Strategic Scaling for the Mid-Market
For medium-sized businesses, technology should be a growth engine, not a bottleneck; they need the right tech to support their growth objectives. The reality is that most businesses that are working to grow and scale, don’t have the budget for a full-time expert to manage their digital transformation but they lack the expertise to do it with the resources they currently have. It can be a challenging “Catch-22”. Truth be told, they don’t need a 40-hour-a-week employee at all, they may need an expert for a fraction of that time. And it may be for short sprints, not on an on-going basis. Enter the Fractional Chief Technology Officer! Hiring fractionally, checks all of these boxes.
As your Fractional CTO, Brandie Kayser provides high-level architectural oversight and cloud adoption strategies. Her broad expertise includes: Microsoft Azure deployments,Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace environments. The specific designs are tailor-made for organizations moving from legacy systems to scalable infrastructure. She specializes in managing end-to-end software implementations, ensuring your tech stack aligns with your long-term business roadmap. If you are looking for common sense, pragmatic advice, look no further.
Brandie’s approach goes beyond implementing a shopping list of the most recent technology trends. Her focus is on Systems Thinking to identify where technology can reduce IT costs by 20-30% while increasing overall productivity. She will take the time to get a deep understanding of the business goals and where it is today. Brandie brings “Big Tech” experience from a seven-year tenure at IBM Watson Health to your local enterprise. The result is a custom-built plan that provides a unique roadmap to get the business where you want it to go.
She will provide the executive-level guidance needed to manage your entire ecosystem, your strategic partners, and vendors, ensuring that every piece of your infrastructure serves your expansion goals.
- Cloud Architecture: Designing and implementing robust Azure, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace environments.
- Infrastructure Management: Troubleshooting performance issues and repairing network latency to ensure business continuity.
- Installing and supporting network infrastructure, including: Physical and Cloud Servers, WiFi, and networking devices (Firewalls, Routers, and Switches)
- Software Implementation: Providing end-to-end consulting on business and medical technology, CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce), QuickBooks Desktop Migrations, and ERP solutions.
- Vendor Strategy: Managing high-level collaborations with strategic partners like Microsoft, Google, and others.
- Backup and Disaster Recovery: Would your business survive a total data loss or even a multi-day disruption? Very few would, so we implement a Data Loss Prevention Plan, including backing up critical data and making sure you can access it quickly if your systems fail or are compromised.
