Strengthen your technology organization. Move important work forward.
Sea Hawk works with CEOs and technology leaders to improve delivery, shape technology strategy, and carry complex change into execution.We bring calm and clarity to complicated situations, connecting the business, technical, and people sides to help you decide what needs to happen and get it done.Every engagement is led by Joe Strnad, with experienced specialists brought in as the work requires.
Where We Can Help
Understand your technology organization and set its direction
You’re taking on a new role, planning for growth, or asking whether your team and systems can support what comes next. We help you assess where things stand, identify the capabilities and investments that matter, and build a practical roadmap grounded in your business priorities.
Improve delivery and how the team works
Important work keeps slipping, priorities compete, or daily demands leave little room for progress. We help you understand what is affecting delivery and work alongside your leaders and teams to improve planning, ownership, coordination, and execution.
Find worthwhile ways to use AI
You want to improve operations, streamline workflows, or equip employees with better tools. We help you evaluate opportunities in the context of your systems, data, controls, and team capabilities, choose achievable starting points, and move from ideas into implementation.
Move modernization and transformation forward
A major effort needs clearer decisions, manageable scope, or a workable sequence. We help you connect business objectives with architecture, vendor, organizational, and investment choices, then work alongside your team to carry the effort forward.
Strengthen leadership and decision-making
Responsibilities overlap, decisions stall, or the organization has outgrown its working practices. We help clarify roles, develop leadership capabilities, and establish governance that supports effective decisions, coordination, and delivery.
How We Work
An engagement can begin with a focused assessment, an important decision, or an initiative that needs experienced leadership. We agree on the outcomes, scope, and working arrangement that fit your situation.
Assessment and Roadmap
Build a shared understanding of your organization, systems, and priorities. Identify what needs attention, the decisions ahead, and a practical sequence for improvement that reflects your team’s capacity.
Executive Advisory and Leadership Support
Work through consequential decisions with an experienced advisor who connects strategic intent to technical and organizational realities. Support can include coaching technology leaders and helping the leadership team resolve competing priorities.
Implementation and Transformation Support
Bring experienced leadership alongside your team to organize the work, resolve barriers, coordinate contributors, and make progress on agreed priorities.Joe leads each engagement and remains directly involved. When additional expertise is needed, he brings in specialists across engineering, architecture, data, analytics, and emerging technologies, keeping their work connected to the engagement’s objectives.
Experience Behind the Work
Joe Strnad | Principal and Executive Advisor
Before founding Sea Hawk, Joe spent more than 20 years leading technology organizations responsible for developing and operating mission-critical financial platforms supporting more than $5 trillion in annual debt issuance under continuous regulatory oversight.His responsibilities spanned modernization strategy, business transformation, architecture, engineering, application security, delivery, and organizational development. He worked directly with executive leadership, boards, risk, audit, compliance, and regulators, balancing the need for change with the responsibilities of operating critical platforms.Sea Hawk engagements have included:
Advising leadership on adopting and expanding AI use, identifying practical applications and evaluating how to support business priorities while protecting company code and data, ensuring recoverability, and maintaining reliable testing and releases.
Helping an executive team evaluate technology governance and organizational changes, work through competing priorities, and make decisions that account for business needs and institutional constraints.
Addressing missed delivery commitments by diagnosing what was slowing a Product Engineering team and changing how it planned, organized, and delivered work to improve delivery predictability and operational reliability.
Reshaping a transformation effort into a practical plan leaders could carry forward, clarifying priorities, resolving decisions, and working alongside them through execution.
Helping leadership determine what it would take to grow a technology product commercially, assessing the platform to clarify the changes and investment needed to support more customers, manage operating costs, and meet support needs.
Let’s Talk About What You’re Working Through
You may have a specific initiative in mind or need help understanding where to begin. Start with a conversation with Joe about your situation, what you want to accomplish, and where Sea Hawk could help.Schedule a Call with Joe on CalendlyEmail Joe: [email protected]