Have the senior voice in the room
Fractional CTO, board advisory and technical due diligence. Someone who has run networks, signed contracts and answered to leadership.
Having spent nearly three decades inside service provider and enterprise networks, I now help operators and the businesses that depend on them make better infrastructure decisions. Transport strategy, peering, automation and the carrier contracts nobody has time to read.
Fractional CTO, board advisory and technical due diligence. Someone who has run networks, signed contracts and answered to leadership.
Architecture, capacity, automation and where AI actually helps. A read on real solutions for real networks.
Transport, peering and carrier contracts. I quote across carriers, negotiate the terms and stay on the account for the life of it.
Designs, vendor proposals, post-incident reviews. No product to sell you and no reason to tell you what you want to hear.
Every network engineer doing this work for any length of time has a telecom procurement horror story. The circuit that took six months to install. The carrier that quoted three different prices before even getting the address right. The circuit that auto-
5 May 2026 · 11 min read