Founder

Twenty years of progressive technology leadership — most recently as the sole technology executive at a Toronto-area chartered professional accounting firm, with prior depth across enterprise software, financial services, media, telecommunications, and the public sector. CTO, senior director, and programme manager seats; partner conversations through to 911-dispatch programmes.

Most recently: seven years owning the full technology mandate at a Toronto-area chartered professional accounting firm. Strategy, infrastructure, security, vendor governance, ERP advisory for client engagements, and a $300K+ annual IT budget. Reduced annual technology spend by 28% through vendor negotiation and portfolio rationalisation. Led the firm-wide AI programme — Microsoft 365 Copilot roll-out, Power Automate workflows, Power BI executive reporting, and the responsible-use policy that kept client data inside the boundary. Migrated the firm to Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure Files + FSLogix profile containers, and stood up Veeam-based DR with defined RPO/RTO and validated failover.

Earlier work spans the full enterprise spectrum. Delivered an Olympic-scale public-facing application against a fixed launch date. Built a digital drive-thru program for a global quick-service brand, piloted across South America. Managed a nationwide bank branch deployment across 100+ locations. Recovered a $1.7M mainframe infrastructure program from red to green in 30 days, realigning 21 onshore and offshore resources in the process. Managed up to 45 concurrent enterprise IT implementations — 600+ projects delivered in three years across budgets from $25K to $4.2M. Led a full ERP migration from AS/400 to PeopleSoft & Oracle for a 700-user enterprise environment, designing nine remote networks along the way. Supported a citywide emergency-services 911 systems upgrade within a $35M envelope.

Today, SRS IT Consulting Inc. — operating since 2004 — brings twenty years of senior judgement to organisations across Southwestern Ontario, the Greater Toronto Area, and remotely, on a fractional, project, or advisory basis.

Areas of expertise

• Fractional CTO advisory — multi-year technology strategy, board reporting, executive partnership
• Fractional CIO advisory — IT operations leadership, business systems strategy, vendor governance, IT budget
• PMO governance & program recovery — frameworks, R/Y/G reporting, red-to-green rescue
• AI strategy & firm-wide AI programmes — Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power Automate, Power BI, AI governance, responsible-use policy, PIPEDA alignment
• IT infrastructure & cybersecurity audits — PIPEDA, SOC 2, ISO 27001 control principles
• ERP advisory & engagement-CTO — NetSuite, Dynamics 365 Business Central, PeopleSoft/Oracle
• Microsoft cloud platform — Azure, M365, Active Directory, SSO, MFA, SAML, conditional access
• Virtual desktop & end-user computing — Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Files, FSLogix profile containers
• Virtualisation & server infrastructure — VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange
• Disaster recovery & business continuity — Veeam, Zerto, RPO/RTO design, single-point-of-failure remediation
• Vendor & cost optimisation — RFP, contract negotiation, MSP management, portfolio rationalisation
• Technology procurement & asset lifecycle — buyer-side specification, licensing, deployment & refresh
• ITIL-aligned service delivery — incident, request, problem, change, major incident management

Where we focus

The practice is built for accounting firms, professional-services partnerships, and mid-market financial-services businesses. The patterns repeat — sensitive client data, regulated reporting, partner governance, fee pressure on IT spend, Microsoft 365-plus-line-of-business stacks — and Roger has been inside those patterns for two decades, most recently as the sole technology executive at a chartered professional accounting firm in the Greater Toronto Area. That focus now has its own page: Cloud for Accounting Firms, covering mergers and retirements, leaving the server closet, and TaxCycle in the cloud.

Also delivered for

Twenty years of programmes outside the niche gives clean perspective when it’s needed: banking, insurance, media & entertainment, transportation & logistics, industrial manufacturing, public sector & emergency services, telecommunications, enterprise software, healthcare, and utilities.