CTO: Founder

Rick built every CTO practice the same way: by mastering the work himself, then building the team to deliver it. His consulting provides senior technology leadership - Fractional CTO and vCISO engagements grounded in strategy, technology roadmaps, and deep compliance expertise. In cybersecurity, he has kept public-facing infrastructure secure since 1996, pairing that track record with modern defenses from zero-trust architecture to AI-driven exploit detection. He has worked hands-on in AI since 2020, well before the headlines, across governance, custom development, automation, and analysis. And in websites, he has personally mastered every discipline: design, full-stack development, databases, hosting architecture, and SEO.

Rick's expertise has made him a sought-after consultant. He has been quoted online and in newspapers, testified as an expert witness, made numerous television appearances, and lectured at organizations and colleges across the country. His consulting is used locally and internationally in the financial services, healthcare, nonprofit, and government sectors, with clientele ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Rick developed <Irreverent IT> - an approach that challenges conventional thinking, discards outdated best practices, and prioritizes modern, results-driven solutions - enabling his customers to outpace their peers, grow while others have collapsed, and leverage market opportunities in good economies and bad.