David Rounds: Fortune 500 IT for the Local Business Economy
David Rounds founded what would become NetEffect in 2001, originally under the name uptimeLV, with a straightforward premise: Las Vegas small and mid-sized businesses deserve the same caliber of IT infrastructure that Fortune 500 companies take for granted. At the time, most local businesses relied on break-fix technicians or a single in-house IT person who juggled networking, security, and help desk duties. Rounds built a managed services model that replaces that patchwork with proactive monitoring, enterprise-grade cybersecurity, cloud management, and strategic IT planning — delivered by a local team that understands the operational realities of running a business in the Las Vegas Valley. The model worked. NetEffect has since been recognized as a Microsoft West Region Influencer Partner of the Year, and Rounds himself received the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year award.
The company operates from 187 East Warm Springs Road, Suite C, in the southeast valley — a central location that provides quick response times across the metro area. NetEffect’s client base spans healthcare practices, law firms, accounting offices, construction companies, and other professional services businesses that handle sensitive data and cannot afford downtime. The firm provides managed IT services, cybersecurity, cloud solutions, backup and disaster recovery, VoIP phone systems, and IT consulting. Rounds has built a team that functions as a full outsourced IT department for its clients, handling everything from day-to-day help desk tickets to long-range technology planning and compliance support.
NetEffect in the Las Vegas Valley
Las Vegas is a mid-market metro with a business community that skews heavily toward small and mid-sized owner-operated companies — contractors, medical groups, professional services firms, and hospitality-adjacent businesses that need reliable technology but lack the scale to justify a full internal IT department. That gap is exactly where NetEffect operates. By pairing enterprise-class tooling with the responsiveness of a local provider, Rounds has built a firm that gives valley businesses access to the kind of IT support that used to be reserved for companies with hundreds of employees and dedicated technology budgets.
- Owner
- David Rounds
- Founded
- 2001
- Address
- 187 E Warm Springs Rd, Ste C, Las Vegas, NV 89119
- Phone
- (702) 318-7700
- Website
- neteffect.com