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The ROCC PodFamily, Fiber, and the Future: Mark Friday and the RJ StoryIn this episode of the ROCC Pod, we sit down with Mark Friday of RJ Telecommunications to explore how his company has grown from a family-run operation to a full-scale managed service provider. Mark walks us through the company’s origins, starting in 1996 and his joining in 2004 as a teenager. Back then, RJ focused mainly on physical phone systems, but with the rise of VoIP and the decline of traditional systems like Nortel, the company evolved. By 2013, they were developing their own phone software and expanding into managed internet services, fiber, and network infrastructure.We learn how th...2025-04-1016 min
The ROCC PodRoyal Oak Leprechauns' Mark SackettThe Royal Oak Leprechauns are back! Today, Jon, Lisa, and Andrea are joined by their GM, Mark Sackett, to talk all things Leprechauns baseball.Mark tells us about joining the Great Lakes Collegiate League and moving the team from Adrian, Michigan, to Royal Oak - as wwell as the tremendous support they've received. That's come not just from community leaders and citizens, but one of his former players - current New York Yankee DJ LeMahieu.The field, at the "Lucky Corner" of 13 Mile and Woodward, has undergone some drastic improvements, from the turf field, to th...2022-06-1619 min