Why I Went Fractional After Twenty-Five Years at Level 3, Microsoft, and Meta

People who land on this site with Meta and Microsoft attached to my name sometimes assume I'm between corporate jobs. I'm not. This is the job I chose.

Twenty-five-plus years running enterprise programs, at Level 3, Microsoft, and Meta, taught me what I'm good at and what I actually want my time to look like. I like being handed a hard, ambiguous problem and driving it to done. I don't miss the parts of corporate life that have nothing to do with that: the politics of holding a single seat, the org-chart gravity that pulls good operators away from the actual work and toward managing the managing.

Two years ago I started running my own AI-directed business alongside everything else, and that changed my thinking more than I expected going in. I'd always assumed program-management discipline, scoping, briefing, holding a quality bar, would transfer to directing a small AI-run operation instead of a large human team. Watching it actually hold up for two straight years settled the question. The judgment is the same. Only the team changed.

That combination is the actual reason fractional and contract work fits me right now. Twenty-five-plus years of enterprise-scale delivery experience, paired with real, current, hands-on experience directing AI-assisted work. Fractional structure lets me point that combination at whatever engagement actually needs it, instead of whatever a single company's org chart happens to need this quarter.

If that combination is what your delivery is missing, let's talk.