Blog Posts

10 Min With: Senior Consultant Tugcem Kurbanzade

7/10/2023

Meet Tugcem Kurbanzade, a Senior Consultant on our team who joined RedCloud last year. She’s quickly become a valuable member of our team, leveraging her expertise in Microsoft Power Platform technologies to help our clients. Read on to learn more about Tugcem, how she envisions the future of consulting, and what piece of technology she can’t live without!

Welcome Spring 2023 New Hires

6/30/2023

We’re excited to see our team continue to expand with a new group of professionals joining us this spring and early summer, adding depth and unique skills to RedCloud, and helping our clients achieve great things. Read on to learn more about each new RedCloud employee, hear about some of their interests away from their client work, and connect with them on LinkedIn.
Are you seeking a new career opportunity or track to apply your skills and experience? Please connect with our RedCloud recruiting team! Visit our Careers page to apply for open roles, reach out to our team, and follow us on LinkedIn for hiring updates.

Supporting Junior Achievement Through Pro Bono Marketing and BI Consulting Services

6/22/2023

Junior Achievement of Washington (known as “JA”) has been a partner of RedCloud for many years, with our consultants volunteering in classrooms around the Seattle area to teach JA’s business and finance curriculum to elementary students, and to help support JA’s “BizTown”, a unique marketplace where students operate a micro-economy for a day. Those experiences provide important hands-on opportunities for our team to volunteer in the community at the nexus of RedCloud’s community program: children and education.

Maximizing the Value of your Chatbot

6/15/2023

Today in our ongoing Learning Series from RedCloud's Business Intelligence & Service (BS&I) team, Senior Associate Matt Little dives into the technology and strategy behind the use of chatbots driven by artificial intelligence. Matt is a member of our skilled BS&I team, who has previously shared his thoughts on RedCloud and the industry in our 10 Minutes With profiles.

AI Chatbots have quickly become an integral part of our digital lives, and more and more businesses are adopting them as an enhancement to their user’s experience every day. We already see Chatbots serving many purposes. They can be a virtual assistant/co-pilot, sales/lead generator, customer support agent, self-service portal for IT troubleshooting or HR questions, and much more. However, not all Chatbots are created equal. As a new adopter of Chatbots, you may be asking yourself “How do I ensure that my Chatbot is becoming more efficient and effective over time?”.

People First! Sharing Employee Kudos

6/6/2023

At RedCloud, we pride ourselves on being a people-first company, grounded in a belief that the amazing employees on our team create success for clients and their co-workers alike. While working in a remote or hybrid style work environment has increasingly become the norm, in-person "thanks" are more rare, so we believe in highlighting our employees successes to shine a light on their powerful work. Read on for some recent employee kudos from some of RedCloud's clients.

10 Min With Marco Gastelum: Senior Associate

6/1/2023

Meet Marco, a valued senior associate on our team who recently returned to RedCloud to join our Business Solutions and Intelligence team. With deep consulting experience and previous RedCloud experience, he has a bright future ahead. Read on to learn more about Marco and his role at RedCloud, what attracted him to our team, and hear about his goals for 2023.

May “Lunch & Learn” Focuses on Mental Resilience with Positive Intelligence

5/17/2023

One of our most popular consultant-focused professional development opportunities is RedCloud’s regular “Lunch & Learn” sessions during which we bring relevant and practical learnings to our team. Our most recent L&L session in early May was no exception, as leadership and life coach Dat Tran focused on “Mental Resilience with Positive Intelligence” - skills and approaches that can help any professional in today’s quick-moving, pressure filled world!

Microsoft 365 Conference | Day 3 Highlights

5/10/2023

Office Scripts in Excel and more

The final breakout session of the weekend for us was on Office Scripts in Excel. This is a relatively new feature that helps automate tasks, both inside Excel, but also outside of the context of an Excel file. In our opinion, these Scripts are an underutilized capability.

Microsoft 365 Conference | Day 2 Highlights

5/4/2023

Day 2 at the Microsoft 365 Conference focused on two main themes: Copilot and Viva announcements. Below is a recap of some of our top announcements and notes.

Consultant Highlight: Threat Intelligence Expert Bidemi Ologunde

5/3/2023

Meet Bidemi Ologunde! He joined RedCloud in May 2022 as a threat intelligence consultant. When he’s not gathering and analyzing potential security threats for clients, he’s sharing the latest developments in cybersecurity and intelligence on his podcast, “The Bid Picture Podcast.” Read on to learn more about Bidemi, his role at RedCloud, and how he’s helping our clients address some of the largest cyber challenges of the day!