the Purdue Research Park .
At present, Wintek's business is split between Internet services and the configuration of computer network equipment from Cisco Systems. Wintek installs and maintains Cisco firewalls, routers, switches, telephone systems and wireless access points.
One of the keys to Wintek's success has been its consistency of service over its three decades in the industry. A major reason for this is likely the long tenure of key staffers. While Mr. Belter has been with the company since 1982, Wintek's operations manager, Jerilyn Rausch has this topped, having served with Wintek since 1977.