Danielle Hamra Player of the Month (March 2016)

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Congratulations to Danielle Hamra, Marketing & Engagement Manager, for being selected as Managed Solution’s March 2016 Player of the Month.
This award is given on a monthly basis to a Managed Solution employee who has done an amazing job of exemplifying and living up to the Managed Solution Core Values.
The Managed Solution leadership team selected Danielle Hamra or the “Hammer” as she is affectionately referred to, as Player of the Month because she can always be counted on to keep on top of all details in marketing and more. Danielle is always available to help co-workers with last minute requests and goes above and beyond the job in training the sales team on marketing functionality in CRM to help them achieve their goals.
Danielle began her career at Managed Solution in 2014 as the lone wolf in the Marketing Department, which continues to flourish and expand. Danielle's work ethic is to be commended as she always gets the job done even when the load gets heavier. Danielle never lets Managed Solution down. Danielle reaches across departments to gather information and the entire Managed Solution team is incredibly fond of her, therefore leadership is excited to award her dedication and hard work with this month’s Player of the Month.
This award is given on a monthly basis to a Managed Solution employee who has done an amazing job of exemplifying and living up to the Managed Solution Core Values.

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At Managed Solution, we strive to be the best technology based company by investing in our top assets; our people!

Here at Managed Solution we thrive in an energetic, performance-driven environment where results, teamwork, and quality of customer satisfaction are recognized and rewarded. Our corporate culture is diverse, open and creative. We look for team members with proven experience, a strong sense of passion and dedication to the highest levels of excellence, technology and business ethics.

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Live on the bleeding edge of technology? Managed Solution is Hiring- Sr. Systems Engineer SCCM

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Managed Solution has an all-star team with a kick-butt company culture, and we’re excited about what’s ahead. For over a decade, we’ve worked with companies large and small, supporting any and all of their IT needs. We invest in our clients and our staff to bring out the best in both. We’ve been named to the Business Journal’s 100 fastest growing companies for the past five years and stand in the top 1% of Microsoft Cloud partners worldwide. We value high standards, honesty and integrity, proactivity, adaptability and passion. Managed Solution is poised for unparalleled growth and expansion – this is an opportunity you won’t wanna miss!
Your mission? Leverage your 5+ years of experience and expertise in System Center 2012 R2 to architect and deploy solutions as a systems engineer/project consultant working directly with clients in mid-market and enterprise LAN/WAN environments. Our firm specializes in both managed and professional services across the Microsoft infrastructure stack (Windows, Active Directory, SQL, Exchange, Office 365, System Center, Lync, etc.).  As a senior member of the Systems Integration team, you'll have a highly visible role and contribute directly to the business outcomes of your clients.
Perks & Benefits:
Responsibilities:
This senior engineer will be responsible for day to day implementation, design, and support of System Center infrastructure at various client sites. He or she will design and deploy solutions that are right-fitted to the clients needs. The selected candidate should be able to provide additional support in a variety of areas, such as: administration, disaster recovery, network design, and/or project implementations.
***Consultants provide an outsider's perspective for businesses looking to improve some aspect of their operations.  The ideal candidate will understand how to work with clients and how to give that perspective... and successfully articulate it.
On a day-to-day basis, you can look forward to:
Qualifications:
***Candidate must be able to travel within the San Diego, Orange County, and Los Angeles areas.
What you'll need for success:
Bonus Skills/Knowledge:
Physical Demands:
The essential functions of this job require: the ability to frequently sit and stand for long periods of time; to climb and balance; to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, or bend; to manipulate objects with fine and gross motor skills; to frequently lift and maneuver 10 pound objects and occasionally lift and maneuver 50 pound objects; to communicate in written and spoken English; to hear; to utilize close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Managed Solution is an equal opportunity employer and will consider qualified applicants who can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation.
E-Verify Participation:
Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States. Managed Solution participates in the federal E-Verify program to validate the authenticity of work eligibility documents. As part of this program, Managed Solution will provide the Social Security Administration
(SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. For more information, see https://www.uscis.gov/e-verify.
Think you're a fit? Looking for a challenge? Apply today!
Check out these available positions.

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Welcome to the Invisible Revolution

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Welcome to the Invisible Revolution

As written on blogs.microsoft.com
Think of your favorite pieces of technology. These are the things that you use every day for work and play, and pretty much can’t live without.
Chances are, at least one of them is a gadget – your phone, maybe, or your gaming console.
But if you really think about it, chances also are good that many of your most beloved technologies are no longer made of plastic, metal and glass.
Maybe it’s a streaming video service you use to binge watch “Game of Thrones” on or an app that lets you track your steps and calories so you can fit into those jeans you wore back in high school. Maybe it’s a virtual assistant that helps you remember where your meetings are and when you need to take your medicine, or an e-reader that lets you get lost in your favorite book via your phone, tablet or even car speakers.
Perhaps, quietly and without even realizing it, your most beloved technologies have gone from being things you hold to services you rely on, and that exist everywhere and nowhere. Instead of the gadgets themselves, they are tools that you expect to be able to use on any type of gadget: Your phone, your PC, maybe even your TV.
They are part of what Harry Shum, executive vice president in charge of Microsoft’s Technology and Research division, refers to as an “invisible revolution.”
“We are on the cusp of creating a world in which technology is increasingly pervasive but is also increasingly invisible,” Shum said.

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New Employee Announcement: Liliana Ciurlino, Marketing & Engagement Coordinator

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Liliana Ciurlino joins Managed Solution as a Marketing & Engagement Coordinator. She worked the last several years as a Regional Marketing Manager with H&R Block in the areas of new client growth strategy, execution and partnership development. She has trained hundreds of professionals on how to build their book of business in field marketing. Prior to her work in direct mail and TV advertising within the Financial Industry, she founded a 501 (c) 3 Non-Profit Organization, contACT ARTS, which produces the San Diego International Fringe Festival. In 2015, she created the World’s First Bi-National Fringe Festival (MEX/USA) and Emerging Fringe; a San Diego Regional Performance Competition for grades 6-12 to present their original work.    
Liliana is a native of San Diego and has had the opportunity to live in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sonoma, Miami, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business with a Marketing Concentration and is pursuing her MBA from Missouri State University. Liliana serves on the Latino Committee with the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce, California College Program Advisory Board and volunteers with the Girl Scouts.
Liliana enjoys playing guitar & piano, yoga, running and hiking. In Old San Juan, she studied black and white analog photography and would like to build herself a dark room. Her favorite movie is Rocky and one of her favorite quotes is by Henry David Thoreau, "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see". We’re excited to welcome Liliana to the Managed Solution team!

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New Employee Announcement: Jamie Gasior, Business Development Manager (Arizona)

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NEW EMPLOYEE: JAMIE GASIOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

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Jamie Gasior joined the Managed Solution team as a Business Development Manager (Arizona) on Monday, April 11, 2016. Jamie has over twenty years of sales experience in the technology industry with the past 10 years focused on cloud and/or managed services.
Jamie was born in Michigan and lived in several states throughout his childhood (6 total!) He moved to Tucson, AZ for college in 1992 and has lived there ever since. In 1997 he met his wife Erin, who is also from Michigan, at a laundromat near the University of Arizona campus. They have been married for 16 years and have 4 awesome kids (Emma, Abby, Jack and Luke) and Wrigley, a golden doodle.
Before Jamie decided to grow up and get a real job, he was dedicated to chasing his dream of playing golf professionally until he realized his potential or lack thereof – but he still enjoys playing for fun! Jamie also loves coaching his football team which has his boys Jack and Luke playing on together. He is excited to join the Managed Solution team and we are happy to have him on board!

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Technology is changing how we retire

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Technology is changing how we retire

By Tucker Smith as written on techcrunch.com
From baby boomers to Generation X to millennials, it seems that each generation faces a new set of problems that they believe to be tougher to solve than those faced by the former generation. Baby boomers grew up during the height of the Cold War, Gen Xers took the brunt of the recession and millennials are burdened with more student debt than ever before.
Retirement is a hotbed issue that elicits different reactions depending on the age of the individual in question, but proves to be a problem that affects all three generations. Varying degrees of access, familiarity and trust in technology and differing definitions of a successful retirement are at the root of each demographic’s approach to the subject.
What’s interesting is that some traditional forms of investing, such as real estate and stock trading, are thought of differently by each demographic, while other traditional mediums, such as the 401k, are utilized in relatively the same manner.

401ks by generation

But more on that later. First, let’s break down how each generation handles retirement planning.

Baby Boomers (the Social Security generation)

Born between 1946 and 1964, the baby boom generation was raised in a conflicted and industrialized world that witnessed the Korean War, Vietnam and the creation of the United States as an industrial superpower. They were among the first to be born into an America that had a plan for their retirement: Social Security.
Passed in 1935, the Social Security Act was intended to provide the elderly with the means to exit the workforce at age 65. Baby boomers were raised to have full confidence in the program, which explains why one-third of their population today plans on using Social Security as their primary source of retirement income.
Millennials are the generation that everyone seems to have an opinion about.
In theory, the concept is simple: Those who are able to work will give a portion of their wages to those who are no longer able to work, which by today’s numbers amounts to 2.8 workers for every Social Security beneficiary. The average beneficiary can expect $1,229.85 each month from Social Security, making that the primary source of income for 24.31 million baby boomers in retirement.
This cold, hard fact has caused almost two-thirds of baby boomers to plan on retiring after the age of 65, with more than half of them classifying a reduced work schedule and retirement as the same.
Though they grew up hearing the benefits that came with Social Security, baby boomers are quickly realizing that it is not enough to retire on, and they are scrambling like crazy to make ends meet.

Generation X (the 401k generation)

Born between 1965 and 1978, Gen Xers are products of the early-stage technology boom. Witnessing the rise of the Internet in adulthood, they are familiar with technology but face trust issues with it from time to time. They are also the first generation to question the capabilities of Social Security, and saw their employers adapt the 401k on a wide scale as they began entering the workforce in the mid to late 1980s, making them the “401k generation.”
Gen Xers pioneered the idea of structured, personal retirement planning by integrating the 401k into the core of their retirement plans. Compared to the other two generations, Gen Xers are more likely to opt into a 401k, if offered, and are more likely to use professional financial planners than baby boomers. Around 83 percent of Gen Xers do not believe that Social Security will be there for them at their desired retirement age, which will be after the age of 65 according to 54 percent of them. Their lack of confidence in Social Security has caused most of them to believe they will need to work part-time into “retirement” strictly for financial reasons.
Though they came of age in a digital world, Gen Xers are less likely to trust financial technology, fintech, which is why we see a denser consolidation of retirement funds in their 401k accounts compared to their millennial successors. Gen Xers show an important progression in retirement planning by taking the baby boomer approach a step further with a more hands-on, personal approach.

 

Millennials (the innovation generation)

Born between 1979 and 1996, millennials are the generation that everyone seems to have an opinion about, but there seems to be a general consensus that they are in one way or another disruptive. Essentially born with technology in hand and little, if any, memory of a world without the Internet, millennials stereotypically tend to more quickly accept change and are open to challenging traditional ways of thinking and living. Consequently, this coexistence with technology comes with an inherent need for instant gratification and access to information.
Contrary to what the 401k graphs mentioned above might have alluded to, surveys have shown that millennials are actually more conscious and proactive about retirement than the two previous generations. On average, they began saving for retirement 13 years before the baby boomers and five years before Gen Xers.
However, the results of this trend are not reflected in the most obvious of ways. A little bit of math reveals that millennials actually contribute less to 401ks each year than the baby boomers ($2,357.14) and Gen Xers ($1,372.55) at an average of only $864.86. But that doesn’t mean that they are saving less. In fact, studies have shown quite the opposite.
The story behind millennials’ smaller 401k contributions is actually that they have progressed Gen Xer’s retirement approach a step further by being more open to adapting new tech-savvy platforms and services that enable them to diversify their investment funds. Innovations in fintech and real estate have allowed millennials to capitalize on their adaptive nature and enter positions that were previously unavailable to the twenty-somethings of past generations.

Gen Xers are less likely to trust financial technology

Robo investment services like Wealthfront and Betterment have given them the confidence to begin stock trading earlier than previous generations, which had to learn the ins and outs of the industry in order to be effective with their money. We can see this boosted confidence again with increased adaptation of services like Acorns, which make saving and investing automated, and Robinhood, which makes stock-trading decisions free and mistakes less significant.
The investment platforms mentioned above have all made stock trading accessible to a wider range of people through different approaches, but have uniformly shifted the millennial generation’s perception of the industry.
Baby boomers, Gen Xers and millennials all perceive real estate differently, as well. Growing up in an America with new suburbs popping up every month, baby boomers view properties as nest eggs that people plan on living in for years. To them, owning a home was an accomplishment that checked off a box on their adulthood to-do list, or, in other words, it was expected.
In general, Gen Xers originally viewed finding a place to live similarly to baby boomers, but when the housing bubble burst in 2007, and a lot of them lost the homes in which they were supposed to raise their new families, their views changed. Since the burst, the United States has become a nation of renters, with recovering Gen Xers and non-stationary millennials leading the trend. In turn, landlords have seen great profits due to landmark increases in rent rates, making buy and hold rental properties a “must have” in one’s retirement portfolio.

Have you Heard? We're hiring! Managed Solution was at the Coleman University career fair yesterday mingling with great candidates, check out open positions and apply today!

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Managed Solution was at the Coleman University career fair yesterday!

We're hiring! Here at Managed Solution, we thrive in an energetic, performance-driven environment where results, teamwork, and quality of customer satisfaction are recognized and rewarded. Our corporate culture is diverse, open and creative. Above all, we are focused on organically growing our solution service offerings while delivering outstanding client support. We look for team members with proven experience, a strong sense of passion and dedication to the highest levels of excellence, technology and business ethics.

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Derrick Ho Player of the Month (February 2016)

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Congratulations to Derrick Ho, Technical Support Specialist, for being selected as Managed Solution's February 2016 Player of the Month.
This award is given on a monthly basis to a Managed Solution employee who has done an amazing job of exemplifying and living up to the Managed Solution Core Values.
The Managed Solution leadership team selected Derrick Ho as Player of the Month because he goes above and beyond to meet client needs and is always willing to take on challenging projects with a smile. Derrick began his career at Managed Solution as an intern in 2014 then joined the team full-time as a Customer Support Representative responsible for working with Technical Account Managers on projects and documentation at client sites and providing excellent customer support. Derrick has since been promoted to a Technical Support Specialist and always receives excellent reviews by customers and colleagues. His dedication to grow with the company is recognized and appreciated.
Derrick's positive demeanor and passion to learn and excel in the industry is inspiring, therefore leadership is excited to award his dedication and hard work with this month's Player of the Month.
Managed Solution recognizes outstanding employees (players) by awarding them Player of the Month. This award is given on a monthly basis to a Managed Solution player who has knocked the socks off of one of our members of leadership by living up to the Managed Solution Core Values on a daily basis. Our values are important. They’re the foundation behind all we do. Players of the Month are recognized and highlighted on the Wall of Fame and rewarded with an extra day of PTO to use on a day of their choice.
Congratulations to all of our Players of the Month:
Here at Managed Solution we thrive in an energetic, performance-driven environment where results, teamwork, and quality of customer satisfaction are recognized and rewarded. Our corporate culture is diverse, open and creative. We look for team members with proven experience, a strong sense of passion and dedication to the highest levels of excellence, technology and business ethics.
At Managed Solution, we strive to be the best technology based company by investing in our top assets; our people - CAREERS

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