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Chapel Hill, NC, US

• Partnering with Leadership:Collaborating with CEOs and their leadership teams, we hone the essence of your business. Together, we drive the 'why' that underpins your operations, and from there, formulate the 'how' and.
• Fractional CTO / CIO / COO Services:Enjoy the benefits of strategic leadership without the full-time commitment. Whether you require fractional executive guidance, strategic direction, or a technical expert's.
• Product and Team Management:Ensure that your products meet market demands and that your teams are aligned for efficient and effective delivery. Harness the potential of every individual to contribute to the bigger.
• Process Flow Improvements:Streamline your business processes for optimal performance. By identifying bottlenecks and implementing effective strategies, I can help in enhancing efficiency and productivity.
• Agile Mentoring:Transition to Agile or simply refine your existing Agile practices. With a mentor by your side, embrace the Agile methodology to improve delivery speed, quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Keynote Speaker:As a Keynote Speaker, I bring an inspired message to your conference, association, leadership team, or company. However, I don't offer a one-size-fits-all blueprint or a step-by-step framework. Instead.

Houston, TX, US

• Teric Technology provides Fractional CTO and CIO services to small to medium sized businesses.
• The US branch of a large tractor manufacturing company ($600m+ annual rev) had a short timeline to deliver a 1-, 3-, and 5-year IT / product roadmap to corporate HQ. Through several key interviews and review of.
• Several businesses were lacking proper security measures, Disaster Recover / Business Continuity plans and IT policies and procedures. After managing the audit process, guidance was provided with priority.
• Solopreneur had a core idea for a product in the industrial hygiene space, but no product strategy or technical background. Through discussions of his business idea, desired direction, and review of initial.

Cary, North Carolina, US

• GiG CIO provides Fractional CTO/CIO services.
• Strategic Consulting for Business and Technology
• Agile Coaching
• Product Strategy
• Dev Team Management
• Cybersecurity

Washington, DC, US

• CU Student Choice is a premier Credit Union Service Organization working with 300+ Credit Unions to provide private student loans and refinancing options to students, with more than $2B Loans under management.
• The cost of external vendor platforms was high, so the decision was made to build the product internally. Helped lay out product roadmap and strategy and reviewed and recommended architectural changes. This led to.
• Existing Agile practices for software development were inefficient. Gave general agile training, implemented Scrum with a lean toward Kanban, and Flow Metrics. This produced valuable insights into areas of improvement.
• Inefficient and technically challenged Managed Service Provider (IT vendor) placed undue strain on the internal IT staff. Pulled in several MSP vendors via networking and led the vendor interview / selection process..
• With reduced IT resources, the company was not well prepared for the PEN Test and SOC 2 Audit. Pulling from experience, built out tracking, collection, and storage systems for required documents. Coordinated with.
• In-person collaboration meetings were expensive for the remote team. Helped implement VR Meetings to enhance collaboration and reduce monthly travel costs saving approximately $10K+ per month we had VR Meetings.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Technology Associates provides IT Managed Services and CIO consulting to various sized businesses.
• Consulted on the revitalization of inefficient and outdated IT infrastructures, implementing equipment upgrades, process improvements and IT policies that supported the increase in value of Technology Associates’.
• Identified outdated or lacking infrastructure, processes and procedures, disaster recovery and business continuity plan etc. during client onboarding and reviews. This client base consisted of 50+ small to medium-sized.
• During the on-set of COVID-19, many client companies needed to quickly shift to support remote work. Technology was put in place to allow these clients to continue to successfully run their businesses remotely.

Greensboro, NC, US

• Listingbook (Elm St. Tech) provides Lead generation, digital marketing, & client nurturing for real estate agents & brokers.
• Spearheaded and implemented overall vision and corporate direction for technology roadmap.
• Strategic contributor in scaling year-over-year run rate by 70% through new product development and managing integration of vendors, products and staff during multiple mergers and acquisitions.
• Championed refactoring of application on many fronts increasing speed of the application by over 50% and refactoring MS Bing Map API calls creating approximately $90K reduction in annual expenses.
• Led the design of two-way integration projects using various methods including RESTful API creation and consumption. Integrations included Credit Card processing, Mobile application, Salesforce, Facebook Ad.
• Reduced network / hardware footprint and expenses at colocation, through technology upgrades, by downsizing from seven (7) full racks (hardware) to two (2) racks.

Raleigh, NC, US

• CCIS provided custom software to the US Military, State and Local government, and commercial clients.
• Key contributor in scaling CCIS from startup to $10M run rate and from 7 people to 75+ in under 5 years.
• Successfully built award winning application performing as lead developer, business analyst, and integrator for application used by the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany, and the U.S. for input, tracking, and.
• Achieved successful launch of app as architect, product owner, and integrator for a web-based distribution management app, receiving honorable mention at 82nd ABD’s “warfighter” exercise.
• Analyzed and specified hardware and software for servers deployed in U.S., Germany, Afghanistan, and Iraq to support CCIS’ largest military client. Managed configuration, deployment, and maintenance of $1M+ of.