What I Do
Leading technology investments to unlock their full potential.
I seek companies that care deeply about their employees and products while promoting a growth mindset. I find great satisfaction when assisting teams with technology to achieve superior customer outcomes.
· I help busy leaders transform their desire for change into reality.
· I enjoy mapping their needs to proven solutions for success. Technology investments should help everyone accomplish more, faster.
· I strive to keep the organization's highest-value contributors focused on business goals, by removing barriers, aligning infrastructure to plans, reducing risks, and minimizing outside demands for their attention.
· My diverse expertise in technologies, methods, markets, business, and tools; and my willingness to undertake any role drive programs to success.
· My experience spans analyst to executive, including consultant, engineer, quality systems, customer solutions, marketing director, program director, product manager, tech ops director, chief technologist, and startup founder.
· My greatest value is how I readily curate the change required to achieve the business transformation -- not just the technology.
· I routinely achieve what would be difficult for existing resources alone.
I've been particularly effective when I function as an independent internal consulting organization.
DEFINITION & DELIVERY
• Defining infrastructure, systems, and services that prepare firms for growth.
• Crafting technology strategies that are market, timing, and scale-appropriate.
• Connecting financial, market, and product plans to current realities and priorities.
• Aligning limited technology budgets for the best impact on stated priorities.
• Finding scale-appropriate solutions for small budgets that still yield custom results.
• Reducing risk through careful realignment of systems to recoverable best practice platforms.
• Transforming ideas into strategies, into plans, into execution, into outcomes.
• Delivering transformational platform migrations with carefully curated change.
PLATFORMS
• Migrating in-house systems to best practice hosted services.
• Extending enterprise platforms with new capabilities and agility.
• Defining or migrating existing platforms to Amazon AWS.
• Migrating company web platforms to emerging standards and practices.
• Managing legacy Windows Server environments and application bases.
TEAMS
• Developing high-trust service teams that prioritize and thrill customers.
• Finding alternatives for the non-essential tasks of high-value employees.
• Creating product teams with the necessary capabilities and systems.
• Encouraging teams to continually challenge assumptions and clarify limits.
• Discovering greater process agility for getting products to market.
• Unifying disparate internal teams around company mission, culture, and values.
PRODUCTS
• Leading cross-functional teams to collectively manage product roadmaps and releases.
• Defining reliable and repeatable product release processes.
• Rightsizing production to demand and leading quality solution teams.
• Developing contract manufacturing partnerships and delivery channels.
• Leading product creation, iteration, and go-to-market initiatives.