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The Fantastic Five: P1 Group’s IT Department While technically billed as a “support” department, there’s a lot more to P1 Group’s small-but-mighty five-person IT Department than meets the eye. In today’s digital age, the company simply would not survive without the dedication, strategy, proactive solutions and expertise of our “fantastic five.” Between headquarters, the field and additional P1 offices, IT Manager Cameron Cooper says the team has to do a lot more than fix things - they have to be proactive and strategic in building systems and tools that are standardized for better efficiency and upkeep. “We try to leverage remote tools as much as possible,” Cameron said. “Like remote controlling laptops and desktops. When you get into the number of devices we manage, you have to think about them as whole and not individually.” Cameron notes one key to success is using tools that not only fix problems, but prevent them, including inventory and software managers. These tools can deploy what’s needed quickly and automatically without a lot of personal intervention needed.
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You’ll see team members around our regional offices in Lawrence, Topeka, Wichita and St. Joseph. They have rotating schedules at different locations and Vanessa Taylor, IT Special Projects, often accompanies Corporate Trainer Sarah Garcia to training events. The team gets to the Las Vegas office about twice a year to do an IT “health check” or implement items that require onsite personnel. Cameron says preplanning and consistency is another way IT keeps things running more smoothly. “Whether it’s an office or jobsite, we typically try to have a standard set of equipment that is common across all of our locations,” he said. When Cameron started with P1 six years ago, he says the team worked (very successfully) to build infrastructure and expand the footprint into other offices. Today, they work to proactively maintain those systems and their work doesn’t stop in the technology room. The team has transformed itself to be more integral in the business process. “Systems around accounting, phones and different
IT STATS 4,000+ Helpdesk requests completed (2018) 406 laptops and/or desktop computers 816 company mobile devices: iphones + ipads 399 telephone lines for office phones 946 mobile telephone lines acquired this year from purchasing 41 Servers 40-50+ Terabytes of information. (One terabyte is 1,000 times bigger than a gigabyte) Bluebeam eXtreme Award Winner/2017 Bluebeam eXtreme Award Finalist/2018
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Matt Damon
Vanessa Taylor
Cody McCray
Trevor Payne