Fractional CIO · AI advisory · Business analysis
Work with your information technology, not against it.
I build and lead the technology function at startup pharma and biotech companies — from the first laptop to the systems that carry you through a filing. Thirty-eight years of it, available by the day, without the search and the salary.
38
Years in industry
CIO
Built and led, not just advised
What I do
Three engagements, one standard of judgment.
01
Fractional CIO
Standing up the function, or steadying one that grew faster than its plan: roadmap, budget, vendors, security posture, and the hiring you will need at the next headcount. You get a technology leader without carrying one on payroll.
02
AI advisory
Where these tools genuinely pay in a small science-led company, and where they quietly create liability. Governance, data handling, and a shortlist of uses worth funding this year rather than a strategy deck.
03
Business analysis
Requirements that survive contact with a vendor, processes written down as they actually run, and system selections argued on evidence. The unglamorous work that decides whether an implementation lands.
Track record
I have built this function before.
Most of my work has been standing up and running IT inside small pharma and biotech companies — the ones with a promising asset, a lean team and no technology function yet. Mainframes to client-server to cloud to whatever we are calling this: the platforms keep changing, the failure modes do not.
That has meant hiring and leading the teams, choosing the platforms a twenty-person company can actually run, and building the quality and compliance side properly the first time — I have created Quality departments from scratch, so the regulated part holds up without becoming the whole conversation. References available on request; small industry, short conversations.
38
Years in industry
CIO
Built and led, not just advised
1–2
Days a week, typical engagement
Most IT problems are not technology problems.
They are decisions made in a hurry, by people who already had other jobs to do. That is the seat I fill.