About Us

Strategic IT Leadership That Connects Business Goals to Technical Execution

Built on 15 years of network engineering and a commitment to client accountability. Hear about it from our clients:

Stress Free Experience

“Our wireless network could not reach all of our office rooms. We reached out to HNI Consulting and they sent a technician named Courtney and she was simply amazing! Courtney explained WiFi in a way that we never understood. She did a survey of our current wireless coverage and explained how much equipment we would need in order to reach our demand. Soon after the equipment was installed and we haven’t had to revisit the issue at all. The experience was very stress free.”

Magdy Ghazaly

Illinois

Excellent Customer Service

“Amazing service. Thank you! Our company agreed to work with HNI Consulting for our business/networking needs. Their customer service from the start was superb. They gave us a consultation, explained everything in a way we can understand, gave us product suggestions, and installed the computer equipment extremely efficiently. HNI was able to consult the company on our security risk and offered ongoing support for our network as well.”

Danielle Honeywood

Illinois

Who We Are

We are a strategic IT advisory firm founded in 2010 to help organizations align technology with the goals that actually drive the business.

HNI was founded in 2010 on a single idea: that organizations should have IT leadership and engineering depth without building a large internal team. That has since grown into fractional CIO, CTO, and CISO services, network engineering, security work, and infrastructure assessments. Today we serve public sector agencies, enterprise clients, and growing businesses across Illinois, Phoenix, Atlanta, and nationwide.

Jame Christian

Founder & CEO

Patty Hoover

Director of Operations

Erica Fisher

Operations Manager

Waldo Gordon

Customer Service Specialist

Our Core Values

Strategic IT Advisory

Technology decisions compound over time. We help you set direction and think ahead, pairing strategic perspective with two decades of real engineering experience.

Impactful Engineering

Every engagement starts with what is actually happening in your environment, not what the specs say should be. We assess, design, and build from that real starting point.

Precision by Default

The work we do has real consequences for live operations. We build with care and deliver work that holds up under the conditions your environment actually runs under.

Built for Production

Recommendations that only work on paper do not help. Our solutions are designed for the conditions where they will actually run, not an idealized version of your environment.

Accountable by Nature

We stand behind our work. When something needs to be revisited, we say so before you have to ask. That directness is how long-term client relationships are built.

Our Certifications and Partners

The Experience Behind Every Engagement

HNI brings over 20 years of hands-on network engineering and more than 15 years of firewall and security experience across enterprise and public sector environments. Our work spans Cisco and Palo Alto environments, and we have supported complex networks where precision matters and getting it wrong is not an option. That depth is what backs every recommendation and every decision we bring to an engagement.

Industries We Support

HNI works with a focused set of markets where aligning IT with business strategy makes a direct difference in how organizations operate, how effectively they manage risk, and how confidently they move into what comes next. Reliable networks for government operations, Enterprise infrastructure built for performance, IT clarity for growing businesses, Security expertise for regulated environments. If your organization needs IT leadership, engineering expertise, or both, HNI brings the advisory depth and hands-on technical experience.

Have A Question?

We're here to help. Whether you need advice on your next IT project, or direct help in building a reliable, secure and undeniably useful IT environment for your business, we're the team you should talk to. Call (708) 847-5532 today or schedule a discovery conversation to talk through what your infrastructure actually needs.

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