Founder & Chief AI Officer, Just In Time AI
I have spent 30 years in enterprise technology, 14 of them at Microsoft, where for a decade I was its face across the Northeast. I co-wrote two Microsoft Press books on Azure, and I still work in it every day. Today I build AI and security products at Just In Time AI.
What I help with
Most technology decisions on a leader’s desk touch all three. I still do the hands-on work in each one, so the advice comes from practice.
Put AI to work on real problems, with clear rules for what it may do alone and what a person signs off.
Where this comes from
Find the gaps before someone else does, and be ready to show customers and auditors what you have in place.
Where this comes from
Plan, move and run your workloads on Azure with someone who co-wrote two books on architecting it, and still works in it every day.
Where this comes from
Pick the one that fits the decision in front of you. Every conversation starts with the same 20-minute call.
For CEOs and boards
A senior technology leader for your AI, security and cloud decisions, without a full-time hire: vCAIO and vCTO advisory, and board technology advisory.
How advisory worksFor event organizers and leadership offsites
Talks and workshops on AI, security and Azure. I have given more than 100 sessions on Azure and more than 100 hands-on labs.
Speaking topicsFor businesses that want it built and run
Consulting and managed services from Just In Time AI, my company, as a separate engagement from advisory.
Visit jitai.coThree results from three different rooms: an enterprise engineering team, a university classroom and a new AI product.
Down from 18 months
6 weeks
Time to a production release, after a value-stream session and a week-long build with the customer’s own team.
Enterprise release cycleDown from 12 days
4 hours
Setup time for a research-university classroom lab of hundreds of students and machines, at 40% lower cost.
Classroom labIdea to paying customers
13 weeks
About 13 weeks from the first line of code to a live, paying AI product for boat owners, built on an engine we already had.
New AI productWhere each number comes from is listed on my resume.
Just In Time AI
AI products that do real work for people whose hands are busy, security tools that show a business where it stands, and the guardrails that make the answers safe to act on.
See the work behind themTechnicians talk instead of type, keep working offline, and get an AI that asks a clarifying question when it is not sure, instead of guessing.
AIA marine product launched on the same engine in about 13 weeks, with a free diagnosis every month for boat owners.
AISecurity scans with risk scored for the businesses it is built for: legal, healthcare, financial and manufacturing. The first scan is free.
Security & ComplianceA memory toolkit that lets an AI coding assistant pick up where it left off, so the person does not have to remember for it.
AIThe why and the leadership side lives here. The step-by-step technical deep dives live on ITProGuru.com.
Series, 4 parts
“The last letter in ADHD stands for Disorder. … I chose to focus on the other side of the coin, the side effects that turn out to be super powers.”
Start with part 1Latest postsAll posts
Part 2 of 4 · ADHD as a SuperPower: The Series
Can you write down an idea the moment it arrives, before a phone call, a question from a coworker, and a closing door erase it? Many people cannot, and the cost is not a personality quirk. It is a dropped follow-up, a...
Part 1 of 4 · ADHD as a SuperPower: The Series
If your brain runs at full speed all day and you have spent years apologizing for it, you are carrying a cost that is bigger than it feels. Working adults who meet ADHD criteria lose about 22 more days of work...
When that proof is missing, each failed pickup costs the team directly. Staff spend hours clarifying a request that should have been complete. AI workers burn tokens and compute on work they cannot finish. Every ticket...
Start with two things: the basic controls actually configured and working — multi-factor authentication, endpoint protection, patching, backup that has been test-restored — and three documents that describe them: an...
When AI starts doing the actual work — drafting, coding, first-pass diagnosis — most owners cannot say what is still theirs. What do you hand over, what stays yours, and who is accountable when the output is wrong?...
Part 3 of 4 · ADHD as a SuperPower: The Series
Three things: a single capture point so nothing has to survive in our heads, structure we can read off a wall instead of recall from memory, and a ten-minute timer that starts before motivation shows up. None of them...
Step-by-step Azure, cloud and security posts, written as the IT Pro Guru since 2008.
Speaking and teaching
For a decade I was Microsoft’s technical evangelist for the Northeast, setting the customer and community strategy for IT leaders and engineers from New York to Maine.
I speak at events all the time. I have taught live classes as a guest instructor at the New England Institute of Technology, from Azure and cloud to security and leadership, and on Azure and technology at Harvard and MIT.
I have ADHD, and I call it my biggest superpower. Most of what I build is designed around it.
Before Just In Time AI, I spent about 14 years at Microsoft. I co-wrote two Microsoft Press books on architecting Azure solutions, and I have written 750 to 800 technical posts over 17 years as the IT Pro Guru, many of them on Azure and the cloud.
In 2003 I founded a technology consulting and hosting company, and I still own it. Along the way I have led teams and projects at dozens of Fortune 500 companies, and I served four years in the U.S. Army with the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii.
I was a Microsoft MVP before Microsoft hired me.
Azure architecture, security and compliance, and AI products, across 30 years in enterprise technology, 14 of them at Microsoft.
Tell me what you are weighing. In 20 minutes we will both know whether I can help.