About us

Our Story

In 1986 Robert L. Nelson founded the information systems consulting firm of R.L. Nelson and Associates, Inc. (RLN) to provide systems consulting services to area businesses. The Company maintains its corporate office in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Since the firm’s inception, RLN grew steadily by delivering quality services to a broad client base throughout the Eastern United States. Among its valued clients are many privately and publicly held businesses including multi-national Fortune 500 companies.

In June of 2007 RLN and Vertilocity Inc., a Pittsburgh based Information Technology Services firm joined forces to create Vertilocity-an R.L. Nelson and Associates Company. This combined the traditional application service offerings of RLN with the ability to source, implement and support the infrastructure necessary to run those and other applications throughout the client organizations.

In 2012 we opened a new office outside of Denver Colorado.  I guess you could say that if the town has mountains, we have an office!  

In 2021 we joined HBK and became Vertilocity.

Our Mission

Vertilocity is a team of dedicated IT professionals focused on contributing to the success of our clients by “Increasing profitability through the integration of people, processes and technology.”

During our 30 years we have gained unique insights into each of these elements and can say that each of these elements must be aligned towards our client’s goals to help the achieve them.

It’s also not a coincidence the “people’ come first in this equation. To guide our offerings and fulfill our mission we stay focused on our Core Values:

• To deal honestly and with integrity in all aspects of our lives.
• Commitment to life-long learning and improvement of self, clients, and society.
• Dedication to treat people with the highest level of respect.
• Realize an adequate (fair and reasonable) rate of return on our investment.