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Jon BrydenFractional CTO

Columbus, Ohio

Start with one problem.

Bring me the process that's eating your week, or the technology function nobody fully owns. I fix it, prove the value, and we build from there.

No pitch. You'll leave knowing how I'd tackle it, whether or not we work together.

Who it's for
Specialty healthcare, behavioral health, and credentialing organizations
Where you are
Outgrown founder-era technology, not ready for a full-time CTO
First engagement
A $1,500 operating model review or a $5,000 sprint, 2 to 3 weeks
Ongoing work
Leadership scoped to what you need me to own

Where I get called in

Sound familiar?

  • Your team lives in spreadsheets.

    Critical work depends on manual copying, checking, and chasing.

  • Your systems don't talk to each other.

    People move data between tools by hand, and reporting takes days.

  • You pay an MSP, and your team still does the work.

    Onboarding, licensing, and support tickets keep landing back on your staff.

  • Your board asks for a technology plan and nobody can write it.

    The roadmap, the budget, and the security answers live in people's heads, not on paper.

  • Security and compliance questions have no owner.

    A customer or partner asks about SOC 2, HIPAA, or continuity, and nobody has a clear answer.

  • Growth is outrunning your systems.

    New sites, states, or customers mean more manual work, not more capacity.

  • If one of these is yours, that's the conversation.

    Start there

Proof

Four things worth knowing before you call.

Most of my current work is with founder-led healthcare, EMS, and credentialing operations. The same pattern applies across operationally complex SMBs.

Ran the technology function

Owned a $4.5M technology budget, including a 20-person team. Technology leadership for a mission-critical national platform serving 600,000 clinicians. Redesigned the IT support model, cutting cost about 40% and raising satisfaction from about 55% to 95%. Led PCI compliance and operated to NIST and HIPAA requirements.

Brought AI into a regulated national organization

Embedded AI across requirements, prototyping, development, testing, and code review under written governance, compressing feature discovery from weeks to days. Built a Microsoft Copilot knowledge library, led adoption across the organization, and set the governance behind it: a written policy and a review committee.

Run lean by design, as an owner

Co-founded a multi-channel eCommerce business and scaled it past $10M in annual revenue on a team of seven, most of them part-time, by automating everything that did not need a person. I owned the operations, the systems, and the P&L, so I read cost and risk the way an owner does.

Delivering right now, hands-on

Currently embedded with a founder-led specialty healthcare provider. We started by replacing a CEO-run manual process with an automated operating system, and the work is now moving toward a shared knowledge library and the system architecture behind broader automation and AI. I am also starting an operational sprint for a home care provider, connecting its new payroll and HR system to its care management platform so employee records stay in step without anyone re-keying them. Co-founder and fractional CTO of EMS Conferences.

Case study

Replacing a CEO-run spreadsheet process with an automated shipping operating system

A multi-location, founder-led specialty healthcare provider ran a manual kit-shipping operation out of spreadsheets, with the CEO personally holding it together every week. We replaced it with a shipping operating system built to run without them.

4 hrs/wk

CEO time before

Hands on the process

~15 min/wk

CEO time after

Oversight only

We’re not only saving time by automating. We’re now receiving data automatically that would have been too costly to obtain manually. We have a better process that gives us more insight into the operations.

CEO, multi-location specialty healthcare organization

Ready to start with yours?

Book 15 minutes, or send me the process that's costing you time, capacity, or attention. A sentence is enough.