Experienced IT operations leadership for companies navigating growth, complexity, and change. A steady guide through uncertain terrain.
Randy Blackmon
Managing Partner, Timberline Technology Partners
Consulting · Advisory · Fractional Leadership
Experienced IT operations leadership for companies navigating growth, complexity, and change. A steady guide through uncertain terrain.
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.
One of the things we do best is bridge the gap between technical teams and the business. We take complex infrastructure, security, and operational realities and translate them into clear, actionable language for executives, board members, and regulators. Whether it is a status update for the C-suite or a narrative for a banking audit, we make sure the people making decisions understand what the technology team is actually telling them.
The name Timberline reflects how we work: clear-eyed about the terrain, prepared for what is ahead, and steady when conditions change.
You can’t navigate 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 hidden hazards 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, AWS, or Google Cloud environment through cost allocation, resource governance, and capacity planning, so leadership can connect spend to value with confidence.
Not every company needs a full-time CTO or VP of Infrastructure, but every company needs a steady hand on the trail. We step in as interim technology leaders, bringing 25 years of enterprise experience to the decisions that matter most.
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.
With years of risk management experience in banking and financial services, including direct engagement with regulators and auditors, we assess your security posture and compliance gaps with the perspective of someone who has been on the other side of the audit table. SOC2 readiness, risk frameworks, and controls that hold up to scrutiny.
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.
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.
Randy is a Georgia Tech graduate with roots in Atlanta and a career that has taken him around the world, including assignments in London and South Africa. When he is not solving business problems with technology, you will find him on a trail in the Colorado Rockies, on a bike ride through the North Georgia hills, or on a golf course somewhere in between.
The same curiosity that drives him to explore new places is the same curiosity he brings to every engagement. Finding the right path, not the obvious one, is a mindset that shapes everything Timberline does.
