FRACTIONAL CTO / CIO + EXECUTIVE COACH
Get the right strategy in place and make it happen. I help organizations transform through AI and help people grow the judgment, confidence, and leadership to shape what comes next.
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Organizations served
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WHEN TO BRING IN SUPPORT
Growth is adding systems, people, and complexity. A major technology decision feels too big. A software project has stalled, or confidence in your team or vendors has slipped.
You may also be asking where AI belongs, how to adopt it responsibly, or how to turn the time it saves into useful work.
I help you understand what's happening, agree on what matters, and bring the people and resources together to move forward.
AI TRANSFORMATION + HUMAN TRANSFORMATION
My work connects two kinds of growth: changing how work gets done, and helping people become more self-aware, confident, and capable of leading what comes next.
AI SUPPORTS HUMAN GROWTH
AI can take on repetitive work, make information easier to use, and help people explore ideas. That opens room for deeper learning, better conversations, creative work, and stronger relationships.
HUMAN GROWTH SHAPES AI
People bring purpose, judgment, and care to those possibilities. As leaders and teams build confidence, trust, and adaptability, they can choose better uses for AI, question its outputs, and improve how it serves the business.
The aim is a reinforcing cycle: AI opens new possibilities for people; their growth reveals better ways to use AI. We look for progress in both business results and human contribution.
THREE WAYS TO MOVE FORWARD
Make technology work for your business, turn AI into business value, or develop stronger leaders. We shape the engagement around the outcomes you need.I focus on companies with $20M–$200M in annual revenue.
When to call: Growth has outpaced your systems, or you've lost confidence in technology delivery.
Get stalled projects moving, choose the right systems, and put the right technology team and vendors in place as your business grows.
When to call: You need an AI roadmap, or AI is saving time and you want that capacity to count.
Choose where AI can improve products and workflows, put it into practice, and help your team turn new capabilities into better decisions and measurable business value.
When to call: Your next stage of growth asks more of you or the leaders already on your team.
Through executive coaching, develop greater self-awareness, stronger relationships, and the confidence and judgment to lead through complexity and change.
THE 4D PROCESS
Develop the technology and the people together, with a shared roadmap across systems, AI, and leadership. For fractional engagements, I typically target completing discovery and agreeing on the roadmap in the first month.
Listen to leaders, teams, and relevant partners. What's working? What's frustrating? What needs to change for the next year to feel successful?
Synthesize the findings into a clear picture of the challenges, opportunities, and recommended initiatives.
Work with your leadership team to agree on priorities, sequence, and resources. Create a roadmap you can act on together.
Guide execution, bring in the right expertise, and support your leaders. Review progress regularly and adapt as priorities change.
CLIENT STORIES
Three examples of how technology leadership and people development come together in my work.
ECOMMERCE & LOGISTICS
A $400M business was left without clear technology leadership after an abrupt engineering leader departure.
Within six months, I worked with executives to establish technology and AI roadmaps, assemble a development team, hire an IT manager, and bring in security, UX, and QA partners.
What changed: The business had a team, a shared direction, and stronger IT leadership to support its growth.
ALARM & SECURITY SERVICES
An established security company needed help after its software developer abandoned a project.
I helped bring the platform back to life, then worked with a nearshore development team and internal operations to build and launch a customer portal integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and legacy systems.
What changed: The business regained a working platform and launched a customer portal integrated with its existing systems.
REAL ESTATE SERVICES
A long-serving technology director at a business acquiring multiple service companies was struggling to contribute as a trusted executive.
Through weekly coaching for about a year, I helped him develop a business perspective and strengthen his leadership contribution.
What changed: The business gained a more strategic technology leader who could help it reach its next stage.
AI + HUMAN TRANSFORMATION IN PRACTICE
When routine work takes less time, what should people do with the capacity they gain?
This program brings AI adoption, strengths-informed coaching, and organizational development into one engagement. We identify where AI can improve work, help people redirect recovered time toward work that matters, and develop the confidence and judgment to use new capabilities well.
For example, AI might help prepare a customer meeting; coaching helps the person ask better questions, listen more deeply, and act on what they learn. Those insights can then improve the next AI-supported workflow.
The aim: clearer contribution, stronger engagement, and measurable business value. We agree on how to assess progress with the people responsible for the work.
Time saved is the beginning.
Meaningful contribution is the goal.
One engagement option within the broader practice. Pilot scope and timing are agreed around your team's needs.
Discuss the programUnderstand your business priorities and how work is actually performed.
Identify where AI can safely reduce effort or improve quality, with clear human review.
Explore each person's AI readiness, natural strengths, contribution interests, and support needs.
Agree how recovered capacity can support higher-value work, learning, quality, and sustainability.
Test selected workflows, coach through the transition, and establish routines for learning, feedback, and responsible AI use.
MEASURE MORE THAN SPEED
YOUR PARTNER IN THE WORK
Professional Certified Coach
PCC
AI transformation.
Human transformation.
One connected practice.
My career took me from building technology infrastructure across six Asia-Pacific countries to earning an MBA at Thunderbird and building an Inc. 5000 technology advisory firm. The business grew across staffing, software development, and fractional CTO/CIO services.
The turning point came when a fractional client asked me to spend half my time coaching its technology leader. Watching him develop his business perspective and executive contribution showed me how much I enjoyed helping people grow.
That experience led me to train at UC Berkeley's Executive Coaching Institute. Over the following decade, I built a coaching practice alongside my technology work.
Today, I see AI transformation and human transformation as mutually reinforcing. AI can change how work gets done and open new possibilities. People need the self-awareness, judgment, and confidence to choose what matters and act on it. Their growth, in turn, helps them use technology with greater purpose. Bringing those two transformations together is the focus of my work.
I serve as a fractional CTO/CIO, coach executives through the Center for Creative Leadership, and facilitate a technology leaders' peer group at REF. I am an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), with more than 10 years of coaching experience.
My technology work spans more than 50 organizations, from growing startups to regulated, multisite healthcare businesses. I have helped dozens of clients build and rescue compliant, multimillion-dollar customer-facing software. I also co-founded and serve as CTO of an addiction-treatment EMR business, bringing a builder's and entrepreneur's perspective to the work.
Building a technology staffing business taught me how to assemble teams across contract, direct hire, and executive search. I draw on an extensive local and global network across IT, software engineering, ERP, security, UX, and QA, combining internal, contract, onshore, nearshore, and offshore resources as the work requires.
My enterprise delivery and transformation experience is supported by more than 15 years of prior PMP certification. I bring structure to the work while helping the leaders and teams doing it develop their own capability.
Connect with Scott on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)STARTING THE CONVERSATION
Growing in self-awareness, confidence, judgment, and the ability to relate to and lead others. Coaching creates space to question assumptions, strengthen relationships, and make more intentional choices. That work has value on its own and also helps people navigate the changes AI brings.
No. Start with the challenge that matters most. An engagement can focus on technology leadership, AI adoption, or executive coaching, with organizational development and change support woven in where useful.
For fractional engagements, I typically target discovery interviews, a synthesis of the findings, and an agreed technology, people, and AI roadmap within the first month. Scope and timing depend on the situation.
My fractional CTO/CIO engagements typically run six to eighteen months. We agree on the scope, cadence, and outcomes together. Coaching and focused AI projects can have their own structure; the Contribution Program can be scoped as a shorter pilot.
Yes. I can work alongside internal leaders, support their development through coaching, and help coordinate your existing teams and vendors with specialist partners where needed.
It is one focused AI engagement. We look at how AI changes work, the capacity it releases, and how people's strengths and interests can support more valuable contribution. Your team can be starting with AI or already using it extensively.
LET'S FIND THE RIGHT STARTING POINT
Bring an AI opportunity, a project that needs rescuing, or a leadership challenge. Together, we'll shape a path that advances the business and develops the people moving it forward.
Technology leadership.
Human potential.
Meaningful progress.