Senior IT, without the senior IT salary.

28 years running service desks, ops teams, and incident response. ITIL-certified. Two ways to work with me.

Fractional IT Leadership

What you actually get when you hire me.

Companies under 100 don't need a CIO. They need someone senior enough to make the right calls, available enough to actually be there, and grounded enough to know that the answer isn't always "buy another tool." I take on a small number of clients at a time so each one gets real attention.

What I actually do

  • Stand up IT from scratch when you've outgrown the founder-running-IT phase
  • Identity, devices, email and data, so the basics are no longer a mystery
  • Pick the right tools for your size. Not the enterprise ones with a sales rep attached
  • Vendor reviews. Cut what isn't working, fix what is
  • Incident response when something is on fire at 2 AM
  • Audit and compliance prep without the textbook ITIL lecture

Who this is for

  • Under 100 employees. That's the sweet spot
  • No formal IT yet, or one person wearing the IT hat alongside three other hats
  • Growing fast and the IT debt is starting to show
  • Audit, compliance, or insurance is asking questions you don't have answers to

How we work together

  • MSA up front so legal is out of the way
  • Pay as you go by default. No retainer unless it makes sense for you
  • Per-workstream confirmations so you only pay for what you actually want done
  • Identity, devices, email and data, service desk, vendor mgmt. Pick what you need
  • Capacity is intentional. As demand grows I'll bring in senior help, not warm bodies
Book a call

First call is free. Bring the thing that's been on your mind for the last six months.

KageOps Intelligent operations

KageOps · Early access

Your service desk, trained on your tickets.

Generic AI knows what a VPN is. KageOps knows why Tom has VPN issues every Tuesday. We train on your ticket history, then run in shadow mode so your team validates every suggestion before it goes live. Taking two to three pilot clients while we finish hardening it.

Intelligent triage

Every ticket gets categorized, prioritized, and routed the moment it lands. It knows your taxonomy and your team because we trained it on your own historical tickets, not someone else's.

Knowledge that surfaces itself

Relevant KB articles appear in the ticket automatically. Not generic suggestions. The actual articles your team has used to resolve similar issues.

Shadow mode first

The tool watches and suggests, your techs validate. Nothing touches production until you're sure it works the way your team works.

Two ways to run it

Pick the deployment that fits your security posture and your team.

Accepting pilot clients

On your tenant

KageOps deploys into your environment. Your tickets never leave your walls. The right call for regulated industries, IT-mature teams, and anyone who can't have customer data sitting in a vendor cloud.

Coming soon

Hosted by us

We run KageOps for you. Point it at your Freshservice and you're live in days, not weeks. Defensible security from day one. Built for smaller IT teams who don't want to deploy and maintain another system.

How a pilot runs

Kickoff, we export your ticket history. A short training and tuning window. Then shadow mode where your team grades every suggestion. After that, you decide whether to flip it live. Pilots run at a reduced rate because we're still polishing the edges, and your feedback shapes what ships.

Apply for a pilot slot

Send 10 redacted tickets and we'll show you exactly how KageOps would have handled them. No pitch deck.

Hosted version coming soon. Join the waitlist at kageops.io.

About

Meet Oliver J. Walker.

Walker Advisory exists because I spent 28 years watching the same problems get repackaged with new buzzwords. Real automation should make your team's life easier, not give them three new dashboards to babysit. Real IT leadership should reduce the meetings, not generate them.

I've run service desks that handled 200+ tickets a day. I've been the person paged at 2 AM for a Sev 1. I've sat in exec meetings explaining why the new tool the board wants to buy is going to break the four tools they already have. That's the lens I bring to every engagement.

ITIL-certified. Founder of Walker Advisory Solutions, LLC. Based in the US, working with clients across North America.

28 Years in IT operations
ITIL Certified practitioner
2 AM Sev 1 veteran

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