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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

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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

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Insights, Perspective & Analysis

  • Be your own COP26.

    October 30, 2021 Hello again…I took some time off in my writing to do other things. Client projects, home projects, and a new venture to be announced shortly. It’s been good to, as Michaela Coel put it: “…do not be afraid to disappear. From it. From us. For a while. And see what comes to…

  • Epiphany: The Marketer and the CIO Should Be Friends

    Remember the movie “Working Girl”? I’m remembering the scene where Melanie Griffith’s character Tess tells Trask her train of thought that led to putting two very different companies together. TESS: See this — this is from the Wall Street Journal, just your basic article about how you were trying to expand into broadcasting, right…okay, now…

  • The Soul of (All) New Machines

    Remember the Tracy Kidder book, “The Soul of the New Machine“? Required reading in business school from almost the day it shipped, the author embedded with teams at Data General in Massachusetts, in their quest to build a new and better mini-computer (remember those?) in those in-between days between big iron mainframes and the eventual…