27 YEARS IN THE FIELD

Technology plans that hold up five years from now, not five months.

Most IT advice solves this quarter's problem. I build roadmaps that scale with your business, because I have spent three decades watching what happens when technology decisions outlast the people who made them.

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1996
Day One
PC support for a global manufacturer, three plants, one contractor learning fast.
2004
550+ Workstations
Built and ran the network for a physician group, Exchange, Citrix, Cisco, end to end.
2007
25 → 1,000+
Took a hospital from 25 desktops and 3 servers to over 1,000 connected devices across 5 locations.
2015
10GbE Backbone
Rebuilt the network fabric on fiber, low latency in and out, room for voice and video.
2025
Months, Not Days
Stepped into a demoralized IT team mid merger and went from nightly fire drills to none.
NEXT
Your Roadmap
Wherever your business is headed, the plan should already know how to get there.
WHAT I DO

Consulting built around where you are going, not just what is broken today.

Every engagement starts with the same question: what does this business need to be capable of in five years, and what has to be true about the technology underneath it to get there.

01

5-Year Technology Roadmaps

A staged plan that ties infrastructure, software, and budget decisions to your actual business goals, built so each year's spend sets up the next.

02

Infrastructure & Network Design

Network, server, storage, and voice architecture that grows cleanly, from a handful of desktops to a multi-site environment, without painful rebuilds.

03

EHR & Systems Transitions

Planning and leading the move between major systems, EHR included, with the operational and clinical side accounted for, not just the data migration.

04

IT Team Leadership & Turnaround

Stabilizing an understaffed or low morale IT function, rebuilding trust with end users, and putting processes in place that stop the after hours fire drills.

05

Security & Compliance Review

A practical look at where your environment stands against HIPAA and general security baselines, with a prioritized list of what to fix first.

06

Fractional / Advisory IT Leadership

Ongoing strategic guidance for businesses that need senior IT judgment on a regular basis, without a full time executive hire.

THE PERSON BEHIND THE PLAN

I have built the thing I am now planning for you.

I am Jeremy Gruen. For 27 years I have led IT, network, and systems work, almost entirely in healthcare, where the cost of a bad technology decision shows up in patient care, not just a spreadsheet.

I spent 18 years as Director of IT at a hospital, growing its infrastructure from 25 desktops and 3 servers to over 1,000 connected devices across 5 locations, while leading two EHR transitions and keeping the lights on for everything from PACS to phone systems.

Today I lead IT, Informatics, and Health Information Management for a medical group navigating a merger. I inherited a team that was exhausted and under trusted, and turned nightly after hours emergencies into a team that runs quietly, because the plan underneath it finally made sense.

That is the work. Not chasing the newest platform, but building a technology plan sturdy enough that the people running it stop having to put out fires.

27
Years in network, systems, and voice architecture
1,000+
Connected devices managed across 5 locations
3
EHR / major systems transitions led
50+
Client networks supported in consulting work
HOW AN ENGAGEMENT WORKS

A plan only works if someone has actually walked the road before.

Four stages, no padding. The goal at every step is a plan you could hand to someone else and have them execute it correctly.

STEP 1

Listen and assess

A direct look at your current environment, your team, and your actual business goals, not just a checklist audit of what hardware you own.

STEP 2

Draft the roadmap

A staged, year by year plan that sequences infrastructure, software, staffing, and budget so each phase sets up the next instead of competing with it.

STEP 3

Review and pressure test

We walk through the plan together, stress test it against budget reality and growth scenarios, and adjust before anything gets built.

STEP 4

Support execution

Available as advisor or hands on lead through implementation, so the plan that looked good on paper actually survives contact with reality.

Stop replanning the same problem every year.

Let's build a roadmap your business can actually grow into.

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GET IN TOUCH

Tell me where the business is headed.

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