Technology strategy + roadmaps
Turn business priorities into a realistic technology plan with clear sequencing, investment priorities, and next steps.
- Current-state review
- Prioritization and roadmaps
- Risk and lifecycle planning
Technology consulting + fractional IT leadership
Better technology decisions.
Without the full-time overhead.
When a business needs experienced technology leadership—not another product pitch—EffingTech helps bring clarity to strategy, projects, vendors, operations, and the decisions that connect technology to the business.
Strategy + roadmapsProject leadershipVendor guidance
Technology LeadershipEffingTech consulting workspacePRACTICALWhat experience brings to the tableDirection, structure, and an independent point of view.
01Understand the business needStart with the outcome before choosing the technology.✓
02Build a workable planPriorities, ownership, risk, timing, and realistic next steps.✓
03Guide executionCoordinate internal teams, vendors, and project decisions.✓
04Leave things better organizedDocumentation, process, accountability, and a clearer path forward.✓
Experience before products
Technology does not need to be complicated to be strategic.
EffingTech consulting is led by Mel Hirtzel, whose career spans nearly three decades of hands-on support, service management, infrastructure, enterprise IT leadership, project management, and consulting across healthcare, government, manufacturing, retail, MSP, and large enterprise environments.
The value is not having every answer memorized. It is knowing how to ask the right questions, spot risk early, separate a real requirement from a shiny feature, and help a business move from uncertainty to a practical decision.
Business firstTechnology decisions should support how the organization actually works.
Independent guidanceEvaluate options around the need—not around a vendor quota.
Hands-on enough to be usefulStrategy is better when it understands what implementation really takes.
Consulting capabilities
Help where leadership and technology overlap.
Engagements can be focused on one decision or project, or provide ongoing fractional leadership where a business needs senior-level guidance without a full-time IT executive.
Fractional IT leadership
Senior technology guidance for organizations that need direction, coordination, and accountability without hiring a full-time IT leader.
- Leadership and planning
- Budget and vendor oversight
- Business / technology alignment
Project + modernization leadership
Bring structure to upgrades, migrations, implementations, and cross-functional projects that cannot afford to drift.
- Project definition and planning
- Vendor and stakeholder coordination
- Risk, schedule, and delivery oversight
Vendor + solution evaluation
Compare products, proposals, and providers from the business side and the technical side before making a commitment.
- Requirements and fit
- Proposal and scope review
- Contract / vendor discussion support
IT operations + service management
Improve how support, incidents, changes, documentation, and service ownership work behind the scenes.
- Service desk and workflow review
- ITIL-informed process improvement
- Documentation and operating standards
Cloud + infrastructure planning
Plan practical modernization around Microsoft 365, servers, networks, security, resilience, and distributed work.
- Infrastructure lifecycle planning
- Microsoft 365 / cloud direction
- Migration and continuity planning
Where this fits
You may not need an IT department. You may just need someone who knows what questions to ask.
Technology consulting is a good fit when an important project needs leadership, a vendor decision feels one-sided, the current environment has grown without a plan, or business leadership needs an experienced technology perspective at the table.
Consulting—not an MSP contract.
EffingTech focuses on scoped advisory work, projects, and technology leadership. We are not positioning this as 24/7 managed IT, general-purpose help desk outsourcing, or a replacement for the support providers a business may already use.
A major technology project needs an experienced ownerLeadership needs a practical second opinion before buyingMultiple vendors need someone representing the businessIT processes or documentation have grown inconsistentA business needs senior guidance, but not a full-time IT executiveA modernization effort needs structure and a realistic roadmap
Start with the problem
Have a technology decision that deserves more than a sales pitch?
Tell us what the business is trying to accomplish, where things stand today, and what is getting in the way. We can start with a conversation and decide whether a focused consulting engagement makes sense.