Christi is the Chief Information Officer at Crimson IT, specializing in managed IT and cybersecurity for businesses throughout Southern California. She has led infrastructure modernization, regulatory compliance initiatives, and disaster recovery design for organizations ranging from small management teams to multi-location metro portfolios. Her work focuses on aligning technology with operational resilience in Southern California’s complex business environment.
Your renewal is either coming up or it just passed, and someone in your organization has already forwarded you the Microsoft 365 E7 announcement. Now you are sitting with a real budget question: do you move to E7 when it launches tomorrow, wait six months, or stay where you are? That question has a real […]
This article was originally published by Christi Brown on AdapToIT and is republished here with permission. My AI minions got organizational charts this quarter. Full job descriptions, team assignments, reporting structures, and measurable output. World domination is still on the table… mostly… first, we’ve got to train the army and it might take a while. […]
I have been in enough Southern California SMB leadership meetings to notice a pattern nobody talks about directly: when it comes to AI for business teams, the CFO’s summaries are sharp, specific, and actionable, and the IT team’s AI output is a five-paragraph essay that helps nobody. Same tool. Same subscription. Wildly different results. This […]
Your nonprofit could be one data breach away from serious damage, yet many organizations are still managing IT with an office manager who’s “good with computers” and a prayer. I’m not exaggerating. I’ve walked into nonprofits handling thousands of patient records with zero HIPAA documentation. I’ve seen case management systems running on hardware from 2012 […]
If you manage properties in Los Angeles, your IT environment doesn’t look like anyone else’s. Not a law firm’s, not a healthcare group’s, not a financial services company’s. You’re running Yardi or MRI across a mixed portfolio of buildings. Your staff is scattered across multiple locations, sometimes dozens of them. You’re handling tenant financial data […]
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