Senior technology leadership, without the full-time cost
A Fractional CTO brings executive-level technology leadership to your organization on a part-time basis. You get a leader who attends meetings, owns outcomes, manages vendors, and builds your roadmap — at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
Who this is for
- ●Growing businesses where technology complexity has outpaced leadership capacity
- ●Organizations managing vendors or MSPs without clear direction or accountability
- ●Companies facing a significant technology transition: ERP, infrastructure modernization, M365 migration
- ●Leadership teams that want technology risk translated into business language they can act on
Who this is not for
- ●Break-fix support shoppers or lowest-bidder searches
- ●Environments where no one owns decisions or priorities
- ●Projects looking for speed at the expense of stability
Advisory & oversight
An ongoing advisory relationship. I attend key leadership meetings, review technology decisions, evaluate vendors, and give your team a senior technical voice without managing day-to-day operations.
- Technology roadmap
- IT investment guidance
- Vendor evaluation
- Risk translation
Embedded CTO leadership
I act as your part-time CTO. I own the technology roadmap, manage vendors and technical staff, attend leadership meetings, and report risk in plain language. Accountability, not just advice.
- Roadmap ownership
- Vendor & MSP management
- Staff direction
- Board communication
Scoped engagement
A defined-scope engagement with a clear start, deliverables, and finish. Assessments, technology transition leadership, ERP implementation oversight, or a second opinion before a major decision.
- Technology assessment
- ERP & systems leadership
- Transition planning
- Pre-investment review
Where AI belongs, and where it does not
Most companies are told to adopt AI and never told where it should never touch. I map both, then build only the parts that earn their place. AI is applied last, after infrastructure and ERP direction are owned.
The AI opportunity workshop
A half-day working session with your leadership team. I teach the concepts, your team maps its own pain, and the opportunities surface from the people who do the work. Priced as a deliverable.
The AI opportunity roadmap
Intelligence gathering under NDA, an AI version of your org chart, and a sequenced 90-day plan: derisk, unclog, scale. You get one page you can hold the work against.
Automation and copilots
Work offloaded to automation, and AI augmentation for the experts who should stay in charge of the decision. Built in phases, with the early wins chosen to land fast and visibly.
An operating system you own
Agents and workflows that run on infrastructure you own, with local models so company data never has to leave the building. The code belongs to you, and it keeps working.
Where my infrastructure depth becomes your advantage
Most Fractional CTOs come from software or product backgrounds. My depth is infrastructure and operations — which is where most SMB technology risk actually lives.
Virtualization and storage
Fragile single-host environments replaced with resilient, documented platforms. VMware or Proxmox, storage design, and backup planned together so recovery is not an afterthought.
Microsoft 365 and Entra identity
Tenant and identity architecture that reduces friction and support noise. Security baselines that are practical, enforceable, and matched to how your users actually work.
Networking and firewalls
Networks that contain problems instead of spreading them. Firewall policy, VPN access, and segmentation that improve reliability without making users miserable.
Backup and disaster recovery
Backup is only real after a restore test. Documented recovery runbooks, scheduled test restores, and a team that knows what to do when it matters.
How engagements work
1. Discovery call
We talk for 30 minutes about where you are, where you want to be, and what’s blocking you. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll say so and point you somewhere better.
2. Assessment and plan
A focused look at your environment, risks, and priorities. You get a clear picture of what needs to happen, in what order, and what it will cost — before any commitment.
3. Ongoing leadership or delivery
Depending on what you need: ongoing embedded leadership, a scoped project, or periodic advisory check-ins. The goal is calm, predictable technology operations — not permanent heroics.