Bridging the Gap Between Complex IT Infrastructure and Clear Business Strategy.
Senior IT consultant, change agent, and former print journalist bringing senior-level leadership and executive-ready clarity to enterprise technology transitions
Strategic Technology Leadership
Guiding organizations through critical transitions, system modernizations, and long-term strategic IT roadmaps
System Stabilization
Diagnosing technical debt, mitigating operational risk, and modernizing legacy network and cloud architecture
Boardroom-Ready Clarity
Translating complex data, engineering requirements, and technical risk into transparent, actionable insights for stakeholders
A Communicator’s Eye for Detail. An Engineer’s Mind for Architecture
Technology achieves its highest purpose when it empowers people. My training in communications and organizational behavior taught me to cut through noise, ask the right questions, and find the core narrative. Today, I use that exact framework to audit complex IT environments, stabilize infrastructure, and build transparent, boardroom-ready alignment across engineering and executive teams alike
Insights, Perspective & Analysis
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William Fosterr, 1950–2022
Yesterday I attended a remembrance service for William Fosterr, whom I got to know and appreciate during my days as the sole IT contractor (2004 — 2011) for the Mental Health Association of Tulsa, now known statewide as MHAOK. I got to know William initially as one of the Front Desk people at their old…
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Redundancy = Resiliency
Recently I learned that one of my former employers was hit by ransomware, locking out access to a file and SQL server. They are one of a couple of higher education sites in the same state system that’s been hit by attacks over the last year, in a period when higher education domains have been…
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Fear (of range anxiety) and Loathing in OKC
February 14, 2022 Amid the high price of used cars right now, we’ve been looking off and on for either my daughter’s first car or a car for me so she can take my Honda CR-V. At the same time, we’ve been thinking about gasoline costs and the costs to the planet, and do we…