Podcast: Stratosphere and Avant answer the urgent call from Illinois for a Hospital to be built in Chicago’s McCormick Place in 2 weeks.

It is not often that you find yourself in a situation where your state government calls you for help. That is what happened to Kendra Karczewski, Enterprise Technology Advisor at Stratosphere Networks.  While activating their internal team, who is she going to call? Her trusted advisor and team Avant lead by President Drew Lydecker. This is an amazing story with loads of insight on how private industry comes together to respond to the needs of their state and beloved city. McCormick Place is a massive convention center that was designated as an emergency hospital location that will house 3000 patient beds. Kendra’s task was to coordinate the major task of getting the communications for the hospital set up. Drew Lydecker Kendra Karczewski Once Drew was contacted, Avant jumped into action and started assembling a team of companies that would be involved.  That team included: Stratosphere Networks – A multifaceted IT managed service provider Evolve IP - a provider of collaboration, workspaces and contact centers for healthcare organizations Ignyte - a provider of collaboration, workspaces and contact centers for healthcare organizations RapidScale - Is a global managed cloud services provider Spectrotel – A national next-generation aggregator Synoptek - A leading provider of HIPAA-compliant healthcare information technology Trustwave - A leading cybersecurity and managed security services Listen in to both Drew and Kendra describe the total team effort that was successfully completed to help stem the overflow of the hospital systems due to the CoronaVirus outbreak. While the process was brutally hard with long hours and loaded with stress, the goal of saving lives in Chicago during worldwide emergency was accomplished! For more information, go to: https://www.stratospherenetworks.com/ or https://goavant.net/