Enterprise IT thinking,
without the enterprise hire.
Your fractional IT Director. KW-based, battle-tested, hands-on.
15+ Years Experience
"Infrastructure worth millions. A full datacenter loss survived. Systems kept running through a nine-figure acquisition. That's the level Joka.ca brings to your company — without the enterprise overhead."
- > Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
- > M&A IT Auditing & Systems Integration
- > Multi-Site Network Infrastructure
- > Enterprise Storage, Servers & Procurement
// Fractional IT Leadership
Fractional IT Director
Most IT problems aren't technical failures — they're strategic ones. Nobody in the room with the experience to catch what's about to break. Joka.ca brings that judgment to KW-region companies: embedded in your business, direct, and hands-on when the work needs to get done.
* Initial consultation is offered at no charge. All consulting engagements are governed exclusively by a signed Statement of Work (SOW). Information on this site describes capabilities only and does not constitute a guarantee of specific outcomes or standards.
Someone is keeping
the lights on.
Nobody is making
the decisions.
IT support and IT strategy are different jobs. One keeps things running. The other shapes where the business is going. The gap between them is where things go wrong.
Your team grew.
Your infrastructure
didn't.
More people, more tools, more locations — and the same IT setup from three years ago holding everything together with workarounds and goodwill.
The next big decision
needs someone
who's been there.
Migration, acquisition, security audit, AI rollout. These aren't routine IT tasks — they're decisions that shape the business. Get them right the first time.
// What Joka.ca Does
Services
Enterprise-grade IT delivered without the enterprise overhead. Every engagement is hands-on — you work directly with Joka.ca, not through layers of account managers.
Fractional IT Director / vCIO
Your company is growing. IT decisions are being made without an IT director, or your current IT person is operationally buried and not providing strategic leadership. The Fractional IT Director engagement provides senior IT executive involvement — vendor governance, security posture, infrastructure roadmap, board-level communication — for a fraction of what a full-time hire costs. Designed for KW-region companies at 20 to 150 employees.
Monthly retainer · Typically 1–3 days/month
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
Full-stack recovery planning and execution, built on a real incident: complete failure, every employee and every customer affected, core services restored in 36 hours, zero data loss. When everything fails, you need someone who has already been there — and survived it.
M&A IT Auditing & Integration
Infrastructure validation and systems integration for acquisitions — confirming what exists, what's at risk, and what transfers safely. Hands-on experience in a nine-figure deal.
Multi-Site Network & Connectivity
pfSense, private fiber interconnects, switching, and enterprise LAN/WAN across distributed locations. Designed for resilience — with redundancy and single-point-of-failure elimination as core objectives.
Server, Storage & Procurement
Dell, VMware, Isilon, Data Domain, Synology — design, installation, configuration, and lifecycle management. Direct vendor relationships, no middleman markup.
Cloud & Platform Migration
Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Azure DNS, Cloudflare — migrations planned and executed with downtime minimization as a primary objective. Joka.ca has operated multiple platforms simultaneously at enterprise scale, including M365, Google Workspace, Azure DNS, and Cloudflare running in parallel across a five-site acquisition.
AI & OT Integration
Practical AI tool integration for operational workflows. Connect your existing infrastructure to AI platforms, automate repetitive IT processes, and build reliable OT/IoT data pipelines — grounded in real production robotics and automation environments.
// Proof of Capability
Proof of Work
The following is infrastructure operated in a personal production environment — a working demonstration that the architectures proposed for clients are ones that are actively maintained and understood at depth. Not case studies. Not vendor diagrams.
Encrypted Storage Volumes
Multi-drive NAS with at-rest encryption, off-site replication, and tested restore procedures — the same architecture proposed for clients. Enterprise-grade encrypted storage in an isolated on-premise environment designed for compliance and data sovereignty requirements.
Application Sandboxing
Containerised service isolation across the homelab stack — each application runs in its own namespace with defined network policies. Joka.ca builds isolated staging and production stacks for clients who need to ship with confidence.
Secure Communications
End-to-end encrypted messaging and call infrastructure, self-hosted, zero reliance on third-party communications platforms. Joka.ca implements equivalent architectures for clients where data leakage is not an option.
> incident: complete SAN failure — all core services offline simultaneously
> response: immediate triage, week-long recovery operation
> core_services: restored in 36 hours
> full_recovery: 7-day operation — completed
> data_loss: none
This was not a drill. No playbook existed for this failure mode. The environment was restored through direct systems knowledge and sustained execution under pressure. This is the judgment and execution you get when you bring Joka.ca in — for an acquisition, a DR review, or as your ongoing IT director.
// Engagement Process
How It Works
Free Discovery Call
30 minutes. You describe your situation; Joka.ca tells you what would actually help and why. If there's a fit, we scope it. No sales deck, no follow-up pressure.
Scoped Proposal
A clear Statement of Work with defined scope, deliverables, and timeline. No surprise scope creep.
Hands-On Delivery
You work directly with Joka.ca — one point of contact, end to end, who knows your environment.
Hand-Off & Docs
Full documentation — your team can own what was built. For companies that want embedded, ongoing IT leadership, the Fractional IT Director retainer is designed exactly for this: one trusted partner, in your corner, every month.
Kitchener-Waterloo based · Serving the KW region and broader Ontario · Select remote engagements available
Is a Fractional IT Director Right for Your Company?
Whether you need strategic IT leadership, hands-on delivery, or both — it starts with a 30-minute call.