SAN DIEGO, CA - Managed Solution has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2020 honor by The San Diego Union-Tribune. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage, LLC. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 drivers of engaged cultures that are critical to the success of any organization: including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few.

“In times of great change, it is more important than ever to maintain a connection among employees,” said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. “When you give your employees a voice, you come together to navigate challenges and shape your path forward based on real-time insights into what works best for your organization. The Top Workplaces program can be that positive outcome your company can rally around in the coming months to celebrate leadership and the importance of maintaining an employee-focused culture, even during challenging times.”

Managed Solution CEO Sean Ferrel runs a technology company but puts a strong emphasis on the people that drive and empower that technology. Culture has always been of the utmost importance to him and the rest of the senior leadership team, especially during the rollercoaster that 2020 has been.

Sean states, "the award means a lot to all of us. We always put our people first to make sure they have the tools they need to succeed, to try new things, and ultimately wake up and be happy to come to work. I've always been a believer in servant leadership, and our leadership team will continue to lead that way, serving our people and customers. We succeed together, celebrate the wins together - both big and small, including this one of course, and work together through the tough times. I always say it’s about having one another’s back, providing a feeling of safety and most of all allowing the culture to something we all create. It’s never perfect, we all make mistakes along the journey, but that’s what makes us great."

About Managed Solution
Managed Solution was founded in 2002 and was quickly recognized as one of San Diego’s 40 fastest growing companies and the 27th fastest growing IT company in Southern California. With corporate headquarters in San Diego, Managed Solution is an IT Services and Consulting firm that focuses on creating great user experiences. Our mission is to empower users, wherever they are, to leverage great technology that makes them more productive and secure. As a result, we enable businesses and their employees to focus on what they do best and get ahead of their competition. Managed Solution specializes in consulting, IT help desk support, Office 365, cloud (public, private, hybrid), business intelligence and analytics, IT automation, identity management, and security and compliance.

About Energage

Energage offers a fully unified SaaS platform, plus support and professional services, to help organizations recruit and retain the right talent. As a B-Corporation founding member, Energage has committed itself to the purpose of making the world a better place to work together. Based on 14 years of culture research, the engine behind 51 Top Workplaces programs across the country, and data gathered from over 20 million employees at 60,000 organizations, Energage has isolated the 15 drivers of engaged cultures that are critical to the success of any business, and developed the tools and expertise to help organizations measure, shape and showcase their unique culture to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. For more information, please visit energage.com. Follow us on Twitter @teamenergage and Facebook and LinkedIn @energage.

SAN DIEGO, CA – Connected Women of Influence's mission is "to build a strong, professional community that fosters growth, support and collaboration through the development of high-performing professional relationships, alliances, and collaborative partnerships among women leading people, projects, teams and companies."  Each year, the group hosts a "Women of Influence" Award Ceremony where they recognize inspirational women and allies of women.

Managed Solution was a finalist for the Champion of Women, Jennell Mott, COO was a nominee for the Gamechanger Award, and Tina Rountree, Director of Sales brought home the Women's Advocate of the Year Award. The Women's Advocate of the Year Award "recognizes a woman who has shown by deed, actions and accomplishment the advocacy of other businesswomen, or a woman with a track record of success and accomplishments by mentoring other women in their profession, industry or enterprise." Tina, who works in a male-dominated industry, works alongside a leadership team that is comprised of 83% women while also leading a sales team that is entirely made up of women.

Tina was thrilled to win and shares the award with all women, “I appreciate all that Patti and Michelle do at Connected Women of Influence. Thank you to the judges and cheers to the other amazing finalists and all the amazing women who are apart of this. I want to thank my team. I have the pleasure of working with amazing women and it's a joy and honor to lead them and be a mentor for them, so this means a lot to me."

Other award categories included: Catalyst for Change, Woman to Watch, Woman Breaking Barriers, President's Award, Author of Influence, Emerging Woman Owned Business, Lifetime Legacy, Veteran of Influence and Connect Woman of Influence. Congratulations to all the nominees, finalists and award winners. The work you do for yourselves and for women is inspiring to us all.

Hear what Tina has to say about what being a woman of influence means to her:

About Managed Solution
Managed Solution was founded in 2002 and was quickly recognized as one of San Diego’s 40 fastest growing companies and the 27th fastest growing IT company in Southern California. With corporate headquarters in San Diego, Managed Solution is an IT Services and Consulting firm that focuses on creating great user experiences. Our mission is to empower users, wherever they are, to leverage great technology that makes them more productive and secure. As a result, we enable businesses and their employees to focus on what they do best and get ahead of their competition.
Managed Solution specializes in consulting, IT help desk support, Office 365, cloud (public, private, hybrid), business intelligence and analytics, IT automation, identity management, and security and compliance.

About Connect Women of Influence

Connected Women of Influence (CWI) is the leading, invitation-only association where b2b women owners, executives and professionals connect, collaborate and cultivate a vast network of high-level affiliations, resources and professional relationships.

SANTA ANA, CA – Philanthropy has been integral to Managed Solution’s culture since the company’s infancy, and, as new employees join the team, they are encouraged to give back to the community both as part of team activities, as well as on their own personal terms. The leadership team is always looking to employees for new ways to get involved in our communities - and welcomes the chance to celebrate employees who go above and beyond in the service of others.

Feli Michaca, a Senior Field Engineer,  is an altruistic role model for the team and has been spending his Wednesday evenings with La Konsentida 97.3, a local radio station in Santa Ana, California, a highly populated Latino community. What started out as a guest appearance has grown into a weekly technology show where Feli joins listeners to discuss a variety of technology trends, and specifically how they are impacting the Latino community.

Feli states, “I didn’t come from a technology background. But when I got hurt and could no longer perform at my job that required manual labor, I went to school and got into technology. Someone (a CIO) reached out and gave me the opportunity to intern at their company to learn everything I know now. Without that chance, who knows where I’d be now. And now it’s my turn to try and give back to my community. I love the show. I love the people and the listeners and believe we’re providing some valuable resources and information that can help someone else.”

Topics on the show range from recent trends, new innovations and more. For example, a hot topic of 2020 has been around COVID-19 tracing technology, which is especially critical in Santa Ana as we have seen minorities hit harder by the pandemic. Recently, Feli and his co-host discussed how Artificial Intelligence (AI) may impact jobs, specifically at drive-thrus. McDonald’s is planning to implement AI and effectively eliminate ~5 million jobs. Luckily, Feli also shares some positive news. Microsoft joined that show to discuss the launch of an initiative to help 25 million people acquire digital skills needed in today’s economy – for free.

During the show with Microsoft, Feli and Managed Solution were awarded a Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Contribution to the Community, by the Santa Ana Mayor Vincent Sarmiento; an award all were honored to receive.

Jennell Mott, COO, is thrilled at Feli’s participation to give back as she is heavily involved in giving back herself, with a passion towards serving local foster youth. She states, “Feli loves to bring positivity to the world, and that’s especially needed now. Day in and day out he goes above and beyond for our customers and spends his free time giving back and sharing his technical knowledge to his local community. We’re grateful that he’s part of this team and are so proud of his recent recognition from the Santa Ana Mayor.”

And Feli is grateful to have the Managed Solution support. “Having the support from the team makes this even more rewarding. I wear my Managed Solution shirt proudly and absolutely love what I do and my team.”

Tune in to listen to Tech 30 every Wednesday 6-6:30PM PST on La Konsentida 97.3 in Santa Ana. Available locally and on Facebook Live and YouTube.

(photo taken at last year's event)

San Diego, CA, July 23, 2020 - For 12 years, Managed Solution has supported the Just in Time College Bound program by preparing and donating ready-to-go laptops for young adults transitioning into college. In addition to supplying the laptops, the Managed Solution team configured the laptops will all the tools and apps these college-bound students will need, plus lifetime computer maintenance and repair.

Managed Solution provides laptops to these young adults which set them up for success in their college years as we have seen how critical it is to have access to technological resources today, especially when it comes to education.

Jennell Mott, Chief Operations Officer, at Managed Solution, commented, "I'm so honored that we are able to continue to support these kids, especially this year. We're seeing how having access to technology is more important than ever before, and it feels great to have the opportunity to support these young adults as they take their next big step in life towards college."

Sean Ferrel, Chairman, and CEO of Managed Solution added, "Our goal and what we've been really focused on this year is giving back to our community. How can we connect with and support the great people of San Diego, especially with everything going on in the world today. It feels really good that we can be there for these kids to help them in their next adventure."

Although we couldn't physically participate this year, the students were still super excited about the drive-thru event. Check it out here:

About Just in Time for Foster Youth

Just In Time for Foster Youth is a local non-profit that engages a caring community to help transitioning foster youth achieve self-sufficiency and well-being. JIT is the only volunteer driven San Diego organization that functions as an extended family for transitioning foster youth by providing much needed gap services to support them on their path to self-sufficiency.

For more information, click here for the Just in Time Foster Youth website.

May 20, 2020 -- Techreviewer.co announced a review list recognizing the Top IT Companies. Managed Solution is an IT services and consulting firm based in San Diego, CA, and works with all types of businesses, from small businesses to enterprise.

We are proud that our company has been recognized by Techreviewer.co as one of the leading IT companies in 2020 — it is an honor that fuels our fire and drives us to be more creative and innovative in all our projects. Continuous improvement and customer success is the mechanism that drives Managed Solution’s service delivery.

To make an assessment, the Tech Reviewer collected information about our services and client reviews. Their research placed us in the list of top IT service providers out of over 700 competitors.

The ranking of these firms was performance-based and intended to showcase the best IT companies that proved their value in the market by delivering key aspects of a digital service, ultimately transforming their client’s infrastructure and modernizing their workplace.

At Managed Solution, we integrate creativity with superior technical skills by establishing long-term alliances and consulting with our clients. Without the help of our customers, we would not have received such a high rating from TechReviewer. We want to thank them as we wouldn't be here without them.

CEO Sean Ferrel states, "Every single person in the organization plays such an important role to deliver the best technology solutions to our customers and for that, I'm grateful to have all of them on my team and am honored to receive this recognition."

About TechReviewer.co

TechReviewer is a trusted analytical hub that carries out studies and compiles the lists of top development, design and marketing companies. Specializing in B2B tech companies, Techreviewer's mission is to help businesses make informed decisions and find optimal vendors that meet the high requirements for providing quality services.

About Managed Solution

Managed Solution provides Integrated IT solutions by creating an IT journey that’s tailored to your business needs. We provide a full assessment of your current IT environment and deliver the innovative solutions needed to solve your complex business challenges at every stage of the business lifecycle.

San Diego – CA – May 6, 2020: Managed Solution kicked off 2020 with a successful partnership with Telarus’ network of over 4,000 technology brokers who have been offering their clients high-class support for cloud, professional and managed services with flexibility through Microsoft pay-as-you-go licensing and cloud services (Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure).  As a top Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider and relationship-driven organization, Managed Solution co-sells with partners to help them take advantage of the lowest rates packaged with high-class support; providing flexibility so partners can leverage maximum discounts available in the industry for cloud licensing including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Office 365.

“We're very excited about our partnership with Telarus and have been seeing success working collaboratively with agents and closely with the Telarus team over the past several months,” said Danielle Hamra, Managed Solution channel partner manager. “We couldn't do what we do without our partners who we've been working with to adopt their strategies, creating go-to-market campaigns, and seeing success co-selling together.  We look forward to long-term success with the Telarus community.”

Telarus is one of the most recent and largest, most experienced master agents to join Managed Solution’s Partner Program, which continues to grow and build momentum.

The Telarus team is equally excited to join forces. “Managed Solution is a leading IT services provider, especially when it comes to Microsoft solutions. They’ve been instrumental in delivering services to our new remote organizations to make sure they can stay productive and secure while working from home,” said Patrick Oborn, Telarus co-founder, and chief product officer. “We look forward to growing our relationship and continuing to work together to deliver best-in-class IT support.”

Sean Ferrel, Managed Solution CEO adds, “During our current pandemic we’ve seen a large influx of request for helpdesk services, outsourced IT and security solutions and what we’ve been trying to do is “support not sell” with offerings and webinars on how to best leverage technology platforms, save money and look at the next evolution of customers technology. Telarus has been a great partner in introducing us to many organizations new to remote work, and we work together to deliver the right solutions to support those clients.”

For more information about how to add Managed Solution to your IT service provider portfolio, please reach out to Telarus by visiting their web site, www.telarus.com, or by calling the new partner hotline at 877-346-3232.

About Managed Solution

Managed Solution is an award-winning direct Tier1 Microsoft Cloud Provider and Gold Partner specializing in cloud services, managed IT help desk services, and professional services. Managed Solution supports companies with IT discovery, architecture design, best practices, implementation, and support, as well as training. For more information, visit managedsolution.com or call us at 858-429-3067.

About Telarus

Built for You, Telarus is the largest privately-held technology services distributor (master agent) in the United States. Our dynamic agent-partner community sources data, voice, cloud, and managed services through our robust portfolio of 250 leading service providers. We are best known for our home-grown software pricing tools and mobile apps that are unique in the industry. To help our partners grow their businesses even more, we’ve assembled the best support organization in the business, which includes SD-WAN, Cloud, mobility, contact center, and ILEC specialty practices whose primary goal is to help our partners identify and design the right technology solutions for their customers. To learn more about the Telarus opportunity, please visit www.telarus.com, or follow us on Twitter @Telarus.

San Diego, CA, January 11, 2019 – Managed Solution was named one of the top 100 MSPs on Cloudntango's MSP100 US Awards list. Annually, Cloudtango ranks the top-performing Managed Service Providers across the globe. This year, they highlighted MSPs who excel in several critical areas in including support services, customer service, market growth, certifications, and innovation.  Cloudtango screened thousands of MSPs to come to the conclusion of this list, and we are honored to be a recipient of the award and #3 on this prestigious list.

Sean Ferrel, Founder and CEO of Managed Solution states, "Meeting and learning about our customers and their businesses is my favorite part of what I do. We obviously wouldn't be where we are without them. We adopted a new customer principle in 2019 'your success is our success,' meaning if the customer is successful, then so are we.  Our team has been working hard to make this a reality. Our engineers earned many, many Microsoft certifications this year, and we are constantly innovating and bringing new services to the table to meet our customers' needs and ensure they are secure, productive and ultimately successful. I am so very proud of our teams and we are honored to receive this award."

About Managed Solution

Managed Solution provides Integrated IT solutions by creating an IT journey that’s tailored to your business needs. We provide a full assessment of your current IT environment and deliver the innovative solutions needed to solve your complex business challenges at every stage of the business lifecycle.

About Cloudtango

As the world’s largest MSP directory, Cloudtango provides an easy way to pair businesses with MSPs throughout the industry. Our directory contains thousands of Managed Service Providers searchable by service type, partnership, and location. Our goal is to help you to sort through all available service providers in order to find the right match.

To visit our Cloudtango page click here.  To see the list of all the winners, click here

San Diego, CA, November 19, 2019, – Managed Solution is ending off the year on a very exciting note. As of November 19, 2019, Jennell Mott, formerly VP of Technical Solutions, has been promoted to Chief Operations Officer, and Alecia Aktabowski, formerly the PMO Manager, has been promoted to Director of Business Programs.

Jennell has been with Managed Solution since its inception, starting as the Business Operations Manager and holding many roles over the years, but what never changed was her work ethic and ability to adapt and react to the constant change that is technology. Because of this, she has seen continued success and growth at Managed Solution.

CEO, Sean Ferrel states, “On a personal note, I’m honored to announce this change. Jennell has been by my side since day one at Managed Solution and if it wasn’t for her amazing talent, we wouldn’t be where we’re at today. Jennell will be focused on the ongoing success of our business, our team of engineers, and making sure we’re delivering the exceptional experiences our clients deserve.”

In addition, Alecia Aktabowski who had been over-seeing the Project Management Office now holds the title Director of Business Programs. Due to Alecia’s incredible attention to detail, the ability to take something from ideation, process it and turn it into a reality, this role seems like a naturally perfect fit. Her new role will have a major focus on improving processes throughout the organization.

Sean is also very excited about this change, “Alecia has been so successful in developing the Project Managers and the processes that go into each part of the business so I can’t wait to see her truly shine in this new role.” Sean also adds, “I’m more excited than ever about our future and feel confident these changes will help facilitate even greater things for our team.”

Congratulations to both Jennell and Alecia. Our entire staff is so very proud and excited, and we can’t wait to see what 2020 has in store!

About Managed Solution

Managed Solution provides Integrated IT solutions by creating an IT journey that's tailored to your business needs. We provide a full assessment of your current IT environment and deliver the innovative solutions needed to solve your complex business challenges at every stage of the business lifecycle.