// technology consulting · chicago //
Technology that serves people — not the other way around.
I help organizations turn fragile, frustrating systems into ones that quietly just work — so your team can get back to the work that matters.
Available for new consulting engagements
15+ years
building & leading technology teams
Global scale
infrastructure, applications & data
tools I reach for
awsazurecloudflarejiraoktanext.jsphpsalesforcesqlwordpressmicrosoft 365
// what i do //
Steady hands for the hard, unglamorous parts.
Whether you’re a startup, a small business, or a global nonprofit, the goal is the same: technology you don’t have to think about.
Cloud & infrastructure
Edge, migrations, resilience and cost control on Cloudflare and AWS. Fewer 2 a.m. pages, lower bills, room to grow.
Security & identity
SSO, Okta, sane access controls and DDoS mitigation that actually holds up under real traffic and real attacks.
Fractional tech leadership
A senior technology partner for strategy, vendors, budgets and teams — the value of a CTO without a full-time hire.
Privacy & data
Practical, people-first privacy and data hygiene — tools and policies that respect the humans actually using them.
// how i work //
Start with the people and the problem. The smallest change that makes the biggest difference usually wins.
01 — listen
Understand the real problem
What’s actually slowing your team down — not just the symptom that landed in the ticket.
02 — simplify
Right-size the fix
No gold-plating, no rip-and-replace for its own sake. The leanest solution that lasts.
03 — hand off
Leave it better than I found it
Documented, maintainable, and owned by your team — not dependent on me forever.
// selected work //
Things I’ve built and rescued.
A mix of systems shipped end-to-end and infrastructure quietly kept standing under pressure.
Staff scheduler
Package tracking
Global technology stack
Led infrastructure, applications and data for a global nonprofit — so the organization could focus on its mission, not its uptime.
Edge hardening & DDoS defense
Diagnosed and absorbed a flood of 40M+ malicious requests at the edge without taking the site down for real users.
Identity & SSO migration
Designed a lean pipeline to move thousands of user profiles and photos into Okta-backed single sign-on — a clean bridge, not a forklift.
// live demo · runs in your browser //
Check any domain’s email & DNS health.
The kind of quick audit I run on day one, wired into this page. It reads public DNS records — SPF, DMARC, DNSSEC, MTA-STS and friends — and grades what it finds.
queries go straight from your browser to Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1) — nothing is sent to, or logged by, this site.
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Prefer a guided version? Take the two-minute stack self-audit.
Want the full picture — DKIM selectors, TLS-RPT, alignment, the fix list? Ask for a real audit →
// who you’d be working with //
Hi, I’m Ed.
I’m a Chicago-based technologist who’s equally comfortable wrangling servers, writing code, or leading a team. I spent the bulk of my career making technology genuinely serve the people who depend on it — where reliability isn’t about uptime charts, it’s about real people getting what they need.
I think about privacy every day — not as a rejection of technology, but as a belief that people deserve tools that respect them. When I’m offline, I’m usually somewhere between a backpacking trail, a bizarre plane route I found on points, and the finish line of a race that questions my life choices around mile eight.
B.S. Computer & Electrical Engineering, Rutgers
Speaker, ShoreTel One Partner Conference
15+ years in nonprofit & enterprise IT
// let’s talk //
Have a system that should just work?
Tell me what’s slowing you down. We’ll figure out the smallest change that makes the biggest difference — no obligation, no jargon.