Joe Golemo was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. His first published work was a serialized story about an action hero in The Crusader, the Holy Cross High School newsletter. After more than seven years of writing, editing, and struggling, his debut murder mystery, *Design Flaws*, set in the Twin Cities, was published by Level Best Books in September 2023. The second book in the Grayson Dyle Mystery series, *Ruby Red Flaws*, was published in February 2025. The third, *Character Flaws*, is scheduled for publication in mid-2026.
When he’s not working on his next murder mystery, Joe is a Partner at a Management and IT Consulting firm. Originally from Chicago, he holds a Chemical Engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. After college, he moved to Minnesota to work for IBM and fell in love with the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Joe has been happily married for over 34 years and has two adult children and a crazy dog named Bodhi.
Joe’s Early Days
Joe started his illustrious working career as an Ice Cream Wrangler at a Baskin Robins on the north side of Chicago, IL. From there, it was a meteoric rise to Bottle Room Attendant processing inbound returns at a Jewel Food Store, followed by a stint as a Shopping Cart Attendant in the parking lot. He took a break from the grocery industry to work in the Quality Assurance lab of the B. Heller Spice company, where he performed competitive analysis by reverse engineering spice samples of food products such as Italian sausage and pizza sauce (he kids you not). The grocery industry called him back, and he returned to Jewel as a Bagger, Checker, and eventually Floor Captain.
Today, Joe has over 30 years of IT Industry experience working for companies that include Impact Group, IBM, Trexin, BORN, and is.com. He has helped three IT consulting firms make the Fortune 5000 fastest-growing companies list, helped four IT consulting services firms become acquired, successfully started and turned around failing branch offices, started multiple new practice areas, and managed most of these companies’ strategic planning and business growth.