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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Walking Backward Through the Trail of Tears
June 17, 2026 When I first began researching my Cherokee ancestry, I started where many people do: Ancestry.com. It’s a tempting place to begin — you can plug in fragments, and suddenly branches appear, often because someone else has already walked that path and left their notes behind. Some of the trees are beautiful, stretching…
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Why the CIO Role Still Breaks Before It Leads
June 3, 2026 I was talking with a friend recently, and the topic came up that a mutual CIO colleague had recently tendered his resignation. It’s for all the reasons you’d suspect, and many I’ve talked about before. Probably too often. The old joke about the title CIO meaning “Career Is Over” ain’t far removed,…
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The Wizard of the Kremlin
May 19, 2026 Busy weekend! We said goodbye to a visiting friend from Oklahoma on Friday, and by Sunday we were at the Detroit Masonic Temple for “Candlelight: 90s Hip-Hop on Strings,” which was wonderfully fun and intimate in the smaller auditorium. The musicians were the Kalkaska String Quartet, based here in Michigan. Joe Jackson…