Direction
Ongoing technology leadership
A consistent partner for priorities, technical decisions, vendors, and follow-through as your business changes.
Technology leadership and practical execution.
Keep your business moving with technology that works.
When technology decisions and projects keep getting stuck, you need someone who can set direction and carry the work forward. TechKnowligence provides ongoing technology leadership, coordinates with your team and providers, and steps in where hands-on expertise makes a difference.
30 years of professional experience. 17 years leading TechKnowligence.
You shouldn't have to direct every technical detail to keep your business moving.
Your developers need dependable environments. Your operations team needs systems that support the work. Security requirements and vendor decisions need follow-through. TechKnowligence helps connect those needs, establish priorities, and keep the work moving with clear responsibility.
How we help
Set priorities, strengthen the systems your team depends on, and carry important work through to delivery. TechKnowligence combines ongoing leadership with selected technical execution, shaped around the business need and the people already involved.
Dependable systems
Systems and delivery improvements
Strengthen infrastructure, deployment practices, recovery, and workflows so your team can work with greater confidence.
Focused builds
Practical builds and integrations
Build or connect focused tools when an existing product or process change will not adequately solve the problem.
Useful ways to establish direction
You do not need to choose a consulting package before you can explain your need. When risks, priorities, or scope need clarification, a focused assessment or second opinion can be the right next step.
- IT Risk & Roadmap Brief - A focused 2-4 week engagement that gives leadership one shared view of risk and priorities, then a practical direction with concrete next steps.
- Second Opinion on Critical Decisions - Independent technical judgment on architecture, vendors, and security tradeoffs before commitments become expensive to unwind.
Built for organizations where technology and operations meet.
This work fits owners and operations leaders who need experienced technology leadership and reliable follow-through. Some have developers, security leadership, and established providers. Others are smaller, distributed organizations moving quickly. What matters is meaningful technical work, access to decision-makers, and agreement on who is responsible for delivery and ongoing support.
Experience where the work has real consequences.
Rapid deployment
Directed technology and field infrastructure for a nationwide public-health rollout that launched 26 sites in 14 days and expanded to more than 200 locations.
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Security and audit support
Worked alongside a client's CISO and internal developers on operating controls and SOC 2 audit support.
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Reliable systems
Stabilized a fragile legacy application in a resilient virtualized estate - cutting immediate risk and keeping command of timeline and budget.
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More outcomes on the case studies page.
A clear next step, then a practical plan.
Understand the need, agree on responsibilities, then lead the work and leave a clear record of what was done.
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Understand
Understand the business need, current environment, and people involved.
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Agree
Agree on priorities, responsibilities, and the scope of work.
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Lead and verify
Lead the work, verify the result, and leave a clear record of what was done.
Work directly with Donny McIver.
Donny McIver brings 30 years of professional experience, including 17 years owning and leading Alethos, LLC, doing business as TechKnowligence. His work connects technology, security, and operations: helping leadership set priorities, coordinating with technical teams and vendors, and stepping in where hands-on expertise moves the work forward. Clients work directly with Donny throughout the engagement.
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Direct access. Clear responsibilities.
TechKnowligence is an owner-operated practice. You work directly with Donny on priorities, decisions, and the agreed technical work. Before work begins, we discuss responsibilities, system access, documentation, and ongoing support so you understand how the engagement will work.
TechKnowligence is a DBA of Alethos, LLC.
What needs to move forward?
Tell us where technology decisions, systems, or projects are slowing the business. We'll start by understanding the situation and whether TechKnowligence is a fit.
Looking for proof points? Browse 6 case studies.