"Ian helped TrueNorth (Series B startup) level-up its engineering power. Within the first months, Ian was able to take this young team from being months behind on the roadmap to a team that consistently delivered work on time."
"Our outsourced team was months behind schedule and continuously delivering buggy code. Ian helped us identify different team structure options, and facilitating a clear plan of action that got us back on track and improved the quality of our deliveries."
After launching a new data-focused product line, Shareaholic faced rising monthly infrastructure costs. By migrating development languages and re-architecting our data serving systems, Ian helped us achieved an 80% cost reduction and a 5X capacity increase.
Everyone dreams of having high-performing engineering teams, but let’s face it—getting there isn’t a one-time achievement; it’s a wild, ongoing ride that demands constant tweaks and attention.
For over 20 years, we’ve been helping companies speed up their journey toward building teams that truly shine. Along the way we've we’ve stumbled and made mistakes, but also learned that success isn’t just about technical skills—it’s about creating a culture of collaboration, trust, and accountability. The road to high performing teams is full of bumps, but that’s where real growth happens.
Curious about what we’ve learned? Check out the articles, packed with insights from our experiences.
Teams can fail to deliver for various reasons. We help get your team back on track by assessing the current situation and implementing a structured, disciplined approach to planning, reporting, and making continuous adjustments, to ensure long-term sustainability.
Establish repeatable & predictable feature delivery
Review existing process and interview teams;
Identify a SDLC process suited to your company;
Develop transition plan & timelines;
Establish metrics and review cycles;
Monitor monthly via mentoring & coaching, KPIs & checkins;
Leveraging outsourced teams can be liberating or debilitating, depending on your organization's maturity. Whether you're considering adopting an outsourcing model or moving away from it, we provide the processes and structure for the transition and long-term success.
Facilitate a move TO or FROM off-shore or near-shore teams
Review motivation factors & success parameters;
Review current process and team;
Identify team type // Partnership needed for success;
Develop transition plan & timelines;
Interview, select & onboard vendor // Recruit & hire;
Monitor and adjust monthly via business checkins & KPIs;
We provide fractional CTO services that give CEOs and founders peace of mind. Whether it's crafting strategy or planning, directly overseeing execution, or working alongside your existing leadership, we ensure everything runs seamlessly. By leveraging our extensive experience in the rapidly evolving tech landscape, we offer the expertise needed to confidently navigate crucial decisions across technology, process and people . With our oversight, you can trust that the technology is working to support your goals, allowing you to focus on scaling the company without any added stress.
We guide founders through the process of building a high-performing team by addressing concerns about team dynamics and performance. We implement proven strategies for recruitment, development, management, and growth, ensuring a cohesive and motivated team that drives success while alleviating fears about team effectiveness and productivity.
We advise non-technical founders by translating complex technical concepts into clear, actionable steps, ensuring that technology decisions align with their vision. We provide expert guidance to alleviate concerns about technical challenges, helping to confidently drive their startup's growth without getting bogged down by technical details.
We mentor, coach and advise technical founders and CTOs by providing insights and guidance based on our experience to overcome the uncertainties of scaling technology, processes and managing teams. Our support helps to build confidence in decision making, fostering growth and enabling CTOs to leader with clarity and confidence.
I'm a Fractional CTO, Advisor and Mentor who works with startups that are frustrated by the uncertainty that comes with scaling teams and processes. My 20+ years experience will help you confidently lead your engineering organization to success—even if you've struggled with managing growth, team dynamics and productivity in the past.
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