FRACTIONAL CTO ·
ST. LOUIS + REMOTE
Your company needs a CTO,
not another full-time hire.
I help companies with 5 to 30 engineers get the technology leadership they need without adding another full-time executive. As a fractional CTO and technology consultant based in St. Louis, I work directly with founders, business leaders, and engineering teams to connect technical decisions with business priorities.
I bring more than 30 years of experience building software, leading engineering teams, and designing enterprise architecture across healthcare, fintech, insurance, logistics, and other regulated industries.
My work spans technology strategy, software architecture, product direction, technical due diligence, and modernization on Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms.
Two weeks. Written findings.
Fixed cost. No obligation.
Why companies call me
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01
No technical leader
The person deciding your architecture has little time between sales calls. Decisions get deferred, then made twice.
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02
Software ships slowly
You have good developers, however you are lacking process. No development roadmap anyone in the room actually believes in.
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03
Investors and compliance
You need to perform due diligence, define a security posture, or scale your software beyond the next client.
Where I have been accountable
Increasing scope, in industries where a wrong architecture decision is a regulatory problem rather than a refactor.
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75+
developers hired - both local and off-shore
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40
developers led across four continents
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7
simultaneous teams
- Owning product and technical direction and all backlogs -
3
regulatory frameworks - SOX, GDPR, HIPAA
Platform Architect/ Owner
Global Fintech
Architected and owned shared services platform, directing both product strategy and technical execution across seven development teams.
Engineering Manager
Education Startup
Led cross-functional engineering teams responsible for shared services, application modernization, and critical business systems.
Technical Architect
Nationwide Healthcare Provider
Directed architecture and development for enterprise clinical, patient billing, and employee timekeeping systems, including enhancements supporting acquisitions and changing regulations.
Director of IT
Human Resources Startup
Served on the management team with responsibility for all information technology, including vendors, contracts, infrastructure, security, and software development.
Now
Your engineering org
Your needs, on an agreed schedule. Start with the assessment.
How I work with your organization
- Availability
- Plans start at 4 days per month. Days are scheduled in advance, on a calendar your team can see.
- Location
- Greater St. Louis Area. Remote by default, on-site when the task calls for a room.
- Shape
- Monthly engagement, three-month commitment. I lead your engineers; I don’t replace them.
- Starting
- Every engagement opens with the two-week assessment. No exceptions.
Engagements start at four days a month.
The Base engagement is 4 days per month, a day is up to 8 hours of delivered or billed work. Allotments are monthly, so a heavy week borrows from a light one.
Base engagement
$8,000 / month
Standing time with your engineers, ownership of the plan, and a technical voice in the decisions that matter - product roadmap, hiring, architecture, the investor conversations.
Above four days there is no packaged menu. The shape follows the work rather than a package, so anything beyond the base is scoped with you.
The base begins with a three-month commitment and continues month to month after that. Rates above the base are confirmed in writing before any work begins.
Before either of us commits.
Start with a fixed-fee technical assessment. You get a written answer about your engineering organization whether or not we work together afterward.
$5,000 Fixed fee
Credited toward your first month if we continue.
- Up to five interviews - founders, business leaders, engineers, whoever owns the pain
- One codebase and one cloud environment, reviewed in depth
- Written findings document - risks, sequence, what to do first
- Live readout with you and your team, questions included
Tell me what’s happening.
I answer personally, usually the same day. If I’m not the right fit I’ll say so, and where I’d point you instead.