My name is Kevin Fream. You may know me as the owner of Matrixforce and as the Virtual CIO. I work exclusively with clients from mid-sized professional service, financial, industry, and public sector organizations.
Clients engage me for my unique 20+ years of national experience in implementing and supporting technology infrastructure and business applications. I offer a frank business approach to lower and justify costs, without motivation of product sales or staff expansion.
My monthly Virtual CIO blog gives clients new insight and practical advice on the latest business and technology challenges. Since 1999, our Managed Services have saved clients collectively an average of $100 Million on technology services and products annually. As a top 100 provider in the world for cloud computing, I’ve helped dozens of organizations and thousands of users get to the cloud for greater productivity and securty – at less cost.
Reach me at (918) 622-1167 Option 3 or e-mail sales@matrixforce.com.
Specialties
Skilled at matching customer need with high value proposition and cost effective technologies. Current specializations include:
● Cloud Computing
● Online Backup
● Managed Services
● Virtualization
● Unified Messaging
Experience
CEO
Matrixforce
May 1997– Present
Matrixforce offers managed services, cloud computing, online backup, virtualization, and unified messaging. As CEO, I have full managment responsibility for the firm including delivering on the vision to provide superior technology support for clients to realize business potential. My staff and I currently:
● Move approximately 1,000 users annually to cloud computing for significant savings
● Save clients an average of 50% versus current support options with managed services
● Protect hundreds of terabytes of corporate data with online backup
● Reduce capital expenditures with 80% less hardware using virtualization
● Improve employee productivity adding 100 hours per year with unified messaging
● Advise over 50 organizations representing $1 Billion in revenue as Virtual CIO
President
CTS
January 1995– May 1997 (2 years 5 months)
CTS provided consulting, design, and development of manufacturing & distribution bar code data collection applications for Fortune 500 customers throughout the United States. The implementations were for handheld and industrial terminals with integration to IBM and HP host line-of-business applications. Since a network and associated applications were generally needed as well, the business model gradually changed to primarily infrastructure deployment and support.
● Changed business focus to Microsoft virtualization and unified messaging
● Refined managed services offerings for greater scale and more customer value
● Developed the Virtual CIO as a cost effective and expert business and technology advisor
General Manager
CTS
May 1993– December 1994 (1 year 8 months)
My responsibility was day-to-day operations, sales, and financial performance of the firm.
● Joined inaugural Microsoft Solution Provider Program
● Implemented standard operating procedures for consistent service quality
● Doubled profits annually while significantly lowering client cost with managed services
Integration Services Manager
CTS
May 1991– May 1993 (2 years 1 month)
I led team of 35 technical personnel in the implementation and support of all major industry industrial terminal and printing applications.
● Implemented first generation unified messaging with Microsoft Exchange
● Deployed early desktop virtualization with Microsoft Terminal Services
● Developed managed services to save clients an average of 50% over traditional support
Project Leader
CTS
May 1989– May 1991 (2 years 1 month)
My role was to add business consulting and software development to existing product offerings. I was fortunate to work with some of the nation’s greatest manufacturing and technology companies.
● Created proprietary methodology, Delta
● Implemented the largest wireless network in the world in Denver in 1991
● Developed application to automatically enter data into host application screens
System Analyst
DuPont
May 1987– May 1989 (2 years 1 month)
Dupont of Tulsa produces plastic pipe primarily for oil and gas distribution. While finishing my degree at Tulsa University, I landed a position to update, maintain, and support an early version Novell network along with certification, payroll, maintenance callout, and testing applications in FoxPro. It was my first exposure to a large corporation with unique lessons for business process and security. After reducing the amount of code and processing time in half for all applications by using normalized tables for business rules, Dupont implemented the updated applications at all the surrounding regional plants.
Education
University of Tulsa
Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems
1985 – 1989
Certification
Dell Certified Storage and Online Backup
Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional
Microsoft Cloud Computing Accelerate
