Joe Golemo was born and raised in Chicago, Il. His first published work was a serialized story of an action hero in the Holy Cross High School newsletter called The Crusader. After five-plus years of writing, editing, and gnashing of teeth, his first murder mystery, Design Flaws, which is set in the Twin Cities, was published by Level Best Books in September of 2023. The next two books in the series are scheduled for September 2024 and September 2025.
When he’s not working on his next murder mystery, Joe Golemo is a Partner at Impact Group, Inc., an IT Consulting firm headquartered in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. He holds a Chemical Engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he fell in love with all things technical, and an MBA in Finance and Strategic Planning from the University of Minnesota. Joe has a lovely wife of over 30 years, two adult children, and a crazy dog named Marco.
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.