Application systems and agentic AI. I have done both layers, and I come inside to own delivery. You keep what we build. The operation stays up.
Everyone owns their piece. Vendors own the product map. SIs own the delivery map for their mandate. The company rarely owns the operating map above them. Systems, six process constellations, and people on a company-owned data core. I have spent 30 years doing exactly that: keeping the operation up while the stack moves.
The company must know what is running, control what it can reach and do, keep an accountable person in command, and prove what happened. Governance and risk are operating questions now. Few companies have a path they can own.
A capital asset that protects and expands Operating Income, not another expense line. Operating Income is the heart and soul of enterprise health: real operating cash flow and gross margin defense, not EBITDA abstractions. Keep-running lives on the application layer. The agentic layer is how the new arrival actually runs.
Tools, platforms, and AI models change with every wave. I put the power, ownership, and judgment back into the company.
I have done both layers, and I come inside to own delivery under the right mandate. The application layer is earned ground: more than 50 implementations and 15 full transformations taken through production. The agentic layer is live work right now: Enterprise-Agentics in production, with guardrails and an operating path the company owns. This is not shadow work on a laptop. The insurance is earned judgment on the first layer and live practice on the second.
Every square already has a vendor. The seams are where it fails. I sit there while the operation stays up.
Most recent: CIO, Sierra Nevada Brewing (~$420M). Full member of the executive leadership team. Led a $15M enterprise transformation built on a company-owned data core, rebuilt the IS function, and put agentic AI into production.
Earlier: CEO/CTO, Timberline. Scaled $250K to $130M across US and China. Operating systems that had to hold in the field.
Dock to the boardroom. Full-time or embedded, the shape follows the mandate.
30 years · 50+ implementations · 15 full transformations at scale · $100M–$1B operators · agentic AI in production.
No deck. No proposal theater. Bring the real situation: the legacy stack, the stalled modernization, the keep-running constraint. I'll walk you through exactly how I'd own it. Permanent or fractional. The ownership standard does not change.
