Chris Owens — Chief Technology Officer at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.

About Chris Owens

Chris Owens is Chief Technology Officer at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Location: Houston, Texas, United States.

Chris Owens is the Chief Technology Officer for Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Based in Houston, TX, Chris has over 20 years of consulting and technology management experience designing technical systems and leading initiatives for Am Law 100 firms in areas including desktop design and management, cloud adoption, data center transformation, disaster recovery and business continuity planning and implementation, email messaging design and migration, document management system deployment and hybrid\thin-client architecture. As former the Practice Group Leader of the Enterprise Client Systems Practice, Chris led a team of consultants to offer desktop deployment strategies, virtual desktop infrastructure design, application virtualization scenarios, and remote access planning. In addition, Chris continues to lead discussions at numerous industry events and has presented at several ILTACON conferences, on topics ranging from data center consolidation and server virtualization to virtual desktop infrastructure and application virtualization. Before joining Kraft Kennedy, Chris worked on Compaq Computer Corporation’s Network Technology Development Team. Chris is a graduate of the University of Texas and holds several vendor certifications, including Microsoft, Citrix CCA and NetScaler, VMware VCP, iManage CSA, and Open Text CHP.

Skills

Virtualization
VMware
Citrix

Additional experience

Practice Group Leader
Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
July 2009 – March 2018

Education

BS, The University of Texas at Austin

Current role

Title: Chief Technology Officer
Company: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Started: January 2018

About Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.

Kraft Kennedy is a multidisciplinary technology and management consulting firm. With more than 36 years of experience, we have learned that the key to successful IT is to focus as much on the business needs of the client as on technology. At Kraft Kennedy we assure every client personalized attention by forming teams dedicated to exceeding expectations with custom solutions. Our teams are comprised of leading systems engineers, strategy specialists, and project managers. They are guided by lawyers, CIOs, and Executive Directors who provide invaluable advice and direction. Headquartered in New York, with offices in Chicago, Houston, and Wilton, CT., Kraft Kennedy counts law firms, financial organizations, and professional service firms among the clients who rely on our deep expertise and wide breadth of experience. With a 24x7 network operations center and modern as-as-service solutions, we are known for our uniquely deep expertise in IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, desktop design, project management, DMS, advisory services, and procurement. Clients range from small, local firms to large national companies. We are proud to have been voted a Top IT consulting firm by the International Legal Technology Association and to be a Microsoft Solutions Partner and Microsoft Premier Exchange Support Partner.

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size: 51-200
Website: kraftkennedy.com