About EffingTech
Built from experience. Still curious enough to keep building.
EffingTech is an independent web, software, and technology studio in Effingham, Illinois, built on the belief that good technology should make something clearer, easier, or better.
Mel Hirtzel
Founder · Effingham native
Decades in IT, from the help desk to Director of IT. You’ll work with Mel directly, start to finish.
Know the people you serve. Do good work. Stand behind it.
Mel Hirtzel, founder
Mel Hirtzel · Founder
Technology experience, redirected toward the work we enjoy most.
EffingTech grew out of decades of real-world technology work, from help desks and infrastructure to enterprise IT leadership, project management, websites, and software development.
After years of managing technology for organizations large and small, Mel created EffingTech to focus on the best parts: solving problems, building useful things, and helping businesses make better technology decisions.
Small and independent is intentional. It keeps the work personal, the decisions practical, and the people you talk to connected to the work being done.
Deep roots in Effingham
A modern business with a very local backstory.
Both sides of Mel’s family came from early farming and dairy families in Effingham County, and his parents spent 30 years operating Hirtzel Coin Laundry in Effingham.
Growing up around family farms and a small local business shaped how we think about work: know the people you serve, do good work, and stand behind it. EffingTech looks very different from the businesses that came before it, but those values haven’t changed.
Background
From hands-on support to enterprise leadership.
The common thread has always been turning technology into something the business can actually use.
IT leadership
Teams, budgets, vendors, operations, service management, and business alignment.
Projects & modernization
Infrastructure, migrations, data centers, systems, process improvement, and change.
Broad environments
Healthcare, government, manufacturing, retail, enterprise, MSP, and small business.
Still hands-on
Software, websites, troubleshooting, design, and the details that make an idea usable.
Let’s talk about what you need.
A website that needs to work harder, a Google listing that needs cleanup, or a technology decision that needs a second set of eyes: that’s a good place to start.