JR Foster — Chief Technology Officer at CRC Group

About JR Foster

JR Foster is Chief Technology Officer at CRC Group. Location: Charleston, West Virginia, United States.

Highly energetic with 20 years of experience in Information Technology. I strive to learn a new technology or another line of code every day. My best motivation is a challenge, always willing to take on the impossible task or a critical deadline. Career traverses working for multiple Fortune 500 Domestic and International Companies. Accomplishments: - Cloud Architecture in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments - Office 365 Implementation (Exchange. OneDrive, SharePoint) - Automation (Cloud Services) - Skype Enterprise Voice Implementation - Over 20 Active Directory, Exchange, Lotus Notes Migrations using self-written scripts or Dell - One Migration Manager Tools. Largest Migration 7,000 users. - Global Exchange Design and Implementation for site resiliency and disaster recovery. - Implementation of Unified Communications Platform on premise – Skype for Business - Design and Implementation of Archiving System to support Document Retention Guidelines - Identity and Access Management Deployment. - Automation of User Management between HR and Active Directory Systems. - Self-written Automation Scripts for Window 7 Migration.’ Skill Set: - Scripting (Powershell, VBScript) - Terraform - Active Directory - Enterprise Email Systems (Exchange, Lotus Notes, Office 365) - Unified Communications – Skype for Business, Sonus 1000\2000 Session Border Controllers - Load Balancing – F5 Big IP (LTM, APM) - Implementation of SAML supporting SAAS Applications - Symantec Enterprise Vault - SQL Server - VMWare ESX - Citrix - Identity Access Management

Skills

VMware
DNS
Troubleshooting

Additional experience

Chief Enterprise Architect
CRC Group
Started January 2025

Education

Associate's degree, West Virginia Junior College Charleston Campus

Current role

Title: Chief Technology Officer
Company: CRC Group
Location: Charleston, West Virginia, United States
Started: August 2026

About CRC Group

CRC Group is all about progress. CRC Group is a leading, fully independent pure-play brokerage and underwriting specialty insurance distributor. Our teams offer highly personalized service fueled by efficient distribution, local relationships, and data-driven insights across the risk spectrum. Our mission is to give our people and businesses the scope, resources, and support they need to be their best.The power to achieve more.United by our shared core values and client-first approach, our specialty wholesale and underwriting insurance businesses work across all markets, serving a wide range of clients.With an independent spirit fueling our people, the most advanced industry technology at their fingertips, and an unwavering commitment to doing things right, CRC Group is your secret weapon, ensuring nothing gets in the way of your success.Our core values add real value.Our ambition is to be the best specialty insurance distributor you'll ever work with. Doing that means focusing relentlessly on you and your clients. We've boiled our approach down to three values. They define our culture, guide our actions, and get results for you.Placing you first.We're all about your success. Whether you're a retail broker, a carrier partner, or one of our talented team who makes our business tick.Always seeking better.No matter how good our products and services are, we look for ways we can make them even better. We identify, invest in, and deliver them.Doing it right.There's no substitute for discipline in insurance, so we never risk the outcome for the sake of doing a deal. Doing it right is the only way we'll do it.CRC Group divisions include: CRC Specialty, CRC Benefits, CRC Underwriting.

Industry: Insurance
Company size: 5001-10000
Website: crcgroup.com

About JR Foster

Skills

Additional experience

Chief Enterprise Architect

Education