Joe Kemp, Msit, Cissp Email & Phone Number

Huntington Beach, California, Us

CAL IT Group offers a suite of comprehensive services that provides day-to-day expertise, support, and strategic management of core IT infrastructure which drives your business.Cloud Computing:Our IT experts can help you understand the business benefits, key considerations, strategic upsides of cloud computing. We will help you develop the right strategy for your business requirements, whether it is collocation, IAAS, private cloud, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 or a hybrid approach.Managed Services:While you focus on growing your business, CAL IT's expert team of IT professionals will take full accountability of your entire IT ecosystem and help drive your business to the top of your industry. Our experienced team will address your organization’s IT needs to ensure your systems and programs are performing efficiently, smoothly, and keeping ahead of technology trends.

Vernon Hills, Il, Us

Vernon Hills, Il, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Principal Engineer on major projects including: datacenter relocations, XenDesktop/XenApp deployments, virtual infrastructure deployments, enterprise e-mail/file/print migrations from Novell to Microsoft and enterprise e-mail migrations from Lotus Notes to Exchange utilizing Quest/Dell software tools.• Provide engineering support to the sales and managed services teams to architect solutions and develop proposals for customers.• Provide 24/7 support for critical issues as an escalation path to our internal Help Desk and Jr. Engineers.• Attend ongoing training and acquiring partner certifications.

• Responsible for maintaining a network of 650+ PC workstations, 25 Apple Macintosh computers, 20+ servers, 800+ students, and 110+ staff/faculty members• Responsible for the discovery, planning, budgeting, and deployment of all technology throughout my tenure• Responsible for supervising two Helpdesk Technicians• Brought the standard desktop replacement cycle down to every 3-4 years from 5-6 years• Researched and implemented a new financial accounting system, coordinated and provided training to all users, and worked with the accounting office and CFO to make critical business decisions in the best interest of St. Anne School. This project eventually led to the migration to a full ERP system encompassing all aspects of accounting (General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Student Billing, Fixed Assets), fundraising, and student records management for which I was responsible for all aspects of implementation.• Worked closely with the finance department and Comerica and Wells Fargo banks to establish ACH payment system for student billing and merchant accounts for credit card processing• Migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 with zero impact to end-users• Replaced 100+ PC fat clients with WYSE thin client terminals utilizing Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp all hypervised on XenServer• Introduced 1:1 netbook program in grades 6-8 (250 students)• Responsible for managing the deployment of the $300K+ “GET SMART” classroom technology fundraiser in 2009 which introduced interactive whiteboards, new LCD projectors, Extron A/V switching systems, speech reinforcement, and i>clicker student response systems to all K-8 classrooms• Replaced Inter-Tel Axxess TDM phone system with AVAYA IP Phone system utilizing Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging

• Provided System Administration and Helpdesk tasks to support the entire corporate office, consisting of over 80 Windows (NT 4.0/2000/2003) servers and 135 Windows desktop systems (2000/XP)• Responsible for maintaining backups, anti-virus, and security updates for the corporate network• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining 24/7 availability for production systems• Provided on-call 24/7 support for mission-critical systems• Maintained corporate e-mail system (Microsoft Exchange 2003) and BlackBerry Enterprise Server• Administered corporate Avaya phone switch and Audix voicemail system• Responsible for setting up all new employees with necessary equipment to do their jobs effectively• Troubleshot and resolved all issues in a prompt and timely manner• Created, updated, and maintained infrastructure diagrams/datacenter rack layouts and documentation

Master’S Degree, Information Technology

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration, Information Systems & Decision Sciences