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BREAKING PAR IN BUSINESS: Lisa Bianchini with Lexis Printing & Fulfillment and Harold Kolbe with BluIP

April 15, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

BREAKING PAR IN BUSINESS: Lisa Bianchini with Lexis Printing & Fulfillment and Harold Kolbe with BluIP

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Lisa Bianchini, Harold Kolbe, Rich Bartolotta

Lisa Bianchini/Lexis Printing & Fulfillment

Lexis Printing is a customer service focused commercial printing, fulfillment and direct mail marketing company. They strive to be a trusted extension of your marketing department by providing superior products at competitive prices. They keep your valuable time and bottom line in focus with everything they do.

Harold Kolbe/BluIP

BluIP delivers mission critical solutions, such as Hosted PBX, Unified Communications, Presence Management, and tailored Call Center solutions to SMB and Large Enterprises nationwide. Their customized solutions have served Enterprises across multiple vertical markets with multiple sites and complex application and infrastructure integrations, while satisfying the most stringent industry compliance and security requirements. BluIP, along with its partner ecosystem, focuses on providing customers with exceptional support, high level of innovation. Their solutions are fully integrated, flexible and scalable, and require no capital investment or ongoing maintenance. Visit them at www.bluip.com.

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Jamie Dukes of Drip Fusion, Phil Van Gelder of Atlanta Office Technologies and Littie Brown of SpeedPro Imaging

December 17, 2015 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Jamie Dukes of Drip Fusion, Phil Van Gelder of Atlanta Office Technologies and Littie Brown of SpeedPro Imaging

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Mike Sammond, Phil Van Gelder, Littie Brown, Jamie Dukes, Steven Julian

Jamie Dukes/Drip Fusion Institute

The Drip Fusion Institute (DFI) Concussion & CTE Protocol is the first “comprehensive” pharmacological treatment for Concussions and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. For maximum absorption, DFI utilizes IV infusions as the primary vehicle to disburse medicines to the brain.

Phil Van Gelder/Atlanta Office Technologies

Atlanta Office Technologies (AOT) is an office equipment dealer and full technology solutions partner. They don’t consider trying to be everything to everyone. They are experts in print and copy management, but every once in a while, they find ways to help clients improve their workflow and overall infrastructure. They accomplish this through alternative technologies such as software, automation and professional managed services.

AOT won’t tell a client they can do it all, but you can guarantee that whatever they do commit to, they will honor that 100% of the way through the relationship.

Littie Brown/SpeedPro Imaging

SpeedPro Imaging specializes in producing high quality graphic images for their customers that convey a message, attract attention and reinforce their brand. Their products ranges from a small yard sign to attract attention to a vehicle wrap reinforcing their brand. Dressing up the store front or participating in a trade show, they can provide the right look for their customers. If you can imagine it, they can print it.

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Talking IT Strategy with Atlanta’s CIO Samir Saini

May 12, 2015 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Talking IT Strategy with Atlanta's CIO Samir Saini

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IT Strategy in Atlanta

This week I had the special treat of sitting down with a long-time acquaintance of mine, Samir Saini, Atlanta’s recently-appointed CIO (2014). He shared the story of his professional journey, beginning as an IT program manager with General Electric and his experience of successful completion of their 2 yr leadership training program.

He spent 10 years with this well-respected organization before accepting the opportunity to step into the role of VP, Corporate Strategy in IT for the MGM International Resorts in Las Vegas. They were in the middle of tackling the IT challenges that come with acquiring several established companies into an existing enterprise, in this case, several well-known hotels.

He was able to successfully lead them through the process of moving the hotels onto a common platform, allowing the company to begin to leverage their company’s size through its expanded buying power and maximize efficiencies in numerous other areas.

Samir returned to Atlanta several years ago, this time bringing his leadership and IT expertise to bear in the public sector, taking a role with Atlanta’s Housing Authority. Four years later he was appointed to be the new CIO for the City of Atlanta by Mayor Kasim Reed.

We talked about the challenges a municipality the size of Atlanta faces, balancing budgetary constraints against a myriad of government agencies, the world’s busiest airport, large population and infrastructure necessary to support them, along with a fast-growing business sector.

Samir discussed several of the tech solutions he and his team are working on and several that are already implemented to the benefit of Atlanta residents. Until we spoke I wasn’t aware that the city provides free Wi-Fi access in Piedmont Park, Grant Park, and numerous other hotspots (with more coming).

He shared the city’s plans to update the fiber optic network to allow for numerous tech upgrades such as synchronized traffic lights to alleviate gridlock, applications that allow drivers to easily locate available parking, and more. I also had the chance to ask him about the priorities he has laid out for the city going forward to address the enormous tech needs of our city to prepare us for the years to come that will make the city a better place to live as a resident and a solid choice for businesses looking for a place to plant their flag.

Special Guest:

Samir Saini, CIO, Commissioner, City of Atlanta

BS, Civil Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Previous Director, ERP, General Electric Energy Services
Former VP, Corporate Services, MGM International Resorts
Past SVP/CIO, Atlanta Housing Authority

Outsourced IT Solutions

April 14, 2015 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Outsourced IT Solutions

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Outsourced IT Solutions

This week I sat down with two experts from Zydexo to talk about the variety of supplemental and outsourced IT solutions they provide. Going in I knew the company placed a focus on providing supplemental and permanent placement of the gamut of IT professionals. What I didn’t know before talking with Sugra Naqvi, Business Developement Manager, and Jerry Lawrence, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, was the breadth and scope of the IT solutions they provide. These include contract staffing of vital IT talent experts for key time-limited projects, but also software development, educational offerings, and IT consulting services.

Both of these folks have been with the company for over 11 years, a testament to the professional culture within the company. And as you listen to this fun interview you can clearly appreciate their respective passion for their work and the brand they represent, as well as the pride they take in delivering what they know is a high level of professional service and customer experience.

Let’s face it–supplemental staffing can be a rather vanilla subject on some levels. It can be as bland as, “I need an X Technician.” “I find good ones.” But when that sort of engagement is coupled with a measure of personal buy-in to the importance of what the “X Technician” will be doing and its financial impact on a client’s business and a high level of customer service, those can be long-term relationships. And those are engagements companies readily feel as though revenue dollars invested to secure the X Technician was absolutely worth it.

Special Guests:

Sugra Naqvi, Business Development Manager, Zydexo

BS, Sociology, Georgia State University
BS Nutrition Sciences, Kaplan University
Active Wellness/Lifestyle Coach
Fluent, Urdu/Hindi

Jerry Lawrence, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, Zydexo

Bachelor, Business Administration, Atlanta University
Former Licensed Commodity Broker, (Series 3 Certification), Risk Capital Trading
Previous Director of Admissions, Mithani Education Group, University of Atlanta