Fractional Chief Technology Officer

Chad W.
Coffman

I'm a fractional CTO for PE-backed, multi-site companies — typically $10M to $200M in revenue — working through post-acquisition integration and growth. Over fifteen years I've led technology strategy across energy, healthcare, biotech, distribution, and software, and built engineering teams of ninety-plus across three continents. The job, as I see it, is regulating the rate of change: modernizing what blocks growth without breaking what works, at a pace and spend the board can verify.

I learned flow control on Class V whitewater long before I applied it to a data pipeline.  SEE THE OTHER RÉSUMÉ →

The Ledger
15+
years leading technology strategy and delivery
90+
engineers led, across three continents
$10M
annual IT portfolio owned, end to end
0
downtime cutovers — the standard, not the goal
Selected Results
30× faster,
0% data loss

Blast Motion — Cloud & Data Pipelines

Rebuilt a failing platform serving 100,000+ athletes on AWS managed services. Thirty times the performance, twenty percent lower cost of ownership, and not one byte lost — cut over with zero customer downtime.

Optimization isn't cutting costs. It's building speed and trust at the same time.

6 weeks
→ 3 days

Human Longevity — Operational Velocity

Ran the company's first value-stream map from clinic to delivered result, installed data governance, and directed the EHR modernization. Patients got answers in days, not months.

Velocity isn't working harder. It's removing the hidden friction so the system flows.

+30% / −25%

Cali Bamboo — Marketing ROI

Integrated CRM, web, telephony, and analytics into one attribution system tying ad spend to closed revenue. Thirty percent more conversions on twenty-five percent less spend, inside six months.

Marketing ROI is an architecture problem. Fix the system, and ROI takes care of itself.

Weeks
→ hours

Webroot Software — Quote-to-Cash

Re-architected CPQ, integrated Salesforce with ERP and billing, automated renewals and provisioning. The quote-to-cash cycle collapsed from weeks to hours, and finance saw revenue in real time.

Automate the middle, and everything downstream — speed, accuracy, confidence — accelerates.

30% → 50%
of gross sales

HD Supply — E-Commerce & EDI Integration

Owned the $10M portfolio behind a Fortune 100 distributor's digital channel. Built the EDI backbone connecting suppliers, partners, and post-acquisition business units into one flow.

At scale, e-commerce growth is an integration problem. Automate the connections and the channel scales with you.

Experience

NextEra Energy / Florida Power & Light — Master Architect

2022 — Present

Enterprise cloud, AI, and application modernization for one of the nation's largest utilities. Architected the data strategy and AI foundation behind analytics on the Florida power grid; delivering modernization of 45+ applications; directed data systems for hurricane operations. 15 FTE, 80+ contractors.

Blast Motion — Director, Enterprise Architecture

2018 — 2022

Stabilized and re-architected the cloud platform and AWS data pipeline; delivered the Blast iQ prototype, a personalized AI coaching system that became the company's AI product foundation. Led Cloud, Mobile, QA, and Web teams with strong retention.

Human Longevity — Director, Enterprise Architecture

2017 — 2018

First value-stream map, clinical cycle time from six weeks to three days. Data governance for the Health Intelligence Platform; data lake build; EHR modernization across clinical and research operations.

C3Machines — Owner, Business Technology Consultant

2016 — 2017

Oracle ERP and Fusion Middleware advisory, e-commerce migration, cloud adoption, and process automation for small-to-mid-market enterprises.

Cali Bamboo — IT Director / Solution Architect

2015 — 2016

Unified CRM, web, and telephony data for marketing-to-revenue attribution; automated finance and operations workflows, cutting staff costs ~15%; rebuilt the call-center technology stack.

HD Supply Facilities Maintenance — Manager, IT Client Relations

2011 — 2015

$10M annual IT portfolio; e-commerce from 30% to 50% of gross sales; EDI and post-acquisition integration; PMO standards and Lean automation.

Webroot Software — Manager, IT Projects / Enterprise Architect

2008 — 2011

Global quote-to-cash automation and BI platform; data governance and DevOps automation for Oracle E-Business Suite; provisioning APIs for SaaS and desktop products across three engineering teams.

Deloitte Consulting LLP — Principal Technical Consultant

2006 — 2008

Technical lead and solution architect on Oracle E-Business Suite and SOA engagements; authored Deloitte's Point of View on Service-Oriented Architecture. Consulting Excellence Award, two consecutive years.

Core Competencies
Post-Acquisition Systems Integration Technology & Cloud Transformation Data Architecture & Modern Data Stack AI / ML — Gen AI, LLM, Agentic ERP / EDI & Supply-Chain Integration Value-Stream Mapping & Velocity Vendor & Technology Spend Optimization Engineering Leadership & Retention Board & Stakeholder Communication Marketing-to-Revenue Attribution
Education & Speaking

The College of Wooster — Bachelor of Arts

1994

Oracle OpenWorld & OAUG — Speaker, three white papers

2007 — 2008

Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco (2007, 2008); Oracle Applications User Group Annual Meeting, Denver (2008).

Curriculum Vivendi — A Résumé of the Living

Chad W.
Coffman

Jupiter, FL Chad.Coffman@gmail.com USAPA #78043

Raised with a basketball in one hand and a golf club in the other. Fifteen years a swimmer. Then rivers. Then bikes, then mountains, then the long trail. Now the surf break and the pickleball court. The disciplines change. The discipline doesn't.

Everything on this page taught me something I later billed for.  BACK TO THE WORK →

The Ledger
~11,000 mi
swum — fifteen years of racing
10,000+ mi
on the bike, two seasons racing
~2,000 mi
on foot, with a pack on my back
13 seasons
paddling Class V+ whitewater
18 seasons
on skis — alpine, telemark, nordic
35+ yrs
of strength and aerobic training — and more recovery cycles than I care to count
The Chapters

Pickleball

2019 — Present

5.0 skill rating. Tournament player. The newest discipline, taken as seriously as the oldest.

USAPA member #78043

Whitewater

1994 — 2006

Thirteen seasons of Class V+. Big water and creek descents across the Southeast, the Rockies, the West, and Europe, with a world-class paddling peer group. Downriver races on Gore Canyon of the Colorado and Fish Creek in Steamboat. Swiftwater safety trained at the Nantahala Outdoor Center.

Sponsored — Wildwasser Sport / Prijon Kayaks

The Bike

1999 — 2006

Category 3 road racing license, USCF and Colorado Cycling Association. Thirty-five hundred miles a year on the race bike, four consecutive years. Commuted by bike through five Colorado winters. Freeride mountain biker.

Snow

1994 — Present

Expert telemark and alpine. Accomplished nordic, classic and skate. Two seasons given to snowboarding. Extensive backcountry experience. Vail, Snowbird, Alta, Crested Butte, Breckenridge.

The Trail

1992 — Present

Appalachian Trail thru-hike, 1996 — Georgia to Maine, started mid-April. Overnight trips on foot, bike, skis, and kayak throughout the United States and Europe.

Sponsored — Salomon boots / Smartwool socks

Water, First

1978 — 1993

Swimming, year-round, from age seven to twenty-one. Division III varsity at The College of Wooster. Captain in high school and in college. School records: the individual 200 freestyle in high school; the 200, 400, and 800 freestyle relays in college.

Also in Rotation
Surfing Mountaineering Rock Climbing Basketball Golf Stand-Up Paddling Squash Racquetball