Technology leadership · Working globally from Florida
Twenty-five years leading engineering, data, and AI organizations as a CTO and VP of Technology. I work alongside your team to set the strategy, make the hard calls, and ship the work: AI, data platforms, and modernization.
The principal
I've never stopped building. Over twenty-five years I've grown small teams into global, multi-division technology organizations, stood up product orgs, modernized platforms and codebases, and taken AI from pilot to production, in companies large and small. I'm as comfortable in the boardroom as in an architecture review.
When you hire me, you work with me, start to finish.
More about me →The most expensive gap in technology sits between the plan and the working system. Good strategies stall in handoffs; good builds drift without direction. And as building gets technically easier every year, the harder question is what to build at all: for which customer, and to what end. This practice exists to hold both ends: the person who helps set the direction stays accountable for shipping it.
What I take on
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A senior technology executive in your corner. Roadmaps, architecture decisions, technical due diligence, org design and the right hires, vendor cleanup, and the judgment to know what to build before a line of code is written. When you need to scale, I help stand up global delivery teams across Europe, Central and South America, the Philippines, and India.
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From "should we?" to working systems in production. An honest read on where AI genuinely pays off in your business, then the build: agents, automation, and retrieval wired into the tools your team already uses.
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Analytics ecosystems, data engineering, and the decision infrastructure underneath them, from years running data organizations at scale, including where they go sideways.
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The actual build: platforms, modernization, web, and mobile, delivered through EmbarkDev, our custom development and delivery studio. The strategy doesn't stop at a slide deck; it ships.
Proof
Weeks to days
An AI-assisted development process rebuilt a global media company's CMS and publishing workflow, dropping build and editorial cycles from weeks to days and page loads worldwide from 6-8 seconds to under one.
Small teams to global divisions
More than once: a handful of engineers grown into a globally distributed organization spanning multiple divisions, on a modern data and cloud platform built to run it.
90% fewer ad hoc reports
Self-service analytics that gave a data team its time back for strategic work instead of one-off pulls.
99.99% uptime
An insurance SaaS platform (policy, claims, portals, APIs) run with security and compliance owned at the executive level.
From the last decade. I'll walk you through the specifics on a call.
How engagements work
A standing monthly engagement. Your technology executive, owning the roadmap, the architecture, the team, and the hard calls.
Best for companies that need ongoing senior leadership.
Focused engagements with a defined question: technical due diligence, an AI or data strategy, an architecture review, a hiring plan.
Best for a decision you need to get right once.
The leadership and the build in one engagement: I set the roadmap, and EmbarkDev ships it.
Best when you need it decided and built.
The practice carries a small number of engagements at a time.
Who this is for
You're growing, and technology decisions are piling up faster than they're getting made. You need senior judgment now, not after a six-month search.
Due diligence on a target, an interim leader after a transition, a modernization that has to hit a hold-period timeline, or an AI initiative that has to deliver.
A legacy platform nobody wants to touch, a stalled AI project, a data team that can't ship an insight. You need someone who has untangled this before.
Questions
A fractional CTO gives you a senior technology executive on a part-time basis: technology strategy, architecture decisions, team leadership, vendor management, and accountability for what ships. How much you need varies from company to company.
Three common triggers: a founder-led company whose technology decisions have outgrown the team, a PE firm that needs diligence on a target or an operating leader inside a portfolio company, and a mid-market company with a platform, data, or AI initiative that has stalled.
It depends on what you need: a standing monthly arrangement for ongoing leadership, or a focused advisory engagement for a single decision. Book a call and I'll give you a straight answer for your situation.
For the right engagement, yes. Some situations call for a deeper seat for a season: an interim CTO through a transition or a sale, or an embedded technology leader through a replatform.
Scope, mostly. Advisory engagements usually end at the recommendation, and sometimes that's all you need. This practice can also carry the recommendation through delivery, with the build shipped through EmbarkDev, so one person stays accountable from the decision to the working system.
No. I'm based in Sarasota, Florida, with current engagements across the US and Europe. Some are fully remote; others include regular time on site, and I travel when the work calls for it.