Technology executive · Fractional CIO · Entrepreneur
Technology leadership · Business transformation · Operations · Marketing
I align technology, operations, marketing, and business strategy to solve complex problems, strengthen organizations, and create measurable results.
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Executive Profile
I am a technology executive, fractional CIO, entrepreneur, and business advisor with more than three decades of experience spanning enterprise infrastructure, telecommunications, digital transformation, cybersecurity, marketing, customer experience, vendor management, and multi-location operations.
My career has included leadership roles with AT&T, Adelphia Communications, Alltel, Telesystem, Marco's Pizza, Toledo Consulting, and Toledo Retail. I have led technical teams, advised ownership and executive leadership, negotiated complex vendor relationships, directed enterprise implementations, improved customer and operational performance, and built businesses and technology platforms from the ground up.
I am most effective where technology and business strategy intersect: translating complex issues into practical decisions, aligning investments with organizational goals, and leading execution from strategy through implementation.
Enterprise Leadership
At Adelphia Communications, I recruited, trained, and managed a regional engineering organization responsible for backbone infrastructure, ISP operations, peering points, transport systems, field assets, and service continuity across eight states. The organization supported a network serving millions of cable-modem customers.
At AT&T, my responsibilities expanded from enterprise technical sales into consumer sales strategy, customer experience, alternate retail channels, product launch, and marketing. I supported enterprise accounts, exceeded annual sales quota, helped shape Ohio market strategy for the early U-verse rollout, and worked across retail, direct, online, and alternate sales channels.
Enterprise networks · Regional operations · Sales strategy · Customer experience · Go-to-market execution
Technology Director & Trusted Advisor
Through Toledo Consulting, I have served for years as a contract Technology Director supporting a multi-location restaurant organization. My work spans infrastructure, restaurant systems, point-of-sale, payment technologies, cybersecurity, PCI considerations, vendor management, incident response, technology standards, implementation planning, and operational improvement.
I work directly with ownership, operations, administration, vendors, and service providers to ensure that technology decisions support business continuity, customer experience, growth, and day-to-day execution.
Strategic leadership · Vendor management · Cybersecurity · Operational resilience
Measured Results
Across consulting, enterprise, and operational roles, I have focused on measurable improvements in cost, reliability, customer experience, process efficiency, revenue, and risk reduction.
Toledo Consulting
Founded in 2003, Toledo Consulting helps organizations align technology, operations, marketing, automation, cybersecurity, data, and business strategy. I work directly with business owners, executives, and leadership teams to identify priorities, solve operational problems, modernize systems, improve vendor performance, and guide implementation.
My approach combines executive-level judgment with the ability to work through the technical, financial, operational, and organizational details required to deliver results.
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Founder & Platform Builder
Toledo Retail began as an entrepreneurial idea in 2004 and has evolved into a modern local business discovery, marketing, jobs, ecommerce, analytics, and community platform.
As founder, I have led the business concept, product strategy, platform design, software development, database architecture, payment integration, analytics, search optimization, customer experience, mobile application, hosting, security, and ongoing expansion.
Toledo Retail demonstrates the full scope of my work: identifying an opportunity, defining the business model, building the technology, creating the brand, developing the operating processes, and continuing to improve the product through direct market feedback.
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Leadership Forged at Sea
Serving aboard USS Mitscher placed me in a combat-ready environment where accountability, teamwork, technical proficiency, and disciplined execution were essential. Every system, decision, and individual contributed to the readiness and safety of the ship.
As an Interior Communications Electrician, I supported shipboard systems that connected people, equipment, and operations. That experience reinforced leadership principles that continue to guide my work today: understand the whole system, prepare thoroughly, communicate clearly, solve problems under pressure, and remain accountable for the outcome.
Mission readiness · Technical accountability · Teamwork · Disciplined execution
Surface Search & Rescue
I completed U.S. Navy Surface Search and Rescue Swimmer training and served in that role aboard USS Mitscher. The training demanded physical endurance, sound judgment, teamwork, and the ability to remain composed in difficult conditions.
The graduation photograph represents more than completing a demanding course. It reflects the shared effort, trust, preparation, and personal responsibility required to become part of a team expected to respond when lives may depend on its performance.
U.S. Navy · Search and rescue · Readiness · Trust under pressure
Critical Infrastructure
My work with InfraGard, business continuity, emergency communications, cybersecurity, and tabletop exercises broadened my perspective on organizational risk. It reinforced the importance of continuity planning, cross-functional coordination, executive communication, incident response, and recovery.
Selected Archive
Articles, publications, case studies, and milestones documenting a career across technology, leadership, service, marketing, operations, and entrepreneurship.
The Toledo Business Journal documented the original Toledo Retail launch and the early vision for a local online advertising and business discovery platform.
Source: Toledo Business Journal · Tech Watch
Cyber Attack Continuum Tabletop Exercise
InfraGard Magazine documented the Toledo chapter's ransomware preparedness tabletop exercise and Kevin Cox's role explaining readiness, response, and recovery.
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The 2019 InfraGard Leadership Members Alliance Academy brought chapter leaders from across the country to the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, for leadership development, collaboration, and critical-infrastructure briefings.
FBI Academy · Quantico, Virginia · November 2019
Ideas & Perspective
I write about practical ways leaders can use technology, improve operations, strengthen cybersecurity, adopt AI, make better business decisions, and build stronger organizations.
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