Consulting

While I was CTO at Kazaa (more about me) I dealt with massive numbers of users, rapid development cycles, international development teams and utter, utter chaos. I also have experience making the mistakes you are about to make. I specialise in identifying, creating and executing smart technology strategies.

Core Services

• Technology strategy: How do you figure out what’s important? When you know what to do and how do you do it?
• CTO services: What is your process? How do you balance quality with speed? Do you need to offshore some development to meet the demands of the business?
• User-centric product design: Do real users understand how to use your product? What’s the point? Do you have too many features? Have you over-engineered your product?
• Outsourcing: Did you know you can get quality software development done for $15 / hour offshore? Sometimes its the only way to turn a dream into a reality.
• Dilligence: Risk management for investors and reality checks for entrepeneurs.

Specialising in

• Surrendering to the users: Building a successful business where the technology empowers the users to be in charge.
• Shoestring Budgets: Start-ups don’t have the spending power that Google or Microsoft have. How do you ‘make-do’ with what you have and beat the big players?

How it works

• Getting to know each other: Get me in for a workshop. I will look at your business and give you some advice on an area your operation needs most help with as determined by you.
• Start using us for specific projects AND OR
• Engage me on retainer so you get the benefits of experience without the cost of a full-time hire.

Blink

Bringing me in can act as an accelerator. Immediate engagement with outsource teams or international networks of technologists and media companies. The focus is on getting things done… on execution… on delivery… on finding a way… on making processes which are resilient to the realities of business operations.

I help your business use what it has to become what it needs to be. There is rarely a perfect world, never enough money and certainly not enough time. I bring you a globally experienced CTO for the amount of time that you can afford to help you put in place the things to need to succeed.

Contact me if you want to know more.

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