Fractional CTO · Colorado Springs
Enterprise systems, mergers, and regulated platforms — led by a founder who has shipped them since before the cloud. Retainer-grade CTO leadership, no full-time hire.
40
Years in software
50+
Apps delivered
99+
Projects led
30+
Airports served
Selected work
Directed four agile engineering teams through the full core-banking integration, then architected the $243M asset-securitization loan migration — zero customer-facing downtime.
$243M migration · 4 teams
Flight and operations tracking systems still running today across 30+ major hubs — DEN, DFW, LAX, JFK — where a single defect is not an option.
30+ airports · safety-critical
Built the USADA data warehouse and dashboard, then led the sale of the platform to the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Swiss Olympic Committee.
USADA → WADA exit
A founder-led practice delivering 50+ enterprise applications for banking, aviation, investment, and government clients — L3Harris, Willis Towers Watson, Port Authority NY/NJ.
20+ years · founder
How an engagement runs
A focused read on your architecture, team, and the decisions quietly blocking you — where the risk actually lives and what it costs to leave it there.
Hands-on engineering leadership embedded with your teams — hiring, roadmaps, vendor calls, board decks, and the hard calls a CTO should carry.
Documentation, a trained internal owner, and a clean exit. The retainer is a season, not a dependency.
About Randy
"The best systems are boring. I like boring."
Randy started coding on a Commodore 64 at fifteen, served as a Computer and Telecommunications Specialist in the US Air Force, and has spent four decades since building software that carries consequences — for the CIA, the FAA, J.P. Morgan Chase, and credit unions worth billions. He founded and ran his own consultancy for twenty years, and along the way a coffee lounge with a team of twenty. Father of ten, husband of one, and a firm believer that the best architecture reviews happen over a very good cup of coffee.
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Board-ready, hands-on, and honest about what a retainer can and can't fix.