Technology advisor for owner-run businesses

A senior technology leader on your side of the table.

Part-time help with technology decisions, AI, and software projects for businesses that don't have a CTO. I've spent 25 years leading product, innovation, and engineering teams for Google, Mattel, Hasbro, Pentair, and more than a dozen growing companies.

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Experience with

  • Distributors
  • Manufacturers
  • Home services
  • Logistics
  • Medical and dental practices
  • Agencies
  • Law firms

Sound familiar?

Your business runs on technology, but you don't have the expertise you need on staff.

What I help with

Three kinds of help, from one person who knows your options.

Technology decisions

The technical voice in the room when you plan, buy, or fix something.

  • A simple technology plan and budget for the year ahead
  • Software selection, vendor quotes, and contract review before you sign
  • Security and data basics your insurer and clients will ask about
  • Straight answers in plain language at leadership meetings

AI strategy and implementation

Find where AI saves real time, then put it to work safely.

  • Pick the few tasks where AI pays off, and skip the hype
  • Set up AI tools for your team with sensible rules on data and privacy
  • Build a company knowledge base so AI answers from your own documents, with each person seeing only what they should
  • Train your staff and keep a person reviewing the work that matters

Software integration and development

Get the systems you already have working together, and build only what's missing.

  • Connect your accounting, sales, scheduling, and inventory systems so information flows on its own
  • Replace manual exports, re-typing, and spreadsheet workarounds with automated hand-offs
  • Design and build custom tools, customer portals, or add-ons when nothing off the shelf fits
  • Hire, manage, and hold developers or agencies to their promises
  • Take over stalled projects and get them working again

I don't resell software, hardware, or IT services. My only job is to help you make the right call, and then help you carry it out.

Independent
No product to push and no commission on what you buy.
Senior
Decades of leading teams and platforms, not a junior account rep.
Hands-on
We agree on a direction together, then I do the work. Setting things up, fixing what's broken, and seeing each task through to done.

How it works

Start small. Keep going only if it's working.

  1. 1

    A first conversation

    A short call or coffee about what's working, what isn't, and what's keeping you up at night. No obligation.

  2. 2

    Agree on a focus and get started

    We pick the one or two things that matter most right now, and I get to work on them. No long proposals or waiting weeks for a report.

  3. 3

    Keep going as needed

    As one task wraps up, we move to the next. I become your go-to technology person, with more or less help as your needs change.

Experience

25 years building products, teams, and leading innovation.

$30M+in digital product and technology work delivered
8+startups designed and launched
2companies set up with an “AI Brain”
300+employees and vendors managed

Clients and brands

Google Creative Labs · Mattel / American Girl · Hasbro · Pentair · Fiskars · Wagner · SC Johnson · Russ Berrie

Also

Author of 101 Killer Startup Mistakes and Their Solutions, creator of the Sovereign Architecture™ framework for modular software, and Business Mentor at MassChallenge.

Book a conversation

Tell me what's going on. Pick a time that works for you.

A 30-minute video call to talk through what's working, what isn't, and where you're stuck. No prep needed and no obligation.

Choose a time on the calendar, and you'll get a confirmation with the meeting link right away.

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