Locked-On Technology provides strategic IT planning, system design, project management, and hands-on technical expertise for businesses, nonprofits, and organizations — in Reno, across the U.S., and worldwide.
Locked-On is strongest where technology, operations and management meet: strategic planning, system design, project leadership, systems administration and business-process improvement — with modern cloud and Microsoft 365 capability available when the project calls for it.
Translate organizational goals into practical technology roadmaps, priorities, budgets and operating plans that can actually be implemented and sustained.
Design systems around business requirements, integration needs, data, users, reliability and long-term supportability — not around a single product.
Leadership developed across hundreds of technology projects, from focused upgrades and conversions to complex multi-year implementations.
Hands-on administration and troubleshooting across the systems, applications and infrastructure that support everyday operations.
Improve the way work actually flows before automating it — connecting people, process, applications and data.
Database, reporting and GIS capabilities for organizations that depend on operational data and integrated information systems.
Design, improve and integrate practical web and software solutions when technology needs extend beyond packaged applications.
Add experienced technical or management capability without committing to a permanent full-time IT position.
Modern Microsoft and cloud capability as part of a broader technology practice — useful for migrations, modernization, identity and secure administration.
Locked-On can work at both levels: define the technology direction and system design, then lead the project through implementation, conversion, deployment and stabilization.
Controlled transitions of mail, calendars, contacts, files, identities and domains, backed by the broader planning and systems experience needed to fit cloud services into the whole organization.
Locked-On combines management depth, system-design experience and hands-on implementation across government, school districts, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, retail, nonprofits and smaller organizations.
Discuss a project →Planning, design and leadership across hundreds of projects ranging from focused technical improvements to large, multi-year organization-wide implementations.
Experience coordinating deployment of thousands of remote workstations during COVID-era operational changes.
Planning and executing transitions between business platforms while managing data, workflows, users and continuity.
Database administration, tune-ups, reporting and practical data support for operational systems.
Website development and new software projects delivered using iterative, waterfall, Agile and blended lifecycle approaches.
Additional capability through experienced partners in mobile app development, GIS, technical/end-user support and mobile device management.
The goal is not to add technology for its own sake. The goal is a secure, understandable environment that supports the way the organization needs to operate.
Inventory systems, users, pain points, dependencies, risks and business requirements.
Prioritize changes, architecture, migration sequence, security, costs and responsibilities.
Configure, migrate, integrate, test and communicate with minimum disruption.
Validate, train, document, monitor and refine the environment after cutover.
Dan brings decades of management and technology experience across both large and small organizations, with hundreds of projects spanning strategic planning, system design, project management, business-process work, budgeting, systems administration and technical implementation.
The emphasis is on giving small and mid-size organizations access to the kind of planning, security, structure and technology capability normally associated with much larger IT departments.
Credentials represented on the existing Locked-On site include:
Education: BA in Business Management, MBA with an Information Technology concentration, and doctoral coursework in Systems Engineering and Design, plus continuing management, security and technology study.
Talk with Locked-On Technology about strategic planning, system design, project management, system administration, business process, database/GIS/web work, Microsoft 365, cloud or contract IT support.