AI Speaking & Consulting

AI from strategy to implementation to support

Most organizations have AI ideas. Far fewer have AI in daily use. Chris helps leadership teams choose the right first use case, protect their data, and get to production, then keep it running.

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The approach

One path, three stages, no hand-offs into the void

Taking a customer from AI strategy all the way to implementation and ongoing support is rare. It is the model Chris built and led at vTECH io.

Strategy

Executive alignment, an honest readiness assessment, and a short list of use cases ranked by ROI, risk, and data sensitivity.

Implementation

A scoped pilot with clear success metrics, secure and on-premises options where needed, and a defined path from pilot to production.

Support

Governance, training, and an operating model so AI keeps delivering after go-live, plus a roadmap for the next use case.

Offerings

Where to start

AI Readiness & Roadmap

A focused assessment of leadership alignment, data, security, people, and support, ending in a prioritized 90-day plan and a 12-month roadmap.

Executive workshop
Use-case scoring by ROI and risk
Roadmap and budget ranges

AI Adoption & Change Leadership

AI succeeds or fails on people. Chris helps leaders set ownership, train teams, and measure adoption so tools actually get used.

Leadership team sessions
Workforce upskilling plan
Adoption metrics

Secure & Private AI

For organizations with sensitive data: governance and guardrails, and on-premises or private AI options that keep data in your control.

Governance & security pillar
Data-handling guardrails
On-premises options

AI Go-to-Market for Tech Providers

For MSPs, VARs, and solution providers: packaging, vendor and distributor funding, line-card design, and a repeatable sales motion for AI.

Offer packaging
Vendor programs & MDF
Pipeline from demos

AI for Revenue Teams

Practical AI in sales and operations: where it saves time, where it creates pipeline, and how to measure the return.

Workflow automation ideas
ROI measurement
Pairing AI with security

Keynotes & Workshops

Talks and hands-on sessions for associations, conferences, and leadership retreats.

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Featured case study · Intel

City of Daytona Beach: AI for public records, from pilot to production

Chris led the vTECH io team that worked with Iternal Technologies and the City of Daytona Beach to deploy an AI-powered public-records platform on Intel Xeon 6 processors. Intel published the results as a customer case study.

Read the Intel case study

78xaccuracy improvement reported in Intel’s case study

593pages per minute, at peak processing

Strategy → Production → SupportA real public-sector deployment, not a demo

Proof point · U.S. Air Force, 2000–2001

Digital transformation before it had a name

As a first lieutenant at Ogden Air Logistics Center (Air Force Materiel Command), Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Chris saw that Airman’s Manual training still ran on printed manuals and in-person test proctors. On his own initiative, beyond his primary job, he put together a team and built a web-based training and testing site.

80+bases using it by early 2001

40,000+users by early 2002

$5M+printing costs avoided at 100 bases worldwide

The site was named an Air Force-level Best Practice. Featured on Air Force Link, in Air Force magazine and by Air Force public affairs, it removed the need to print the manual and to staff test proctors at every base, and saved the Air Force millions. It’s the same pattern he applies to AI today: replace a manual process everyone has accepted, prove it works, then scale it.

Figures from Chris’s Air Force Officer Performance Reports (2001 and 2002).

“Selected as Best Practice, featured on Air Force Link, now used by 80+ bases, lauded by AFMC/CC!”
Officer Performance Report, 2001, Ogden Air Logistics Center. AFMC/CC is the commander of Air Force Materiel Command.

Track record

The AI practice Chris built at vTECH io

As Chief Revenue Officer and Partner at vTECH io, a Florida IT managed services provider and Dell Platinum Partner serving 2,000+ customers since 1997, Chris launched a repeatable AI solutions practice.

$5–6MAI revenue in year one

300%year-over-year AI PC growth

0net-new data-science hires needed

Four sellable pillars: Governance & Security, End-User Productivity, Internal Operations, and Customer Experience.
Bundled secure local AI with AI PC sales; post-delivery demos turned into pipeline, including a 600-hour custom AI engagement.
Automated quoting for a national specialty insurer handling about 30,000 quote requests a year.
Orchestrated Dell, Intel, NVIDIA, Microsoft Copilot, Airgap AI / Iternal, and TD SYNNEX Destination AI to deliver production AI.
vTECH io’s AI work is featured in two books by John Byron Hanby IV, including a dedicated chapter in AI Partner Blueprint.

Learn more: vTECH io featured AI provider · AI go-to-market presentation

Making AI Practical: a vTECH io AI event. Watch on YouTube

Signature talks

Three AI talks, built on real deployments

Government · city, county, IT, clerks, finance

From AI Strategy to Support: What Actually Works in Local Government

Most public agencies have an AI policy, but few have AI in production. This session follows a real deployment: the City of Daytona Beach’s AI-powered public-records platform, built with Iternal Technologies and vTECH io on Intel Xeon 6 processors. Intel’s published case study reports a 78x accuracy improvement and processing of up to 593 pages per minute. Chris walks through choosing a first use case, keeping sensitive data on-premises, procurement and budget realities, the pilot-to-production path, and the support model after go-live. Attendees leave with a practical checklist to take one AI project from approval to daily use.

MSP, channel, sales, and business audiences

Go-to-Market in the Age of AI

Almost every technology provider says it “does AI.” Very few have a repeatable way to sell it, deliver it, and get paid for it. Chris shares how the AI solutions practice he led at vTECH io produced $5–6M in AI revenue in its first year. The playbook includes bundling private AI with AI PCs, using vendor and distributor programs (TD SYNNEX Destination AI, Intel, Dell), and moving customers from workshops to funded pilots and then to production. Built for leaders who need pipeline, not hype.

Executive, CIO, HR, and association audiences

Building an AI-Ready Organization

AI projects rarely fail on technology. They fail on readiness: unclear ownership, messy data, untrained people, and no plan for support. Drawing on 31 years as an Air Force officer and acquisition program manager and his work as an executive at a 2,000-customer IT provider, Chris lays out a practical readiness framework: leadership alignment, data governance, security and on-premises options, workforce upskilling, and the metrics that show value within the first year. Closes with a 90-day action plan any organization can start next quarter.

AI Summit: full talk. Watch on YouTube

Grab Coffee With Me, Ep. 7: Chris on AI and leadership. Watch on YouTube

Find your first (or next) AI win

A short conversation is enough to tell whether a readiness assessment, a roadmap, or a workshop is the right next step.

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