On July 7th Keystone Technology Consultants hosted their summer barbecue at 787 Wye Road in historic Ghent Ohio.  Over seventy of their clients and friends joined together to celebrate the summer with great conversation, food, and festivities.  "We'd like to thank everyone who came out to have fun with us on Wednesday", said Greg Cordray, Keystone’s President. "We had a great day and we really enjoyed spending some quality time with everyone." 

Keystone was proud to be able to be a sponsor at the Phil Shook Invitational Golf tournament.  Phil passed away a few years ago, but is remembered by his family and friends with this memorial golf event that raises funds to support therapeutic music and arts at Cleveland's Positive Education Program (PEP).  You can read more about Phil and is life here.

We had a great time and shot a 68!

Keystone is proud to announce that Greg Cordray has been added to the CITe Board of Directors at the University of Akron, the College of Business Administration.  "CITe" stands for Center for IT and eBusiness, and Greg will be contributing to the direction and activities of the organziation.  We are proud to be part of such a great group of people, and congratulate Greg in his being recognized! 

Link to CITe

Keystone Technology Consultants is proud to announce we have received a new competency designation from Microsoft, the “Identity and Security Competency”.  This competency was gained by Keystone’s demonstrated expertise in building, designing, deploying, and supporting solutions using the following tools:

• Forefront Security products (including clients, Exchange, SharePoint, and Office Communication Server)
• Forefront Threat Management Gateway
• Active Directory
• Certificate Services
• Windows Rights Management Services  

This will allow us to help support our customers’ business strategy through higher levels of security that works without being intrusive. 

Driving this technical growth are top chief executive officer (CEO) priorities, such as the need to manage risk, protect valuable intellectual property, allow customers to securely access corporate information creating more sticky relationships, and centralize security management thereby reducing costs. The Identity and Security competency assures our customers that we have the expertise to address their needs by growing revenue and creating operational efficiencies that are secure and effective.
 

Keystone is proud to add Paramount Tennis Club to our list of clients.  Paramount Tennis Club is a state of the art USTA facility serving the entire Northeastern Ohio community from its main location in Medina. The professionally staffed, full service tennis center offers unsurpassed quality programming and facilities to members and the general public.

Paramount will be using Keystone's hosted office service, which will allow them maximum flexibility and growth capabilities, for a great price!

We are excited to be working with the great people at Paramount and look forward to participating in their ongoing growth.

Keystone is proud to welcome Richard Bedell to the firm as our Chief Financial Officer (CFO).  Richard is helping us manage our growth profitably with better internal capabilities. 

• Oversee finance and accounting organization including coach and develop staff.
• Prepare monthly or quarterly reporting with analysis of financial statements.
• Manage banking relationships.
• Prepare and present reports to board.
• Maximize working capital by managing trade receivables with metrics to measure collection results on a regular basis.
• Control costs with a review of all variable and fixed costs as well as process redesign.
• Analyze gross profit margins and determine break-even point.
• Prepare annual operating and capital budgets and monitor against results throughout the year.
• Prepare profit and cash projections throughout the year.

Congratulations to Matt Davis for adding the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) to his certifications. We are proud of Matt for his technology interest and capabilities, and we know our clients benefit by his abilities.  Keystone employees hold numerous certifications from multiple partners, which can be seen here.  With the constantly changing technology landscape, we try to stay ahead of the curve and make sense of it all for those who rely upon us.

Way to go Matt - keep it up!