Work
Real engagements across ERP, custom development, data, and security — from board-level strategy to the stored procedures underneath.
Engaged as interim IT Director at a 10-plant automotive parts supplier (7 US, 3 Mexico) owned by a private equity firm. The company lacked IT governance, had no compliance posture, operated on a legacy ERP with no reporting infrastructure, and had no clear technology roadmap. Over 18 months, rebuilt the IT function from the ground up.
10
Plants · 7 US, 3 MX
18mo
IT roadmap delivered
TISAX + IATF
16949 compliance
$0 → full
Power BI finance stack
What was delivered
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A publicly traded $2B real estate operator had a NAV implementation stalled for two years — 13 vendors, $9M spent, nothing live. We completed design, implementation, training, and testing in 3 months, then ran IT operations through the company's sale and wind-down, SOX audits included. Month-end close dropped from 30+ days to 12.
Seven ERP deployment and upgrade projects across four continents as Global CIO of a >$750M manufacturer — AX 2009/2012 through D365 Finance & Operations — alongside B2C ecommerce launches in the US and Europe and a B2B order-management platform targeting €400M+ over five years.
At a $100M consumer products distributor, new EDI automation and validation tooling cut fixed EDI costs 30% annually and reduced customer/vendor chargebacks 80% from a high of more than $2M per year.
Dynamics CRM, Customer Service, and Field Service strategy, proof-of-concept architecture, and implementation-partner selection for a $2B national residential and commercial security provider.
At a logistics technology platform, personally built an in-house integration suite (Python / .NET) that replaced third-party platforms charging transaction fees equal to ~30% of gross revenue — savings that effectively self-funded the engineering organization.
Built a full-stack customer-facing portal surfacing live BC data — orders, invoices, shipments — with SharePoint document integration via Microsoft Graph API.
→ Zero ERP licenses for customers
Led a complete replatform of a Razor Pages monolith to a four-surface modern stack — operator platform, consumer web app, shared .NET API, and mobile app — using AI-agentic workflows with Claude Code.
→ 4× codebase · <8wk delivery
Built a comprehensive Power BI reporting infrastructure in DirectQuery mode against a manufacturing ERP GL — replacing spreadsheet-based month-end reporting with live, reconciled executive dashboards.
→ 0 spreadsheets in close
Built an end-to-end order processing pipeline from Amazon Seller Central and EDI transaction sets into Microsoft Dynamics NAV — automating order intake, inventory updates, and fulfillment acknowledgment.
→ Multi-partner auto processing
Co-founded and architected a flexible SaaS rental booking platform built around a dimension-based asset model — supporting diverse rental verticals with a single unified booking engine.
→ 4 surfaces · multi-tenant
Deployed and configured Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Endpoint, and Entra ID conditional access across 10 manufacturing plants — establishing a baseline security posture from near-zero.
→ 10 sites · SIEM live
Nathan understood the board's language and the engineer's language at the same time. That combination is genuinely rare — and it's what the engagement needed.
VP Operations
PE-backed manufacturing company
We'd had two consultants fail to fix the BC integration before Nathan looked at it. He had a diagnosis and a fix within the first week.
CFO
Mid-market distribution company
Industries served
Typical fit
$50M – $750M
Annual revenue
50 – 2,000
Employees
If the problems above look familiar, the conversation is worth having. We don't pitch — we listen first, then tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.
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We don't pitch — we listen first, then tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.