Senior IT. Modern AI. Built for what's next.
Fractional IT leadership and AI strategy advisory for small and growing companies. Public company discipline. Startup speed. Vendor neutral judgment from someone still doing the work every day.
Senior IT executive,
hands on with the AI shift.
Two decades of senior IT leadership across regulated industries. Ten years as Vice President of IT and ten years as IT Director, building and running technology organizations through audits, acquisitions, and rapid growth. Graduate of the Chief Technology Officer Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
I currently lead IT service operations, security, and strategic initiatives at a publicly traded clinical stage biotechnology company. My remit covers cybersecurity, SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, vendor management, and the full IT employee experience.
I serve on the company's AI steering committee, where I work on AI governance and policy, Copilot and assistant rollouts, retrieval augmented generation, and LLM vendor evaluation across Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity.
Outside the day job I advise small and growing companies that need senior IT judgment without senior IT overhead. The brief is simple. Bring the discipline of a public company IT organization to teams moving at startup speed.
Four pillars. One operating model.
Engagements are scoped against the four areas below. Most clients start with one and grow into the others as trust compounds.
AI Strategy and Governance
From policy to production. Governance frameworks, LLM vendor evaluation, Copilot and assistant rollouts, retrieval augmented generation, and SOC 2 considerations for AI workloads. Vendor neutral, security first.
- AI policy and acceptable use
- LLM vendor selection
- RAG and knowledge bases
- Data residency and privacy
Microsoft 365 and Automation
Get more from the stack you already pay for. M365 and Copilot deployment, SharePoint architecture, Teams governance, Exchange Online hardening, and workflow automation that removes friction from daily operations.
- Copilot rollout planning
- SharePoint and Teams design
- Power Platform automation
- Identity and licensing
IT Leadership Advisory
Fractional CIO and IT Director services. Org design, scaling support operations from business hours to 24/7, budget planning, vendor negotiation, and roadmap development for teams without a senior IT leader in seat.
- Fractional CIO engagements
- IT org and staffing models
- Budget and vendor strategy
- Board ready reporting
IT Operations Excellence and Resilience
Service operations that scale. ITIL aligned processes, security reviews, SOC 2 Type 2 readiness, business continuity, and the operational discipline that keeps a growing company audit ready and resilient.
- SOC 2 Type 2 readiness
- Incident and change process
- Support tier design
- BCP and DR planning
Tools, platforms, and practitioner depth.
An active practitioner, not a retired advisor. These are the systems I work in every week.
How engagements actually run.
No bloated decks. No discovery for the sake of discovery. Clear deliverables on a clear cadence.
A short discovery, usually two to three working sessions, to map current state, constraints, and the outcome you actually need. No theater.
A policy. A vendor short list. A pilot plan. A rollout playbook. Whatever the engagement calls for, you get something you can act on.
The goal is durable capability inside your team, not dependency on an outside advisor. Documentation, training, and a clean handoff are part of every brief.
Most engagements run four to eight weeks and are scoped as a fixed fee project rather than an open ended retainer. A short discovery call is enough to tell within a week whether it is a fit.
Built the way I'd tell a client to build it.
No agency, no CMS, no server to patch. This page is a working example of the discipline behind the advisory, not just a claim about it.
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Where things stand, in plain terms.
A working view of the AI and IT tools in active use or evaluation. Updated as positions change, not written once and left to go stale.
Adopt
Trial
Assess
Hold
These are directional positions reflecting current practice, not a formal vendor scorecard. They shift as tools, terms, and internal evaluations change.
What automation could be worth to your team.
Adjust the numbers to roughly match your environment. This is a starting point for a conversation, not a budget commitment.
Estimates assume linear savings from deflected tickets and do not account for implementation time, licensing cost, or change management effort. Treat this as a directional starting point for a scoping conversation, not a guaranteed return.
Ask the assistant.
A live Claude Sonnet 5 call, grounded only in what's on this page, running behind a rate-limited edge function. Not a demo, the real thing, with real guardrails.
Answers are generated live and can occasionally be wrong. For anything you're relying on, confirm it on a call. This runs behind a per-visitor daily limit and a hard monthly spend cap, so it may say it's unavailable if either is reached.
Common questions.
Aren't you already working full time? How does this fit?
Yes. This practice runs alongside a full time senior IT role at a public biotech, by design. It keeps my judgment current and vendor neutral, since I am living the same tradeoffs my clients face. Engagements are scoped narrowly, a policy, a vendor evaluation, a rollout plan, and run on evenings and weekends, so there is no ambiguity about availability once we agree on scope.
What does an engagement typically cost?
Most engagements run four to eight weeks and are priced as a fixed fee scoped to a specific deliverable, not an hourly or open ended retainer. Exact pricing depends on scope, and the first conversation is free, so we can figure out together whether it is a fit before any commitment.
Who is this for?
Small and growing companies that need senior IT or AI governance judgment but are not ready for a full time hire in that seat. Common starting points are an AI policy, an LLM vendor evaluation, or a Microsoft 365 and Copilot rollout plan.
Executive Briefings
Weekly strategic perspectives on enterprise AI, cloud architecture, and pragmatic tech governance.
Let's see if there's a fit.
A short note about your company, your stage, and what you're trying to solve is enough to get started. First conversation is on me.