Meet the people at Blue Tree Technology®. They support Kansas City businesses with managed IT, cybersecurity, and the everyday work of the company. You can reach the team Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 6 PM Central, excluding holidays.
Meet the team
Matt Horning
CEO
Matt has been in IT since 1996. He started by installing PCs at the North Kansas City School District. From there he took corporate systems administration roles. In 2001 he founded an IT business of his own and kept it for about 15 years, with managed services for clients around Kansas City. Later he acquired companies and merged them to form Blue Tree Technology®. He concentrates on cyber threat mitigation, on compliance, and on fitting each solution to the client in front of him.
Isadora Horning
President
Isadora's technology career covers more than 10 years, and she has been president of Blue Tree Technology® for more than five of them. She runs administrative operations, billing, payroll, human resources, accounts payable and receivable, purchasing, and the larger organizational decisions. Before that she handled operations for a consulting firm and co-managed Velocity Computer Tech. She supports how the service gets delivered, the compliance work, and the trust clients place in the company, using precise administrative work. She also plans around current managed service plans and partnerships that last.
Chris Aranda
COO
Chris has spent more than 20 years leading technology services and operations in regulated financial settings. His experience includes tightening processes, using performance metrics, managing operational risk, and governing how service is delivered. He is chief operating officer at Blue Tree Technology®. He pays attention to support that responds reliably, to projects getting delivered, to escalations, and to steady improvement. He supports consistent results and service level target performance, keeps the work customer-first, and works with technical and client-facing teams so operations follow the goals of the business.
Jeff Read
Director of Client Experience
Jeff has given more than 30 years to customer service and to sales. He is practiced at improving a process, solving the problem in front of him, and making service delivery hold together. As Director of Client Experience for Blue Tree Technology®, he builds client relationships, watches day-to-day efficiency, and leads the people who deliver service. Troubleshooting and direct client work support help that responds quickly, engagements that stay smooth, and issues that get resolved early.
Ivan Allhiser
Service Delivery Team Lead
Ivan began his IT career in Tier 1 Service Desk support in the insurance sector, advancing through perseverance and continuous learning into systems administration, network administration, and IT consulting. His extensive MSP experience spans client onboarding, tool deployments, service migrations, and workstation upgrades. Ivan leads IT project management, connecting leadership priorities with service delivery execution. With a strong focus on governance, he develops technical knowledge base resources, policies, and procedures that support consistency and accountability. He brings proactive problem-solving and a commitment to "white glove" service to every engagement.
Kevin Murphey
Tier 3 IT Engineer
Kevin has been with managed service providers for a long time and has worked at several levels of the job. Those roles include Level 1 technician, escalation contact, sales and quoting, and leading a team. Most of that work was in the dental sector: on-site support, running projects, and the full range of PC and Microsoft technologies. He troubleshoots, deploys systems, and tunes an IT environment toward more efficiency and more reliability.
James Carter
Tier 2 IT Engineer
James spent nine years with managed service providers and four years doing break-fix support, which trained him to troubleshoot quickly and repair systems under pressure. He works directly with PC hardware, configures networks, and helps the people using them. Skills he taught himself, including 3D printing, shaped how he solves a problem. He puts a complicated idea into plain language and often reaches for an everyday analogy so the next step is obvious.
Glen Sharp
Sales Admin
Glen Sharp is the Sales Admin at Blue Tree Technology®. He joined the team in 2017 and brings decades of hands-on technology experience, from field engineering at Texas Instruments to more than two decades as a storage and systems administrator at Waddell & Reed. He's our jack of all trades and the glue of the business, and when we need him he'll dial in from wherever he is. Every summer that's the mountains of Montana, where he spends his time sending the rest of us photos of bears, moose and other wildlife while we're stuck in the office. We all strive to be Glen, and around here he's fondly known as Glen the Bear Wrestler.
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