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Red Level's President and CEO

Red Level Is Part Of The Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce

As the nation comes together to slow the spread of COVID-19, President Trump, the Coronavirus Task Force, and Governor Whitmer have asked America's to “Stay Home, Stay Safe” and close all nonessential business. Red Level is clearly classified as a critical infrastructure operation by the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and we will stay open AND stay safe to meet our special responsibility to our clients and country. The entire Red Level team is working to maintain commands centers, secure data centers, client service centers, and infrastructure support. We're also helping companies transition employees to work-from-home operations. Red Level is also here to support new clients in need of outsourced IT support – no matter if it's to handle increased demands on helpdesk, alleviate budget concerns, or to temporarily fill key roles during the crisis. And our tech consultants and developers are available to support your ...

David King2023-02-16T16:01:23+00:00

Hat Trick for Red Level

It's official: Red Level is decidedly cool! Red Level has been named one of Michigan's Cool Places to Work by Crain's Detroit Business for the third year in a row. We put our people and culture at the forefront of our efforts. Our goal is to have our employees invested in our work while working together to proudly represent Red Level’s values. We continually implement new ideas to help cultivate an innovative environment while maintaining our values as we grow, and we make sure we always put our employees first. There are many reasons why Red Level is a "Cool Place" to work. Earlier this year, we were awarded the Michigan Skill Trade Fund which allows us to provide our employees with the training necessary to advance their careers. Employees in every department were able to participate in training and development opportunities. We allow flexible schedules and work from home days for ...

David King2023-02-16T16:01:27+00:00

Top 3 Reasons to Recycle Your E-Waste This Earth Day

To celebrate Earth Day and welcome spring to Michigan, Red Level brought our clients, business partners, and community together to recycle their outdated technology at our annual Spring Cleaning events in Grand Rapids and Novi. The events encourage our communities to act on protecting the earth through proper recycling and helps them to retire outdated technology that leaves their organizations vulnerable. This year we were able to recycle 5,260 pounds (2.58 tons) of old servers, laptops, scanners, printers, and PCs at our Spring Cleaning events. When it comes time to clean out your tech storage bins don’t just toss your old technology equipment. Recycle it. Recycling outdated technology benefits your business in three major ways: Efficiency Devices that are over five years old have passed their prime; performing 2.5 times slower with 3 times less battery life when compared to a newer device. Not only is the device itself is ...

David King2023-02-16T16:01:28+00:00

Red Level Acquires C/D/H to Expand Business IT Services Across Michigan

Partnership will enable digital transformation for businesses throughout the state Novi, MI — February 5, 2019 — Red Level has announced its strategic acquisition of Grand Rapids, MI-based business and technology consultancy C/D/H. As of February 1, the combined companies will give businesses across Michigan access to a broader array of IT services — including custom application development, business analytics and collaboration tools — all under Red Level, one of Detroit’s leading comprehensive technology and managed services providers. “C/D/H has an outstanding reputation for providing the best IT services and consulting throughout Michigan for the past 30 years, and Red Level is excited to build upon that strong base,” said Red Level CEO David King. “We expect this partnership will create new business in new areas, which will lead to increased hiring and continued growth.” Founded in 1990, C/D/H imagines, architects and creates technical solutions to strengthen businesses and help ...

David King2023-02-16T16:01:30+00:00

Cool Once, Cool Always? We Hope So.

It was right about this time last year that I mentioned in this space that Crain’s Detroit Business had named Red Level to their “Cool Places To Work In Michigan” list, and we are honored to be chosen again. For the second year in a row, Red Level has been honored with the “Cool Places” designation. It’s an award that means a lot to us – which would not be possible without our amazing and dedicated staff. As you’ve probably noticed, Metropolitan Detroit and Southeast Michigan have become much cooler places to do business in recent times. In contending for “Cool Places” honors, it’s become a lot harder to stand out in the crowd, but that's something we at Red Level love to do. We were up against bike rental startups, maker spaces, venture-funded entrepreneurs and a host of other “cool” businesses that have chosen to make our area their home over the last ...

David King2023-02-16T16:01:35+00:00

Eight is Great!

Red Level named as one of "Detroit's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" for eighth consecutive year Not to be arrogant, but we kinda thought this might be coming. For the eighth year in a row, Red Level's been named to the National Association of Business Resources' Detroit's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For list. That makes us very happy, just as it has for each of the last seven years - even if we aren't completely surprised. In all honesty, any well-run business should have at least some idea as to how well it's performing according to a variety of metrics beyond dollars and cents. To our way of thinking, one of these has to be employee satisfaction. In our view, it simply makes good business sense to make sure that the people you hire enjoy what they do, enjoy where they work, have opportunities ...

David King2023-02-16T16:01:42+00:00

YES, WE REALLY ARE THAT COOL!

It’s official: Red Level is decidedly cool. You don’t have to take our word for it. Just ask Crain’s, or the folks at Best Companies Group – they’ll tell you. In fact, they’re telling the world. And we’re not shy, so we’ll announce it too: Red Level has been officially been proclaimed one of the 2017 Cool Places To Work in Michigan by Crain’s Detroit Business. We couldn’t be more pleased. “Cool,” of course, means different things to different people. Depending on your perspective, it could mean having a “Bring your Lhasa-apso to work day,” an indoor lacrosse field, or hot and cold running Red Bull. We’re not cool in that way. But we seem to be cool enough to pass muster with Best Companies Group’s judging team, who got a good hard look at who we are, what we do, and how we do it. It meant peering under ...

David King2023-02-16T16:01:43+00:00

The Redmond Channel Partner Top 200: We’ll Feel At Home Here

Most of us are familiar with that special feeling that comes from time to time when you know you’re performing professionally at the top of your game. It’s beyond the sense of simply knowing you’re doing a good job – it’s the sense of hitting a home run, and being confident that you could immediately go out and do it again. That’s how I’m feeling about our Red Level team these days. Some recent news we received from Redmond Channel Partner, Microsoft’s knowledge-sharing site for Microsoft solution providers, is one of the main reasons why. We recently announced that Red Level had been named to Redmond Channel Partner’s “Top 200 Solution Providers” list, an annual index of the top 200 Microsoft solution providers in the USA. It probably sounds like “inside baseball” to anyone outside the IT field, but from our standpoint it’s pretty significant: The listing served as a ...

David King2023-02-16T16:01:44+00:00

Reaching A Red-Ribbon, Red-Letter Milestone

Red Level moved into our new headquarters a little more than a month ago. The paint was barely dry, the furniture freshly installed, the floors completely scuff-free. Most of our employees could barely wait to move in. Within a matter of minutes after the certificate of occupancy was issued, most were on their way, and our old Catherine Industrial Drive headquarters became a ghost town. Since then, it’s been an exciting time: We’ve settled well into our new quarters, and we’re making the most of having enough space to work as efficiently and effectively as we’d like – and we certainly like having more room to grow. All of us have the palpable sense that this move marks the start of even bigger and better things to come. There’s a lot to be said for big moves and new beginnings. And there’s even more to enjoy when you have friends, ...

David King2023-02-16T16:01:46+00:00

Here’s to Bright Ideas – And New Possibilities

As of today, Red Level is reaching an important milestone: We’re spending our last day in our old offices on Catherine Industrial Drive. Tomorrow, we begin a fresh, more expansive chapter in our story with our move to our new state-of-the-art offices in Novi. This new chapter takes us down the road to Grand River Ave. Our new offices are nearly triple the size of our former space, and boast not only a fresh new décor, but the latest game-changing technologies. I think we’re going to like it here. This move is the result of a lot of planning, a lot of deliberation, and a lot of hard work on the part of our team - and it signals a significant achievement for our company. Our growth hasn’t just pushed us beyond the capacity of our former quarters; it has progressed to the point that we can nearly triple the ...

David King2023-02-16T16:01:47+00:00

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