JHG Consulting — Fractional CTO & Technical Leadership

01 / Where I Go Deep

Two areas of specialization

My background spans two verticals where I've personally built and scaled technology from the ground up — not advised on from the outside.

A — Healthcare

Healthcare Track

RTLS, safety & duress, asset tracking
Clinical operations optimization
Staff and patient workflow visibility

Built on: Bluvision → HID Global exit; HID's Workplace Safety, Duress, and Location Services product lines.

B — Industrial

Industrial Track

Condition monitoring & worker safety
Logistics visibility
Legacy telemetry & plant modernization

Built on: Bluvision/HID industrial IoT deployments; HID's Condition Monitoring product leadership.

02 / Our Capabilities

Fractional CTO advisory, with real operating depth

Lead Capability

Fractional CTO Advisory

Co-own your technical hiring process, design the technical interview bar, and serve as a hands-on sounding board for your Head of Engineering — across DevOps, full-stack, data science, and AI/ML roles. I've scaled an engineering organization from a single founding engineer to 500+ at a VC-backed startup through to acquisition, and have headed M&A for a global technology company's entire solutions portfolio on a $100M+ budget.

Technical hiring & interview design across engineering disciplines
Org design & engineering scaling strategy
Architecture, vendor selection & buy-vs-build decisions
M&A technical due diligence & post-acquisition integration

Leadership Development

Coaching and development for technical and cross-functional leaders.

Strategic Planning

Goal-setting, market and competitive context, and actionable roadmaps for scaling organizations.

Operational Efficiency

Process analysis and optimization to reduce cost and friction.

03 / Your Experience Matters

How we work

01

Diagnose First

Before any architecture change or hire, the first two weeks are purely diagnostic — understanding your team, stack, and constraints so recommendations fit your reality, not a template.

02

Identify Value

We uncover the root causes limiting scale — hiring bar, architecture debt, or org design — and prioritize what actually moves the business.

03

Execute Alongside You

No slide-deck handoff. I co-own interviews, sit in architecture reviews, and stay accountable to outcomes as a standing technical partner.

04 / Our Leadership

Built by someone who has done it, not just advised on it

MJ

Client Account Growth, Year 1

“I've spent the last decade on both sides of the founder journey.”

At Razorfish, I grew a new client account from $300K to $12M in its first year, then went on to lead the firm's $40M global technology account with a team of 100+. At Vibes Media, I founded and built the Mobile Solutions Group into a full-service mobile agency, delivering work for the NFL, PGA, Comcast, Verizon, 3M, Sears, WWE, and Home Depot. Earlier in my career, I led McDonald's R&D initiatives in speed-of-service and in-store technology. Across every one of these, the throughline is the same: take an underbuilt team or account and scale it into something a major brand depends on.

I've applied that same pattern to my own company. I co-founded Bluvision and scaled its engineering organization from the ground up, leading it through acquisition by HID Global in 2016. I stayed on to lead product strategy and M&A for HID's IoT and Healthcare portfolio, including the acquisition of GuardRFID in 2023. As a fractional CTO today, that's the capability I bring to founders and Heads of Engineering, not just technical judgment, but a track record of actually scaling teams and growth, repeatedly, for organizations far bigger than any single startup.

Matthew A. Johnson — Fractional CTO, JHG Consulting

If you'd like to discuss how fractional technical leadership could fit your team, connect with me on LinkedIn — I'm always happy to compare notes with founders and engineering leaders navigating similar scaling decisions.

Patents: Thermal Imaging for Room-Level RTLS · Determining Location Using BLE Signals