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EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT

Ryan Garvelink

Ryan Garvelink joined i3 Business Solutions in February of this year in our Customer Support Center. Ryan is the kinder, gentler version of “Big Brother” watching over i3 clients’ systems ensuring maximum uptime. It is Ryan you will speak to if you have trouble with email or a printer or your server goes down. Chances are he’ll contact you before you are even aware you have trouble. He can often fix your IT problem remotely. Even George Orwell could not argue with that.

Ryan is a sophomore at Davenport University working toward his Bachelor of Applied Sciences Degree in Network Security. Ryan enjoys golf, water skiing, wake boarding, and vacationing at Lake Michigan in Grand Haven. Please join us in welcoming Ryan to i3.

Tom Sutherland

Tom Sutherland has been with i3 Business Solutions for 11 years now. He started back before the merger between Silver Lake Resources and 21st Century. Tom is one of our very talented network engineers and specializes in Microsoft and Cisco Network Systems. He is currently installing systems at Durolast and Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative.

Tom and his wife Jennifer have been married for 16 years. Jennifer is pursuing a degree in design from Baker College. Together the couple has been restoring their 110 year old home in Grand Haven. Tom and Jennifer have two sons; Jared who is 16 and will be competing in the National Science Olympiad in Washington D.C. this June; and 8 year old Aaron who is a sports nut and plays piano.

Tom is a bass guitar player who enjoys playing blue grass music with friends when he is not carting his boys to their many activities. He attends Ferris State University where he is working to complete his Bachelor of Computer Science Degree. People like Tom Sutherland are what make i3 a great place to work and do business with. Thanks Tom!

Most small businesses can only dream about current, efficient, integrated business systems. The staff at Camp Roger is now living this reality every day. “We are set up for future growth with a uniform starting point. Everything is great, we are not waiting for the next thing to die,” said Matt Zwiep, the defacto Camp Roger IT guy.

Camp Roger was the lucky winner in the 2007 “Extreme Office Technology Makeover” sponsored by i3 Business Solutions and the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce. Entries were judged on current business pains and how new technology would increase productivity.

Camp Roger’s application said in part “As a non-profit organization, we have been forced to walk a fine line. We struggle with finding the balance of buying equipment that will allow us to get by, while at the same time be good stewards of donated funds. This is why we find ourselves using a system that is pieced together, often unreliable, and much slower than what we need.”

Installation was completed and Camp Roger’s new business systems are up and running in time for the 2008 summer camp season. The IT facelift included: an IBM server, four workstations with LCD monitors, two notebook computers, a color printer Microsoft Office 2007 licenses, a firewall, installation services and 3 months of ReliabiliTy. The hardware and software was implemented by i3’s own Doug Worden and Camp Roger couldn’t have had nicer things to say about how helpful Doug was and is!

Read more about Camp Roger

Connect People, Information & Processes With a SharePoint Starter Site
By Jane Cage, HTS COO

Everyone can agree – there is not a business around that wouldn’t benefit from better processes and shared information. SharePoint, a Microsoft product designed for networks running Windows Server, is a web-based application that enables anywhere-access for individuals or groups who are working together on projects. Team members can share files, calendars, contacts and secure information through a browser anywhere they have web access. Read below for answers to some of the basic questions surrounding this great application.

“How could YOU use SharePoint?”

Make Documents Look Great in Word 2007

As you work, you don't need to apply formatting and then do it again until you have what you want — just point to a style in the dialog box to see a preview in your document. Not quite right? Point to a different style and see what it looks like.

Watch the demo to see how easy it is to give a plain document a professional-looking makeover, and then give it a final polish with headers and footers and a cover page.