About Our Founder
For over 25 years, Joey Lutes has been a technologist with an successful career in a vast array of various technologies. His adventures through nearly every major facet of technology has given him an extremely wide skillset which allows him to architect complex solutions and lead teams through the integrations required for each company’s evolution.
Beanzoom was born with a desire to be a key partner with small businesses, managing the ever-changing world of technology so business owners can concentrate on growing their company knowing that the tech tools they use are stable, insightful and get the job done right.
The Early Days
Beginning his career at Gateway computers, Joey spent a number of years building, configuring and managing PCs/Laptops, networks and servers and enterprise domains for a variety of companies and schools, personally building over 1000 PCs!
In the late 90s, his company VirtualWow was born, specializing in website design, web hosting and app development for small and medium-sized business where the company continued designing and hosting websites for 10 years before the company was eventually closed.
During this time, Joey began working for Sprint, entering the telecom networking space. The team where he got his start was an elite group of engineers who managed 10s of thousands of routers of all shapes and sizes throughout Sprint’s vast network. Within a few years, he moved into the Fiber Optic space, planning and deploying DWDM and SONET equipment, building out Sprint’s gargantuan fiber network. Eventually he moved into the business side where he was crucial in leading Sprint’s Carrier Ethernet evolution and personally interacted with nearly every major US carrier on a consistent basis to facilitate the ever-expanding network that supports the Internet as we know it today.
Return to Software
After leaving Sprint in 2014, Joey would take his special skillset back into full-stack development, working on teams who developed immense software applications specifically for top tier telecom companies. The cutting edge software, led and designed by some of the most brilliant minds in the business, allowed carriers to view their physical, logical and virtual networks in real time using a state-of-the-art networking mapping display. Joey led several teams, both engineering and development whose job it was to ensure that the vast amount of data ingested was captured, processed and ultimately displayed correctly. Joey went on to personal develop one of the primary test system applications that performed these testing and validation processes in seconds where it used to take an engineer multiple days.
Post COVID-19
COVID brought with it its own unique challenges and opportunities. The software company where he worked was bought by a global conglomerate and eventually absorbed then dismantled.
Since 2020, Joey has been a technology consultant providing services from software architecture, full-stack development leadership, small business tech integration and cloud services. His wealth of experience allows him to adapt to nearly every type of technology solution and build cost-effective and streamlined infrastructures.
Beanzoom was born in 2024, taking consulting to the next level, branching out into a myriad of industries, concepts and companies.
