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Olathe, Kansas · Since 2010

IT consulting, migrations,
and software.

I'm Alex Tafoya. I plan and run the IT projects that have to go right the first time, and I build tools along the way.

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19+
Years consulting
2007
Consulting since
24/7
Cutover coverage
1 day
Typical reply time
01Consulting

Bring me the problem

IT Consulting

A senior second opinion on whatever is on your plate: planning a project, choosing a vendor, untangling an environment nobody fully understands, or deciding what to fix first.

How consulting works →
  • Project planning, scoping and realistic estimates
  • Vendor, platform and licensing decisions without a sales agenda
  • Assessments of an environment's current state, risks and priorities
  • Hands-on troubleshooting when something broke and nobody knows why
  • A technical voice in the room with vendors, auditors and leadership
02Specific services

Infrastructure work, end to end

Most engagements touch two or three of these.

  1. 01 Data Migrations Planning and execution for file, storage, database, and application data migrations — with validation, reconciliation, and a rollback path. →
  2. 02 Virtual Desktops & Citrix Design, migration and rescue work for Citrix Virtual App and Desktop environments — including image management and profile strategy. →
  3. 03 Document Imaging Getting documents out of an old or unsupported imaging system and into a format the new one will actually ingest — images, index data and all. →
  4. 04 Core Conversions Independent, bank-side support through a core system conversion — data validation, balancing, and someone whose only interest is your outcome. →
  5. 05 Database Programming Import and export routines, conversions between systems that were never designed to talk, and the recurring data jobs your team runs by hand. →
  6. 06 Data Aggregation Pulling data out of systems that don't talk to each other and combining it into one reporting database — kept current automatically, not rebuilt by hand. →
  7. 07 Automation PowerShell, Python and Ansible automation for provisioning, onboarding, reporting and the repetitive work quietly consuming your team's week. →

All services, engagement models and how I work →

03How it runs

A predictable shape to every engagement

Step 1

Discovery

A working session and a look at the real environment — not a questionnaire. I map sources, targets, dependencies, and the constraints nobody wrote down.

Step 2

Plan & pilot

A written migration plan with a rollback path, then a pilot batch against real data so the estimates come from measurements instead of optimism.

Step 3

Cutover

Runbook-driven execution in the agreed window, with validation gates and a clear go/no-go call at each one.

Step 4

Handover

Documentation your team can actually operate from, plus a hypercare period so the first week after go-live isn't a surprise.

04Apps

Latest releases

  1. Snaggle Greenshot-style screenshots, native on the Mac A native macOS screenshot tool modelled on Greenshot for Windows: capture a region, window or screen with a hotkey, mark it up in… v1 macOS Free →

All apps →

05About
  1. AAbout me Background, resume, and what I do off the clock.→
  2. BResume IT consultant — conversions, migrations, databases, VDI and automation→
Kansas City metro

Based in Olathe, working across the KC metro. For clients across Johnson County and the Kansas City metro, being on site for a cutover weekend is a drive, not a flight. Remote everywhere else. More →

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Have a project in mind?

Send the source, the target and the downtime you can tolerate. You'll get an honest read on scope.

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