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Jim Raykowski

Jim Raykowski

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  • About me

    Co-Owner of Basic Business IT Consulting Services, a Managed IT Services Provider to Small and Medium Business. Working interactively we can grow our business.

  • Education

    • Tidewater Community College

      2000 - 2001
      AAS Information Systems

  • Experience

    • US Navy

      Aug 1982 - Aug 2005
      US Navy

      Started out and Seaman and made it Senior Chief.

    • ManTech

      Jan 2005 - Jan 2007
      Traning Manager

    • Shaw Binary Systems Inc.

      Feb 2007 - Jun 2009
      Technical Account Manager III

    • ResortCom International

      Mar 2007 - Dec 2014
      IT Consultant

    • Madison Avenue Securities

      Mar 2009 - now
      IT Consultant

    • Asset Marketing Systems

      Mar 2009 - now
      IT Consultant

    • Basic BusinessIT Consulting Services

      Jul 2009 - now
      Managing Partner and Co-Owner of Basic Business IT Consulting Services

      Try to always use Listen, Learn, and Educate your clients, your team, and yourself. Doing that consistently; your clients, your team, and you will help ensure that both your businesses will and continue grow and thrive together. You have to like what you do. I like being in the middle of a serious technical conversation about how something should be done. I got away from management for about 14 years and jumped back into the tech world and I think it was good for me. I went from managing 1500 or so, started a business managing 1, me, and now we have clients in 5 states and 3 countries. I can also have a serious discussion about company vision, strategies to get there, developing budgets, and work together to get there. I am not a politician and don’t have visions of grandeur. There will be direct, serious, and sometimes contentious discussions and that’s ok. As long as we all understand and agree at the end, we march forward as one. I believe you have to build an environment that, while there will always be tough times, most of the time the folks we work for like what they do, try to have fun at it, and enjoy interactions the most. I guess you need the details of things, currently managing a team that provides MSP Services, we run from the keyboard to the firewall, everything in between, and beyond. Basic networks, mesh networks, multiple servers, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Scale Computing Clusters most of which I have personally done while bringing in our team and clients do the work so they learn how it works and are able to answer the questions why it isn’t working, and developing the answer themselves. Development, Migration, and management of AWS and Azure Cloud based solutions. It’s the challenge, the opportunity to learn and, interact that keeps me leaning forward Show less

    • Global Building, LLC

      Jan 2010 - now
      IT Consultant

    • MAAC

      Nov 2010 - Dec 2013
      IT Consultant

    • ACS

      Nov 2013 - now
      IT Consultant

      Provide Help Desk, Desktop, Network, and Server Support

    • Vivo Landscape

      Nov 2013 - now
      IT Consultant

      Provide Help Desk, Desktop, Network, and Server Support

    • Harvey USA

      Nov 2013 - now
      IT Consultant

      Provide Help Desk, Desktop, Network, and Server Support

    • Lot Management Inc.

      Nov 2013 - now
      IT Consultant

      Provide Help Desk, Desktop, Network, and Server Support

    • Flexaust

      Jun 2014 - now
      IT Consultant

  • Licenses & Certifications