Strategy, software,
and the uncomfortable
work in between.
that need to ship something real —
not another deck.
I help leadership teams turn ambition into outcomes — managing the project, designing the application, architecting the system, and bridging the parts of the business that have stopped talking to each other.
Engagements scope from a two‑week diagnostic to a multi‑quarter build. Click any line to expand.
Three things I'll insist on, before we start.
Outcomes over output.
We agree on the number that has to move — revenue, cycle time, cost, conversion — before a single line of code or a single Gantt chart. Everything is measured against that.
One throat to choke.
Strategy, design, architecture and delivery in one operator. No translation tax between the deck and the build. Fewer handoffs, fewer surprises, faster decisions.
Honesty is the deliverable.
You'll get the recommendation I'd give a friend who owned the company — including the parts about scope, staffing, or stakeholders that nobody wants to put in writing.
Most projects don't fail technically. They fail between people.
Sales promised it. Marketing positioned it. IT has to build and operate it. By the time those three teams are in the same room, the requirements are already a sketch of three different products.
I sit at that intersection. I translate, I mediate, I make the trade‑offs explicit, and I write them down so they survive past the meeting. Then I stay long enough to ship the thing everyone agreed to.
A small practice, on purpose.
Short Productions is an independent consulting practice. No bench, no partners to feed, no incentive to extend a project past its useful life. When you hire me, you get me — the same person on the call, in the doc, and in the code.
I've spent the better part of two decades shipping software inside companies that don't think of themselves as software companies — running programs, designing applications, architecting systems, and standing up AI capabilities that pay for themselves. The throughline is the same every time: take the messy human problem, make it concrete, ship the smallest thing that proves it, and measure honestly.
If that sounds like the help you need, the next move is a conversation.
Tell me what's actually in the way.
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