Executive Technology Leadership

Technology Leadership & Consulting

Strategic, Focused Engagements

Executive technology leadership and consulting for growth stage companies

Accelerate Your Team

Does your business suffer from any of these pains and frustrations in your Software Engineering organization?

  • Engineering projects routinely missing deadlines and falling behind.
  • Difficulty attracting and retaining top Engineering talent.
  • Missed SLAs are angering your customers and causing your Sales team to lose confidence.
  • Your highly-paid Senior Software Engineers spend more time fighting fires than advancing new, strategic products.

You are not alone - these and other common pain points are experienced by almost every venture growth stage company.

A short-term, focused strategic engagement can turn your team around and set your business up for sustained success. Here's how:

Discovery

Start with someone who will get the facts by listening to your team. You are the experts and know your pain points - you just need an objective eye to provide clarity and create a plan.

  • Get Essential Facts
  • Review Systems and Processes
  • Verify Assumptions
  • Clarify Vision and Strategy

Adaptation

Your people are smart and doing a lot of things right. Outside, independent expertise will leverage existing resources and successes, while identifying old patterns that aren't working, and unlock your team's true potential.

  • Protect Existing Functionality
  • Update Current Approaches
  • Idenfity and Create Shortcuts
  • Loosen Rigid Processes

Innovation

Large scale, battle tested software engineering expertise is put to work on your most pressing technical challenges while proven leadership experience cuts through complex talent dynamics.

  • Improvise Solutions
  • Promote Alternatives
  • Initiate Change
  • Create a Sense of Urgency

Restoration

The entire business gains renewed confidence in your technical team's ability to execute and deliver, on time and to specification.

  • Idenitify Pain Points
  • Remove Obstacles
  • Apply Best Practices
  • Reinforce Success

Get It Done

Transform Software Engineering

Drive Transparency and Accountability

Elevate Development Execution, Throughput, and Delivery

Proven engineering leadership, software development, and venture-backed startup experience put to work with tactical precision.

Engineering

Delivery & Execution

Drive accountability and delivery

  • Product focus & priority alignment
  • SLA crisis resolution
  • Agile process implementation & refinement
  • Outsourcing strategy & implementation

Engineering

Change Management

Organize for maxium effectiveness

  • Team transformation & turnaround
  • Interim/supplemental CTO leadership
  • Continuity & succession planning
  • Team & individual performance management

Engineering

Talent Strategy

Get the right people in place

  • Talent assessment
  • Talent acquisition strategy
  • Talent optimization planning
  • Recruiting strategy & candidate care

Technology &

Infrastructure Strategy

Stabilize today, scale for tomorrow

  • Platform assessment & prioritization
  • Cloud migration strategy
  • Infrastructure capacity planning
  • Cost analysis & reduction strategy

M&A

Integration Strategy

Target and acquire with confidence

  • Technology & talent due diligence
  • Technology integration planning
  • Data onboarding strategy
  • Talent blending and retention strategy

Technology

Leadership Development

Set managers up for success

  • Leadership coaching & mentoring
  • OKR development & goal setting
  • Accountability development
  • Strategic focus development

Geoffrey Young

With proven software industry experience spanning four startups, a top consulting firm, and a global ticketing conglomerate, Geoff brings a unique diversity of experience, leadership, and success to the companies he works with. An innovative technologist whose hands-on background includes big data, search, SaaS, and mobile solutions, Geoff has been providing executive and turnaround leadership for software engineering organizations since 2014.

Geoffrey Young

Executive Technologist