We help small and mid-sized businesses make better technology decisions, modernize their environments, control technology costs, and build scalable foundations for growth.
Fractional CTO | Technology Strategy | Cloud | Data | AI | FinOps
Technology decisions are being made reactively, without a clear roadmap tied to business priorities.
Cloud, infrastructure, software, and vendor costs continue to increase without a clear understanding of where the money is going.
Older applications and systems are becoming difficult to maintain, integrate, or scale.
Your organization has moved to the cloud, but the environment may be more expensive or complex than expected.
Critical business information is spread across systems, making reporting and decision-making slower than they should be.
You see the potential of AI but aren't sure where to start—or whether your data, technology, and organization are ready.
Your IT team can execute, but you need experienced leadership to set priorities, evaluate investments, and drive major initiatives.
Your business is growing, transforming, or acquiring companies and needs technology leadership to support the change.
Technology is not the objective. Business outcomes are.
My role as a Fractional CTO is to help leadership teams make technology decisions that support growth, improve operational performance, manage risk, and generate measurable value.
Understand the company's goals, growth plans, operational challenges, and financial priorities before making technology recommendations.
Evaluate the existing technology environment—including applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, vendors, costs, governance, and organizational capabilities.
Separate strategic priorities from "nice to have" technology initiatives and focus investment on the areas that can create the greatest business impact.
Develop a clear, prioritized roadmap with near-term actions, 90-day priorities, and longer-term initiatives aligned with the business strategy.
Provide the leadership and oversight needed to move from strategy to execution while measuring progress through cost, efficiency, scalability, risk, and business outcomes.
The goal is not to add more technology. It is to make the technology you have—and the technology you invest in—work better for the business.
Whether you need ongoing technology leadership or focused expertise for a specific transformation, Tejas Data Management provides practical, executive-level guidance from strategy through execution.
Senior technology leadership for businesses that need experienced guidance without hiring a full-time CTO.
• Technology strategy and leadership
• Executive technology advisory
• Technology assessments and roadmaps
• IT investment prioritization
• Technology governance
• Leadership of internal and external technology teams
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Turn business objectives into a practical technology strategy and prioritized roadmap.
• Technology assessments
• Enterprise architecture
• Technology roadmaps
• Application and infrastructure modernization
• Vendor evaluation and selection
• Technology operating models
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Modernize your cloud environment while improving scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Cloud migration strategy
• Cloud modernization
• AWS, Azure and GCP
• Cloud architecture
• FinOps and cost optimization
• Infrastructure modernization
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Build a modern data foundation that supports better reporting, analytics, and business decisions.
• Data strategy
• Data architecture
• Data platform modernization
• Analytics modernization
• Executive dashboards and reporting
• Data governance
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Move beyond AI experimentation with a practical approach focused on business value and organizational readiness.
• AI readiness assessments
• AI use-case identification
• Data readiness
• Generative AI strategy
• AI governance considerations
• Practical AI adoption roadmaps
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Assess, integrate, and modernize technology environments during acquisitions and business transformation.
• Technology due diligence
• IT infrastructure assessment
• Application and data assessment
• Technology cost analysis
• Post-acquisition integration
• Technology value-creation roadmaps
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Technology strategy is only valuable when it leads to measurable business outcomes.
With 25+ years of technology leadership experience, including CIO leadership and complex transformation engagements across multiple industries, I bring both executive perspective and hands-on transformation experience.
Former CIO
Led technology strategy for a $100M organization with approximately 20 internal IT staff, 100 consultants, and a $2M technology budget.
Cloud Transformation
Led migration and modernization of infrastructure, applications, and data across complex enterprise environments.
M&A Technology Integration
Led multi-year technology integration initiatives involving acquired companies, cloud migration, applications, infrastructure, and data.
Cost Optimization
Led FinOps and cloud modernization initiatives focused on identifying cost leakage, improving efficiency, and creating sustainable technology cost governance.
Life Sciences, Healthcare, Insurance & Technology
Delivered technology transformation initiatives across a range of regulated and complex industries.
I work with business leaders who need experienced technology leadership to navigate growth, transformation, and change.
You need technology to support growth, but don't necessarily need—or aren't ready to hire—a full-time CTO.
You need greater visibility into technology spending, cloud costs, technology investments, and the financial impact of technology decisions.
You are planning a major technology initiative, modernization program, AI adoption, or business transformation and need experienced technology leadership.
You need technology assessment, due diligence, cost optimization, M&A integration, or a technology roadmap to support value creation.
You are growing rapidly, integrating an acquisition, replacing technology leadership, or preparing for the next stage of the business.
You don't need to have all the answers before bringing in a Fractional CTO.
If you're dealing with technology decisions around growth, modernization, cloud, cost, data, AI, or transformation, let's start with a conversation.