I've spent 25 years helping organizations understand what they actually have before deciding what they need. That usually means getting into the details of legacy systems, data architectures, and business processes that have been running long enough to accumulate wisdom nobody documented.
I work with financial services, higher education, and enterprise organizations navigating complex technology decisions — migrations, modernizations, and the strategic planning that should precede both.
Services
Strategic Technology Planning
Not every technology decision needs to be made right now, and not every problem requires a new platform. I work with leadership teams to distinguish between decisions that are urgent and decisions that are merely uncomfortable, and to build technology strategies that account for what the organization actually needs rather than what the market is selling.
Data Architecture & Migration
Data migrations fail when they're treated as a technical exercise. They're actually organizational archaeology. I help teams understand their data landscape — what exists, why it's structured the way it is, what the dependencies are — before making decisions about where it needs to go. The goal is a migration that doesn't spend two years relearning lessons the old system already knew.
Legacy System Assessment
Before you replace a system, you need to understand what it actually does — not what the documentation says it does. I extract the institutional knowledge embedded in long-running systems: the business rules nobody documented, the edge cases that only surface in Q4, the silent corrections that mask upstream problems. You get a map of your operational reality, often for the first time.
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I'm available for consulting engagements — assessments, migrations, strategic planning, or the conversation that helps you figure out which one you need first.
Based in Ohio