The Team
Tim Blakley
Founding Partner
Tim helps Kansas City companies keep technology simple, secure and cost-aligned. He holds B.S. degrees in business administration and accounting and an M.S. in accounting & information systems from the University of Kansas. Early in his career, he earned a Certified Novell Engineer credential and consulted across the KC metro on network design, OS deployments and relocations for organizations including Hoechst Marion Roussel, AlliedSignal and GEHA.
FOCUS AREAS
- outsourced IT SUPPORT
- MICROSOFT 365 & cloud governance
- BACKUP / CONTINUITY
- ENDPOINT PROTECTION (EDR)
- right-sizing tools & spend
Chris Brandow
Founding Partner
Chris has worked in IT since the late 1980s and has been a network administrator and consultant for Kansas City organizations since the 1990s. Before co-founding Invision in 2001, he led network operations at Datastorm Technologies and consulted with CIBER, supporting enterprise environments at Hoechst Marion Roussel and others across the metro.
FOCUS AREAS
- network architecture & performance
- Microsoft 365 administration
- secure remote access
- backup/DR & solving complex issues in plain English
Keith Powell
Founding Partner
Keith brings 30 years of hands-on experience as a network administrator, consultant and engineer for regional companies. He has taught computer classes at Johnson County Community College and has served as an expert computer forensics witness for the FBI.
FOCUS AREAS
- security best practice & incident handling
- endpoint protection
- data recovery & practical user/device management at scale
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