Agentic AI · Legacy modernization · Business case · Outcome-based
Funding AI modernization at a large U.S. insurer
Core legacy applications were slowing the business and AI ambitions had no funded path to production. A $150k assessment, strategy, and roadmap engagement laid out the benefits; I tied every initiative to a business outcome, defined a modernization approach built on AI-driven code refactoring and agentic process redesign, and built the business case executives approved: $5M in year one, $15M over three years.
$15M program funded, $5M in year onein year one: change failure rate and mean time to recovery down 30%, time to value against the feature backlog cut in half
Data & AI governance · Data marketplace · AI-ready data
Governance that accelerates AI at the world's largest payments technology company
Enterprise data was abundant but hard to find, trust, and reuse. I led the enterprise Data & AI governance strategy and roadmap and the development of an enterprise data marketplace, positioning governance as the enabler of faster, safer AI experimentation: three business units adopted it, 300 certified data assets, and time to value for new analytics products cut from weeks to days.
Governance adopted, marketplace livethree business units (authorization, fraud, and analytics), 300 certified data assets, time to value for new analytics products cut from weeks to days
Agentic AI · Operating model · Context layer · Governance council
From strategy to a working agent at a clinical-stage biotech
Leadership wanted AI to move faster than a science-driven organization's data foundations allowed. I stood up an AI innovation operating model and a Data & AI governance council, architected a single-source-of-truth platform with a data catalog as the context layer for agents, and shipped an authoring agent that now removes 42 hours a week of manual reporting work across three project teams.
Operating model, council, platform, and a production agentthe authoring agent removes 42 hours a week of manual data collection, preparation, and visualization across three project teams; data-quality agents in pilot
Practice building · Offerings · Go-to-market · Talent
Building a Data & AI practice from zero at a national firm
Sikich had no data practice when I joined in September 2023. I founded it: a team hired from two consultants to nearly twenty, eight named offerings (most fixed-fee, one priced on the outcome), the AI Solutions Studio, the go-to-market by vertical, and the delivery frameworks, while leading AI transformation programs for Fortune 1000 clients.
$3M in the second full year, on track for $5M+built from a standing start, with a team of nearly twenty and Fortune 1000 accounts in manufacturing, insurance, and financial services
Founder · P&L · Acquisition
Founding, growing, and selling a data consultancy
I founded 3sage Consulting in Atlanta to do enterprise data management the way I thought it should be done: strategy first, governance built in, platforms business leaders could actually use. For nine years I owned the P&L, the client relationships, and the delivery, growing the firm to 24 consultants, $8–10M in revenue, and eight enterprise clients, most of them Fortune 1000.
Acquired by ThreeBridge Solutionswhich bought the firm to enter Atlanta and to add data, analytics, and AI consulting to its portfolio; I then led the combined practice as Partner