SERVICES

When your business is looking to fill a position as critical as the CTO, it’s imperative that you find the right person.

Whether it’s for a short-term engagement during a transition period or to fill a longer-term need, I bring the know-how and the drive to build products, processes, and teams that succeed.

WHAT I DO

Here’s an overview of the jobs I perform and the value I provide to the businesses I work with.

Leadership During Organization Transitions

  • Backfill the CTO role when there’s personnel turnover, keeping tech initiatives and product development on track

  • Implement turnaround and change management frameworks as needed

  • Short-term or longer-term engagements based on client needs

Support for Non-Technical CEOs 

  • Align business requirements to tech strategy and product roadmap 

  • Evaluate technology choices, development team, and processes 

  • Coach C-suite in working effectively with product and engineering teams 

  • Function as a sounding board for product innovation, operational improvements, potential partnerships, and more 

Product Roadmap and Architecture Assessment 

  • Provide input on technology decisions 

  • Audit and advise on Product Roadmap 

  • Assess and align engineering and product strategies/processes 

  • Provide due diligence/assessments for vendor and tech partnerships 

Best Practices for Building Agile Teams and Healthy Culture  

  • Act as a steward, ensuring that the goals of frameworks such as Agile or Lean are being met 

  • Build agile teams that are empowered to do their best work

  • Reduce redundancy and create capacity by reconfiguring resource allocation

  • Advise on offshoring, near-shoring, and remote-team management 

  • Establish or revamp interview and hiring processes 

  • Train engineering team on best interviewing practices 

  • Interview potential full-time CTO candidates

Tech Team Leadership Development 

  • Provide customized coaching for leaders on the engineering and product teams 

  • Build “servant-leader” competencies for employee and team well-being 

  • Assess engineers for leadership potential 

  • Up-level existing managers to move into Director and VP roles 

Development Process Expertise 

  • Establish baseline software development process 

  • Assess and refine existing software development process 

Build a Sound, Scalable Organization 

  • Develop strategies to attract and retain top talent 

  • Provide organizational design 

  • Implement Agile, Lean, Change Management and other frameworks as needed 

  • Advise on processes and structures for scaling up capacity and production

FAQ

Why hire an interim CTO?

Hiring the right CTO is an investment that will pay dividends. That person should be able to provide leadership on tech strategy, build a heathy organization, deliver great products, and drive growth.

When you hire an interim CTO, you get critical tech expertise when you need it for as long as you need it, filling a key position that should never be vacant.

What should you look for in a cto? 

Proven experience. The degree of a CTO’s competence can make or break a business, and competence is earned through experience. It’s imperative that your CTO have a track record of success to draw from, someone with a proven ability to think strategically and make critical decisions that lead to desired outcomes.

Both tech and business expertise. Having a CTO who is both an innovative technologist and a savvy business person gives any business an edge. As both a CEO and a CTO, I understand how to integrate tech solutions that support the larger business objectives.

Ethics and integrity. Businesses are paying more attention than ever before to the kind of leaders they want in the C-Suite, the kind of corporate culture they want to build, and the impact that their products have on people’s lives. You want a CTO that will uphold the values of your organization, who brings an ethical approach to their work.

Who do you work with?

I’ve worked with businesses at various stages of growth and maturity across multiple industries to develop digital products and services for both B2B and D2C. My client roster includes healthcare, fintech, retail, education, and more.

I’m currently the CTO of Mediflix, a healthcare startup that’s transforming the way consumers access medical information so that everyone, everywhere can access high-quality advice from top professionals.

What’s your availability?

I am open to new opportunities, so if you’d like to explore how I might help your business, let’s talk.