IT Management for Small Business Made Easy

We live in an information age and information overload is real! A new business starting up is even more vulnerable to the stress of managing all the information coming at you and knowing what to pay attention to. How do you keep it straight? No one has time to lose so manage your information as effectively and efficiently as possible. Information is your most important asset. This workshop helps you learn important skills to manage it.

You may know the panic when even one important document goes missing or the wrong version of a contract is sent to a client. Your di��gital information is sitting on all your computers, file servers, tablets, mobile devices and Cloud storage service. It is imperative to have guidelines or best practices for naming and saving your documents so you can find them again.

There are a myriad of choices of what to choose for your business infrastructure required to support information management (hardware, software and services). Understand what you need before selecting the tools you need to do it. Make an educated decision of whether your IT should be managed in-house or by a managed service provider.

This workshop will present an overview of these important topics relating to information management for new or existing small businesses. The workshop consists of two segments:

Digital Organizing for document management – Learn to organize your “unstructured content” or the electronic files that lie outside of a database such as your computer files, share drives, desk tops, emails and cloud based storage services. Do you know where your data is? Get all your “docs” in a row with digital organizing.
Technology for information management – Understand the options for technical devices and services to support your information management requirements. Guidelines for selecting hardware, software and services for deciding if they should be totally owned and managed in house, a managed service provider (MSP) or a combination of the two.

John Wham is a graduate electrical engineer with experience in the design and development of both military and commercial systems. After approximately 25 years’ experience in military system development – beginning as an entry-level engineer and culminating as the Chief Engineer of a major division of a large electronics company.

Subsequently, he was the co-founder and President of a software development company, in charge of product design and development. The company’s software products included a distributed project management system, regulation-compliant security system, and a sales force automation system, which became the flagship product of the company.

Debi Gianni is CEO of Digital-Organizing.com. Being productive and organized may be Debi’s natural abilities, but she also has the experience and the expertise to teach how you can keep track of your digital documents and boost productivity. With over a decade of organizing, sales and event planning, Debi understands business and how to save time and protect your best asset – your information. She has been selected for the 2017 National Organization of Professional Organizers conference to speak on “Computer Clutter to Clarity!”

Sean Ferrel graduated from The University of San Diego in 2000 with degrees in both Business and Information Services. In 2003, Sean founded Managed Solution with the intention of providing consulting assistance on an hourly basis. The scope of the company’s offerings have grown to include managed services and systems integration, unified communications, cloud computing, and the mobile workspace. Currently, Managed Solution is a multimillion dollar corporation with over 60 employees based in and around the southern California region and has been named to the San Diego Business Journal’s list of Fastest Growing Privately held companies for 3 straight years and was also named to the 2010 CRN Fast Growth list

Sean is also currently involved in Vistage International, American Institute of Technology Professionals, Just In Time Foster Youth, USD Alumni Board, and several others. Mr. Ferrel has been a featured speaker in many live seminars, teleconferences and radio engagements regarding technology within the Southern California business community.