Technology that works for your organization — and someone who sticks around.
Practical IT strategy, infrastructure, and workplace technology, run with an engineer's precision. No enterprise overhead, no consultant who vanishes after the deck is delivered.
Services
Infrastructure & Networking
Network design, on-prem and hybrid cloud, virtualization (Proxmox, VMware), firewall and security hardening, and disaster-recovery planning for organizations that can't afford downtime.
Workplace Technology Strategy
Hybrid-work tooling, collaboration platform evaluation, IT policy development, and the hard conversations about what your tech stack is actually costing you in productivity and retention.
IT Assessment & Roadmapping
A structured look at where your IT environment is today, where it needs to go, and a prioritized roadmap that maps to your budget — not a vendor's quota.
Fractional IT Leadership
Need a technical voice in the room without the full-time hire? Fractional CTO / IT Director engagements for growing organizations that need senior-level guidance on a consulting basis.
EV & Fleet Technology
Charging infrastructure planning, EV fleet integration, and technology guidance for Colorado organizations making the transition — from policy to plug.
Practical experience.
Direct advice.
I'm Chris Zavala — an IT professional based in Colorado with over a decade of hands-on experience across infrastructure, workplace technology, and organizational IT strategy. I've worked inside organizations ranging from lean 10-person SMBs to enterprise environments with 1,200+ employees, which means I understand both the budget constraints and the political realities.
My background is practical, not theoretical. I've built and maintained the infrastructure, argued for the tooling budget, and managed the conversation with leadership when the technology isn't working the way anyone promised it would. I write about technology and workplace dynamics at blog.chriszavala.com — the same thinking I bring to client engagements.
I take a limited number of engagements at a time so I can give each one real attention. If you need someone who will give you a straight answer and stick around to help implement it, let's talk.
Project Showcase
Homelab-to-Production Network Redesign
Proxmox replacing aging Windows Server, UniFi at the edge with VLAN segmentation for staff, IoT, and guest traffic, plus verified Wasabi cloud backup replacing an unreliable tape rotation — with runbooks the client could actually use.
read the case study →Hybrid Work Policy & Tooling Audit
A full collaboration-stack audit for a mid-sized hybrid org: three overlapping video contracts, two redundant storage platforms, and a shadow-IT Slack workspace. Delivered a consolidation roadmap with a 14-month payback.
read the case study →Large-Scale Imaging Server — Microtek
Replaced a repurposed Norton Ghost workstation with a purpose-built 1U imaging server and 10G network. Result: endpoint mSATA drives saturated over 1G, an assembly-line workflow, and 2,000+ custom PC images per week.
read the case study →iOS Fleet Takeover & MDM Buildout
Absorbed a 50-iPad field deployment with no inventory, no MDM, and a Verizon account full of decommissioning 3G devices. Established DEP enrollment, right-sized the carrier account, and enabled HIPAA-compliant EVV within 8 months.
read the case study →Let's talk about
what you're solving.
Tell me what you're working on. If it's something I can help with, I'll say so. If it's not, I'll tell you that too and point you somewhere useful. No hard sell.