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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Boozhoo from Anishinaabe-Aki
“One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.” – Arthur C. Clarke Translation: Greetings from the Land of the Anishinaabe, who are comprised of the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Odawa (Ottawa),…
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The Sound of What Endures
February 23, 2026 Winter in Michigan has a way of celebrating itself, especially when the Olympics are on and every other athlete seems to have trained within an hour of your house. But it wasn’t the medal count that stopped me in my tracks—it was a Starbucks ad. One musical choice, and suddenly I wasn’t…
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The Aldo Leopold of 22nd Place
January 18, 2026 After a quarter-century (!) we recently sold our home in Tulsa. In 2000, we had just returned to Tulsa from West Seattle, bringing a mess of plants and bulbs. Some things survived (rosemary, oriental “stargazer” lilies) and some things didn’t (chocolate cosmos). Other things we bought over the years (a 20-year-old Meyer…