Founder of Praxis CTO. I help growing companies get serious about technology leadership — without the full-time executive price tag. 20+ years in enterprise IT, currently Senior IT Architect at Tractor Supply Company.
AI & Automation
The Word Has Stopped Meaning Anything Useful A managing partner sits through a vendor demo. The pitch deck says "agentic AI" six times in the first ten minutes — describing, it turns out, a tool that fills in a standard intake form from an uploaded PDF. Down the hall,
Leadership
The Pattern Is Usually Invisible Until Someone Names It No company wakes up one day and declares "our technology leadership has been outgrown." It happens gradually, through a series of individually explainable moments — a delayed launch here, a frustrating vendor renewal there, a security scare that got resolved
Fractional CTO
The Gap Nobody Budgeted For Most growing companies have a plan for hiring a VP of Sales once revenue justifies it, and a plan for a CFO once the finance function outgrows a bookkeeper. Very few have a plan for the moment their technology decisions outgrow whoever happens to be