President: Jeremy Treister, Owner / President of CMIT Solutions of downtown Chicago, has over 20 years experience providing IT services to organizations of all sizes. Jeremy directed the systems practice for a midsize construction management company, Rise Group, and led enterprise integration projects for McKesson and NorthShore University HealthSystem. He has helped numerous organizations differentiate themselves through operational efficiency and innovative document management systems. He has MBA from University of Illinois at Chicago and a BA from Indiana University.
Local Team: Tanya Chwojko, Gavin Gould and David Rose are lead Technicians. Their jobs include all aspects of providing technical support to our clients. Most of their time is spent working with our clients around Chicago, building relationships and managing their technology.
Remote Team: Our Chicago team is supported by the entire CMIT system: hundreds of certified engineers at our Network Operations Center (NOC), Help Desk, and technical consultants from franchise partners across the US. We provide a fractional, enterprise level service delivery team.
Associations and Community Involvement: HACIA (Hispanic American Construction Industry Association), Half Acre Cycling Team, Chicago Velo Campus, Northcenter Chamber of Commerce, Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation
Vendor certifications: Microsoft Small Business Specialist, Dell Certified Partner & Cisco Select Certified Partner
To one degree or another, the vast majority of businesses today rely on technology to operate. For those that depend on it, unscheduled downtime of critical network components results in more than inconvenience and frustration. Downtime equals lost profits.
Many business owners don’t fully appreciate the costs associated with technical issues, so let’s see what an hour of server...
“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
Often find yourself wondering where all the time goes? Much in the same way that keeping track of expenses reveals where your money goes, keeping tabs on your time can help you make more efficient use of it by identifying waste and opportunities for increased productivity.
But first, you need to a way to track it....
Your regularly scheduled QuickTip has been pre-empted for this important communique from Revolution Headquarters:
Ladies and gentlemen, for far too long, we’ve suffered the tyranny of oppressive manual backups and slow network connections. We’ve endured the pestilence of spam, viruses, and spyware, endangering our data and our sanity.
We’ve had enough, and WE DEMAND...
As an IT service provider to small and medium-sized businesses, we see a few common problems among new customers. Whether because of oversight, ignorance, neglect, or user error, the following five issues keep many businesses from achieving their full potential and, at worst, jeopardize a company’s very existence.
We had a great response to the recent QuickTip entitled Quickly Prevent Unauthorized Use of Your Computer, where we showed you how to lock your PC using the “Windows Key + L” keyboard command.
Several people asked if there was a similar trick for Apple’s OS X operating system. There...
