Alfredo Casta started his business the way many entrepreneurs do: knowing he could do better on his own.

“The entrepreneurial spirit was in me, and I wanted to scratch that itch,” he said.

So after spending 10 years as a computer specialist for the Department of Labor, the Puerto Rican formed Herndon-based Cascades Technologies Inc. in 1998 and started doing information technology consulting for the government.

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