Experienced IT operations leadership for companies navigating growth, complexity, and change.
Randy Blackmon
Managing Partner, Timberline Technology Partners
Consulting · Advisory · Fractional Leadership
Experienced IT operations leadership for companies navigating growth, complexity, and change.
Randy Blackmon
Managing Partner, Timberline Technology Partners
Consulting · Advisory · Fractional Leadership
Timberline Technology Partners provides senior IT operations leadership to companies that need experienced outside perspective on the health and maturity of their technology environments. Our focus is improving reliability, predictability, and readiness for growth.
Founded by Randy Blackmon, a career IT executive with more than 25 years of experience leading enterprise infrastructure, end-user services, incident response, and risk management at organizations including Coca-Cola, Morgan Stanley, SunTrust, Voya Financial, Corning, and Candescent.
Whether you need a fractional CTO, an operational assessment, or a partner to help you build the IT foundation for your next phase of growth, Timberline brings enterprise-grade experience without the enterprise overhead.
You can’t manage what you can’t see. We evaluate your monitoring landscape, close coverage gaps, and build the KPIs and dashboards that give leadership clear line of sight into system health and operational performance.
When things break, how your team responds defines your reputation. We bring the discipline: severity frameworks, escalation paths, communications protocols, and post-incident review processes that turn fire drills into structured operations.
Patching gaps, configuration drift, expired certificates. These are the quiet risks that cause loud outages. We assess the current state, identify what’s overdue, and build a prioritized plan to reduce risk without overwhelming your team or budget.
Cloud spend can grow faster than the business it supports. We bring clarity to your Azure or AWS environment through cost allocation, resource governance, and capacity planning, so leadership can connect spend to value with confidence.
From access management to SOC2 readiness, we assess your security posture and compliance gaps with the pragmatism of someone who’s operated in regulated industries, including financial services, insurance, and manufacturing, for over two decades.
The right people in the right roles matter more than tools. We evaluate your IT team’s structure, skills, and capacity against what the business actually needs, then recommend the adjustments that set you up for the next phase of growth.
AI adoption is happening in every organization, whether leadership knows it or not. We help you understand how your teams are using AI tools today, evaluate the risks around ungoverned usage, and build the policies and vendor relationships that keep adoption safe, productive, and aligned with business goals.
Not every company needs a custom model. Most need help understanding what generative AI can do for their operations today, how to adopt the right tools effectively across their workforce, and how to measure whether the investment is delivering real value.
Not every company needs a full-time CTO or VP of Infrastructure, but every company needs the thinking. We step in as interim technology leaders, bringing 25 years of enterprise experience to the decisions that matter most.
Vendor relationships are partnerships, not transactions. With experience negotiating and managing $500M+ in outsourcing contracts, we bring the perspective to rationalize your vendor landscape, optimize contracts, and hold partners accountable.