Meet The Team
Trent Milliron
CEO & Founder
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one’s consciousness, the refusal to think—not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. - Ayn Rand
- Expertise: Professional Selling
- Hometown: Shelby, OH
- First job: Waiter - Ponderosa Steakhouses
- Education and training: Ohio University - BA Managment Information Systems
- Number of computers at home: 2
- Hobbies: Weight Training; Shooting
- Fuel: Hyde Park Red Velvet Cake
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: Cool Atmosphere! I have a Fire Poll in my office.
- Recharging zone: Hyde Park
- Apps I can't live without: E-trade
- Tech tip: Need tech help, call Kloud9
Nicole Milliron
Director of Operations
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: “How you do anything is how you do everything”
- Expertise: Sales and marketing
- Hometown: Warren, Ohio
- First job: McDonald’s, “yes, I worked for a clown”
- Education and training: Family Nurse Practitioner
- Number of computers at home: 4
- Hobbies: Tennis
- Fuel: Time alone with a relaxing tea or glass of wine and a lifetime movie
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: We keep growing but customers get that “small company feeling” …I love our team!
- Apps I can't live without: Poshmark, TJMax, Huntington bank, Spotify
- Tech tip: Call Josh
Kim Stull
Executive Assistant to the CEO
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: There are no dumb questions!
- Expertise: Customer Service & Organizational Skills
- Hometown: Newton Falls, Ohio
- First job: Gillettes Nursing Home
- Education and training: Associate Degree
- Number of computers at home: 1
- Hobbies: Shopping & watching my soap (Days of our Lives)
- Fuel: Chocolate
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: My Boss is my son-in-law!
- Recharging zone: Watching my Soap
- Apps I can't live without: Google
- Tech tip: Don’t keep clicking if computer doesn’t respond right away!!!
Derek Schroeder
Service Manager
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- Quote you like: “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always be where you’ve always been.”
- Expertise: 15+ years of IT experience including high-level infrastructure migrations, software and IT consulting / assessments, and client management.
- Hometown: Lakewood, OH
- First job: TOPS Supermarket – cart associate
- Education and training: Microsoft MCP, Barracuda Certified Engineer (multiple products)
- Number of computers at home: 2
- Hobbies: Exercise, watching sports, shooting, Netflix binging a season in a week
- Fuel: Caffeine in all varieties, spicy food
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: Passionate, dedicated team who cares about more than just resolving the problem at hand.
- Apps I can't live without: Spotify, Google Maps, banking apps
- Tech tip: You’re only as secure as your weakest password.
Helpdesk Support
Brian Bolls
Technical Service Engineer
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”
- Expertise: Jack of all trades, master of some
- Hometown: Sheffield Lake, Ohio
- First job: Paperboy
- Education and training: BS Computer Science — Kent State University
- Number of computers at home: 3
- Hobbies: Video games
- Fuel: A hot shower and morning cup of coffee
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: The staff and that dog that wanders into the office
- Apps I can't live without: I could live without my phone
- Tech tip: Using multiple Anti-virus suites at once may heavily slow down your PC; pick one.
Josh Herrman
Technical Service Engineer
Days at Kloud9 IT
“Do or do not, there is no try”
Expertise: Customer Service and Technical Support
Hometown: Cleveland
First job: Deli Clerk
Education/training: Computer and Networking Hardware Degree
Number of computers at home: One
Hobbies: Gaming and Theater
Fuel: Monster Energy
Favorite thing about Kloud9: Fast acting customer service
Apps I can't live without: Reddit, Wi-Fi Analyzer, and Netflix
Tech tip: First rule of IT, reboot it.
John Taylor
Technical Service Engineer
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: “Sometimes it’s not about being the most talented. Sometimes it’s not about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s about consistency!” – Eric Thomas
- Expertise: Troubleshooting field devices and networks
- Hometown: Omaha, NE
- First job: Kitchen Cook at Buffalo Wild Wings
- Education and training: B.S. Computer Science Engineering and Technology
- Number of computers at home: 4
- Hobbies: Working Out, Hiking, Traveling, Video Games
- Fuel: Coffee in the morning and pre-workout after work
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: The amount of variety in the work never lets things get stale and the occasional random dog visit
- Apps I can't live without: Google Maps and Twitter
- Tech tip: Don’t make your password the same for everything
Jacob Luna
Field Services
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: No such thing as a life that’s better than yours.
- Expertise: Super Smash Bros
- Hometown: Cleveland, OH
- First job: Duet Fine Catering
- Education and training: Graduated Lakewood High School, CompTIA A+
- Number of computers at home: 3
- Hobbies: Video games, bike riding, basketball, hanging with friends
- Fuel: Water
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: People
- Apps I can't live without: Snapchat, YouTube, Gmail, FB Messenger, Amazon, Spotify, Google
- Tech tip: If the PC won’t turn on power cycle it and try reseating the RAM
Brenton Kucera
Field Services
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: “If it aint broke, don’t fix it.”
- Expertise: Troubleshooting hardware and software
- Hometown: Toronto, ON
- First Job: Trainer at McDonalds
- Education/Training: Computer Networking Classes, Microsoft and Cisco certifications
- Number of Computers at Home: Only one
- Hobbies: Camping and Wrenching
- Fuel: Family and Monster
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: The professionalism of the employees here
- Apps I can’t live without: None
- Tech Tip: Don’t leave unattended computers unlocked
Jordan Tyler Kay
Field Technician
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: “Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.”
- Expertise: Teaching myself new techniques in the trade, and in life.
- Hometown: The United States (Was an Air Force Brat. Never settled down anywhere until now.)
- First job: A pizza maker at a mom & pop pizza shop when I was 13
- Education/training: Trinity High School.
- Number of computers at home: 4, if you include raspberry pis then 8.
- Hobbies: Writing, watching and collecting movies, woodworking, and teaching myself a new topic of interest.
- Fuel: Learning
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: Would have to be the atmosphere. Everyone welcomed me in like family my first day in the door.
- Apps I can't live without: Google, IMDB, Pintrest
- Tech tip: If something is not working right, turn it off then back on again. If the issue is still there, call Kloud9.
Project Team
David Ciranni
Systems Administrator
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Mark Milliron
Network Engineer
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” ― C.S. Lewis
- Expertise: Customer Service and Technical Support
- Hometown: Shelby, Ohio
- First job: Bagger at Cornell’s Grocery Store
- Education and training: Shelby Senior High, A.S. in Audio Engineering from Full Sail University.
- Number of computers at home: 1 Dell Desktop
- Hobbies: music, guitar playing, golfing, reading, binge watching Netflix
- Fuel: Rising Star Coffee
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: Building a company that meets and exceeds the IT needs of our awesome clients.
- Recharging zone: Playing fetch with my cat who thinks she’s a dog
- Apps I can't live without: Flipboard, Outlook, Firefox, Dictionary, Calculator
- Tech tip: rebooting can resolve many computer issues
Michael Eshel
Technical Services Engineer
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: A stitch in time saves nine.
- Expertise: Microsoft platforms, server consolidation / virtualization
- Hometown: Holon
- First job: Paper delivery boy
- Education and training: Microsoft Boot camps, self-study.
- Number of computers at home: 6
- Hobbies: Photography, motorcycles, cooking
- Fuel: High quality H20
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: Family owned
- Recharging zone: Purple Mattress
- Apps I can't live without: Do not disturb
- Tech tip: kloud9it.com
Robert 'Bob' Crabbs
Sr. Systems Administrator
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
- Expertise: Support of IT infrastructures including LAN/WAN, wireless, server, virtualization, security, and desktops
- Hometown: Norwalk, OH
- First Job: Golf course maintenance
- Education/Training: BBA Kent State University - Computer Science/Management Science
- Number of Computers at Home: 2
- Hobbies: Spending time with family
- Fuel: Cheeseburger and fries
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: The people
- Apps I can’t live without: WAZE
- Tech Tip: Call Kloud9 IT
Owen Brand
Systems Administrator
Days at Kloud9 IT
- Quote you like: Seek first to understand, then be understood
- Expertise: Windows and Linux environments, Project management and client services
- Hometown: Brownsville, TX
- First job: Bus Boy
- Education/training: El Centro College, lifelong love of learning.
- Number of computers at home: 4 at home and two in the cloud.
- Hobbies: Cooking, food, small farm life
- Fuel: Coffee and Indian food though mostly coffee
- Favorite thing about Kloud9: The open collaboration that makes the team work so well.
- Apps I can't live without: CopyMeThat = recipe bliss, YouTube, Spotify, rif is fun
- Tech tip: Use a good password manager to make your connected life easier and much more secure.
Web & Marketing Team
Joe Jurczyk
Web Designer