Technology should be helping your business grow, not just keeping the lights on. I sit in the strategic seat above your day-to-day IT — setting direction, owning the roadmap, and holding your vendors accountable — as a trusted advisor who takes the time to learn how your business actually runs. Independent, vendor-neutral, and here in the metro.
Most Oklahoma City businesses reach a point where every new system, vendor decision, or security question needs someone who can think strategically — not just fix what's broken. If any of these sound familiar, a fractional CIO is the seat you're missing.
Your business runs on real technology now — servers, an ERP, line-of-business software — and nobody at the leadership table actually owns where it's all going.
Managed providers are good at support and patching. They're not the ones building your three-year roadmap, negotiating your contracts, or stress-testing your risk. That's a different seat.
A cyber-insurance questionnaire you couldn't answer, a security scare, a new location, an acquisition, a compliance deadline — something made it clear technology needs an owner.
Everything a full-time Chief Information Officer would own — strategy, security, spend, and vendor accountability — delivered at the cadence your business actually needs.
A clear plan that follows where the business is going, so technology decisions stop being reactive and start being deliberate.
A risk register, a defensible security posture, incident-response readiness, and cyber-insurance answers you can attest to truthfully. More on security →
Selection, negotiation, consolidation, and holding your MSP and vendors accountable to what they promised. How I manage vendors →
Identity, Conditional Access, and migrations designed right, so security and AI have a foundation to sit on. Cloud & M365 →
Capital and operating budgets, refresh cycles, license optimization, and finding the money that's currently going to the wrong places.
Where AI actually saves time versus where it's a distraction, plus HIPAA, CMMC, SOC 2, and PCI readiness when they apply. AI, done right →
Most "vCIO" services are folded into a managed-services contract — which means the company advising your roadmap also sells you the hardware, licenses, and support to fulfill it. That advice can't be fully independent, and it can't hold your provider accountable, because it is your provider.
I'm independent and vendor-neutral. I don't resell hardware, software, or managed services, and I take no markups, commissions, or referral fees. You contract your vendors directly, at vendor pricing. My only stake is whether the decision was right for you — which is the entire reason the advice is worth trusting.
And I work here, in person. Strategy and trust get built in the room — reading a leadership meeting, walking your floor, sitting across the table when you're changing a vendor. That's why the roster stays small on purpose.
No reselling, no markup, no commissions or kickbacks. The only compensation is the fee — it's what makes the advice trustworthy.
In person for the conversations that matter, remote between visits. Presence isn't a checkbox on this job.
No long-term contract. The engagement continues because it's working, not because you're locked in.
One experienced IT leader who knows your systems, your people, and where you're headed — and answers for all of it.
On-site fractional CIO, vCIO, and outsourced IT-director leadership for established businesses across the metro — energy and oil & gas, construction, manufacturing and distribution, healthcare, professional services, and more.
You'll know early whether there's a fit — and you get something useful whether or not you sign anything.
60 to 90 minutes, no charge, no pitch. We find out whether there's a fit and what the business actually needs.
A one-time $1,500–$2,500 risk summary and prioritized 12-month roadmap — a complete deliverable on its own, even if you stop there.
Scoped from what the assessment finds — $2,000 to $6,000 a month, month-to-month. Never quoted blind. See how pricing works →
A fractional CIO is an experienced Chief Information Officer who leads your technology part-time. You get executive IT leadership and a single point of accountability at CIO altitude — strategy, the 12-month roadmap, security posture, vendor and budget oversight — sized to what a small or medium business actually needs. Day-to-day support stays with your MSP or in-house staff; the fractional CIO directs it.
The terms get used interchangeably — vCIO (virtual CIO), fractional CIO, and outsourced IT director all describe part-time executive technology leadership. The distinction that matters isn't the label, it's independence: a vCIO bundled inside a managed-services contract advises on the same products it sells you. I'm independent and vendor-neutral, so the advice is yours, not a sales path. MSP vs. fractional CIO →
The whole OKC metro, in person: Oklahoma City, Edmond, Norman, Moore, Yukon, Mustang, Midwest City, Del City, and Guthrie. Being local and on-site is the point — strategy and trust get built in the room, not only over video.
On-site and in person across the Oklahoma City metro, backed by remote work between visits. Most vCIOs, even local ones, work remotely; being present for the leadership conversations that run on trust is a deliberate choice, and it's why the client roster stays deliberately small.
It starts with a free 60-to-90-minute discovery call. If there's a fit, a one-time written IT assessment ($1,500 to $2,500) produces a risk summary and a prioritized 12-month roadmap, and the monthly retainer ($2,000 to $6,000, month-to-month) is scoped from what the assessment finds — never quoted blind. Full pricing detail →
Sixty to ninety minutes, no charge, no pitch — just whether there's a fit. If there is, you'll get a fractional CIO who actually knows your business.
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