CTO | CIO - Fractional Leadership
helping companies build great teams, processes, systems and products
What is a fractional leader?
As a fractional CTO or CIO , I bring the deep experience of hands-on senior leadership into your organization without the long term costs of a full-time senior CTO / CIO
What I do
Depending on the needs of your organization, I take a hands on approach to helping your team overcome obstacles to accomplishing their goals.
I'm a SaaS entrepreneur and consultant with a senior full-stack skillset and cross-departmental implementation expertise. I've had hands-on experience with all parts of many different SaaS and technology companies which provides me with a unique cross-functional skillset and leadership skills.
Areas I can impact:
Operational processes and efficiency
Software development processes, measurement, efficiency
Software development team performance and skillset alignment
Building capacity: Recruiting and team development
Software and platform architecture
Code quality standards implementation
Client software, IoT, hardware & firmware leadership
Quality assurance process and effectiveness
Customer success process and effectiveness
Agile implementations: Development, Management, Marketing
Marketing and Marketing Ops
Benefits
Proven expertise and leadership skills
Hands-on technical and full-stack knowledge
Strong technical and non-technical leadership
Cost-effective use of senior level leadership without ongoing full-time cashflow commitment
“I'm happy to recommend Ryan who worked with us as a fractional CTO and lead our company to improve how we do things as a SaaS company. Through a measured and hands-on leadership style Ryan was able to align and train our departments and management team to improve the efficiency and quality of our Product, Engineering and Customer Success departments. He worked closely with our CEO and Business Development team to set annual and quarterly goals and implement a consistent meeting schedules and processes for review. In addition to this Ryan lead the architecture and implementation of a next generation SaaS platform, worked with external SaaS/PaaS vendors and developed strong outsourcing relationships capabilities, our improved alpha and beta processes, and also improved our recruiting processes.” ~ Dropified.
Chase Bowers
Founder/CEO @ Dropified | Investor | Inc. #55 Fastest Growing Company
“Ryan brought a process-driven, thoughtful, scalable, and resilient approach to the chaos that is defacto in technology-driven tracking, attribution, and reporting for direct to consumer advertising in eCommerce.
He has also driven innovations in process, offer monitoring and eCom long journey offer tracking that are all improving our ability to invest on partners’ behalf with more confidence.
Ryan embodies calm, measured, capable leadership. The cornerstone for growth.” ~ Strawhouse
Mark How
CEO, investor and partner
“Ryan is a fantastic technical leader and was integral to the evolution of our product and engineering team. He demonstrated tenacity and ability to thrive in the often ambiguous and uncertain world that is the early stage startup. Ryan also has strong technical skills and is willing and able to roll up his sleeves and get stuff done.” ~ FunnelEnvy
Arun Sivashankaran
Founder at FunnelEnvy
“Ryan is awesome to work with and he delivered more than what we expected.” “Ryan is sharp, a great communicator, and obviously experienced in building good apps quickly. We just signed another contract with him and it probably won't be the last.”
~ HyperHippo
Aubrey Tennant
COO & Co-Founder at Genpop Interactive
Ryan is a highly innovative and skilled CEO/CTO with a clear passion for technology. Ryan constructively challenges his team to push for a clearer "why" and is adept at finding strategic avenues and opportunities to drive towards. Ryan is a focused leader who is clearly respected by his colleagues and I look forward to having the opportunity to work with Ryan in the future!” ~ JBF Sports Inc. / Mazu
Shauna Stewart Douglas
Operations Director