Fractional CTO & Strategic Technologist for Complex Digital Products

I work in the seam between deep systems and business reality. Over three decades that’s meant enterprise IT, a billion-dollar hospital health-IT deployment, HIPAA-compliant DevOps, co-founding a self-sovereign-identity platform, and today running retention and field operations for a SOC 2 Type II managed-security provider. My range is the point: complex projects rarely fail inside one discipline — they fail in the gaps between strategy, architecture, security, adoption, and execution. That’s where I work.

I operate channel-first and hands-on — translating emerging technology into deployable business models, and keeping complex projects coherent with ADR discipline and structured multi-AI design review. Through Full Granklestein Ventures (FullGV) and BDITS I take on fractional leadership, architecture, and growth work; at Fortify24x7 I run retention, business development, and field operations for an award-winning MSSP. I’ve been the CTO/CIO, the co-founder, the VP of business development, and the marketer — often on the same problem.

Practical, evidence-first writing on how organizations actually adopt AI — and what it means for work. Biweekly.

Most consultants either strategize or implement; I do both. Most engineers stay inside one domain; I connect them. Most AI consultants sell demos; I focus on architecture, governance, cost, and durable systems. Most technical advisors don’t get sales, politics, and adoption — I’ve run all of them, often on the same project.

My value isn’t knowing every tool. Across three decades — network management to a billion-dollar hospital system to a SOC 2 MSSP to self-sovereign identity — I can rapidly model the system, find the leverage points, challenge weak assumptions, and help teams make better decisions.