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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Hanging on the Telephone
It’s a fact: you run a business, you need a phone. And once you grow to the point where it’s more than just you, you need a phone system. It’s no secret that all the original telcos (Ma Bell and all the Baby Bells) have largely merged together again, and are seeking to get out…
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Don’t tell the parents…
Counting backward, I realized that I’ve been using my tech skills to support nonprofits off and on for the last 15 years. That’s this time around * Since separating from the Tulsa Area United Way I’ve been doing some consulting and chatting with nonprofits in Tulsa — some who are partner nonprofits and some who…
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Hiding in Plain Sight
A colleague and I were chatting (okay…texting) this week about recruitment issues, and I was reminded of one of our challenges back in the Dot Com Era in Seattle. I was Director of IT during the mid-to-late 90s at a couple of higher ed institutions in the Pacific Northwest, and it was at this time…