I build Data & AI capabilities that deliver measured business value: the strategy, the operating model, the governed data foundation, and the team that keeps it running.
I lead the Data & AI practice at Sikich, which I founded in September 2023 and built to a $3M practice in its second full year, on track for $5M+ in its third, while leading AI transformation programs for Fortune 1000 clients. Recent work includes the Data & AI strategy that secured a multimillion-dollar investment to modernize a large U.S. insurer's core applications through AI-driven code refactoring and agentic process redesign; a customer master data strategy unifying four legacy ERPs for a leading manufacturer and distributor; the first enterprise data platform, on Microsoft Fabric, and AI models for the lawyers of an Am Law 100 law firm; and an enterprise Data & AI strategy for a clinical-stage biotech that stood up an AI innovation operating model, a governance council, a single-source-of-truth platform, and a working authoring agent. The strategies come with the business case: I have presented to a mix of boards and executive steering committees for the investments that followed, from a Fortune 500 CDAO organization to a $5M first-year AI investment at an insurer.
Earlier, I led North Highland's global Data & Analytics practice, including enterprise Data & AI governance for the world's largest payments technology company, and ThreeBridge Solutions' Data & Analytics practice. I founded 3sage Consulting in 2009 and grew it until its acquisition by ThreeBridge.
I write about outcome-first AI, moving from pilot to production, and data monetization for Automation.com and Quality Digest, and have been quoted in CIO.com. I'm based in Atlanta.
