Joseph Craven
Email: jcraven@unitedforce.net
Joe Craven is an engineering graduate of UC Berkeley (1989) and lives in the Bay Area raising his family with his wife Elizabeth.
After starting a computer consulting business and a car racing team, Joe worked in engineering at Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corporation, Electron Beam Vacuum Technologies, and Leybold Materials. He programmed systems to automate manufacturing processes in the aerospace industry, including creating thermobarrier coatings for turbines and using electron beams to melt and refine superalloys.
Joe decided to move over to mainstream IT as his vision was that information technology would drive the next revolution in communications. Joe started with Sprint as an IT manager, which then led to various Bay Area startups implementing broadband internet technology, video conferencing and video on demand as the Internet was getting developed and implemented.
Over the past decades, Joe has worked in Director-level positions with international companies, building and implementing technology to enhance international collaboration, driving improved efficiencies and profitability while planning for disaster avoidance, 99.99% uptime and compliance with disparate security requirements throughout the various regions of our planet.
Joe has gone back to his consulting roots and has joined and thrived with United Force for nearly two years, assisting various United Force clients operate at peak efficiency.