For even the smallest businesses, IT is crucial to success.

Your IT strategy is more than just hiring someone to handle tech support. It is examining your business and determining how technology can help it grow to scale and increase profitability.

With over 10 years of operational experience spanning multiple geographical areas, Stokes Consultancy focuses on guiding companies in the student housing and education sectors that are on the cusp of expansion.

  • Hardware/software procurement

  • Vendor management

  • SOP drafting

  • M&A due diligence planning

  • IT roadmap development

Let’s work together to make IT an integral part of your 21st-century business.

Leadership
Ken Stokes, Principal
ken@stokes-consultancy.com

A Chicago-based IT professional with over 10 years of experience in the student housing and education industries. He earned his Bachelor’s in Network Technologies at DePaul University. Having worked on various IT systems over his career, he is a big-picture thinker who knows when to stay at 10,000 feet and when to dive into the weeds.

Professional experience includes IT leadership and operational roles at a large privately-held student housing owner-operator, a large U.S. A1 research university, and a regional retail chain.

He takes a people-first approach, where the client’s actual need is always the focus, and will never push a technology solution without first understanding the “what” and the “why”.

  • Technologies
    Networking, servers, wireless LAN, endpoint computing, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Mobile Device Management, VOIP

  • Vendors
    Microsoft, Cisco, Meraki, Apple, Dell, Zoom, Synology, Google

  • Experience
    Project planning, strategizing, IT operations, M&A due diligence

  • Certifications
    CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, Microsoft 365 Admin