Field CTO Consulting | Ernest Solomon

Meet Ernest Solomon

Ernest brings extensive expertise in strategy, big data, and security. Having served as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Ernest has an impressive portfolio helping clients with digital transformations across banking, insurance, legal, pharma and technology. 

Ernest consistently aligns technology strategy with real-world objectives, ensuring organizations gain both operational resilience and a competitive edge.

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Areas of Expertise

Complex digital transformations

Ernest is known for balancing business goals, risk, and customer experience. He has spearheaded large-scale overhauls across cloud applications, workplace modernization, infrastructure, and governance, risk, compliance (GCR). 

Application transformation

Evaluate your ecosystem of applications to identify which workloads are best suited for the cloud. A thorough evaluation will help you in prioritizing and strategizing your cloud transformation journey for optimal results.

Application transformation

Workplace transformation

Transformation strategies are built around employees' experience; support and build collaboration tools while driving innovation.

Workplace transformation

Infrastructure transformation

Infrastructure transformation focused on modernizing the entire technology stack–managing data operations, backups to recover applications, etc. 

Infrastructure transformation

Governance, risk, and compliance

Understand the implementation of multiple platforms while ensuring security and best practices are embedded throughout every aspect of the business. 

Governance, risk, and compliance

Results-focused outcomes

By uniting a visionary approach with relentless execution, Ernest empowers organizations to navigate complex transformations and build secure, future-ready technology environments. 

Modernize legacy systems with ease

Modernize applications to optimize performance, enhance scalability, and strengthen security with tailored transformation strategies—from assessment and planning to implementation and ongoing support.

Reduce technical debt

Identify, prioritize, and strategically address technical debt. Free up resources for innovation and accelerate deployment cycles. Eliminate unnecessary burdens and unlock your innovation potential.

Gain competitive advantage

Execute strategies that drive innovation, improve efficiency, and unlock new market opportunities—positioning you for sustained success.Modernize operations, optimize your technology stack, and enhance customer and employee experiences.

Reimagine end-user experiences

Improve team effectiveness by formalizing architecture, data governance, workplace technology, and project management disciplines. Develop strategic roadmaps to improve operational excellence through robotic process automation, data governance/stewardship, chatbots, and enhanced search incorporating AI, ML, and NLP.

Implemented real-time operations metrics dashboard, 32% MTTR reduction

Continuously optimize costs

Implement metrics-driven IT management frameworks to define operational milestones, achieving more efficient resource allocation to maximize your return on technology investments.

Oversaw an annual $30M+ operations and maintenance budget with 98% forecast accuracy. Renegotiated a three-year managed services outsourcing agreement to realize $5M+ in savings

Mitigate risk

Leverage risk-based assessments and proven methodologies to establish robust governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) frameworks that effectively mitigate threats and ensure business continuity.

Modernize with ease, reduce technical debt, mitigate risk

Ernest has extensive experience with all hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure) modernizing workloads with containerization and virtualizations, network modernizations, implementation of data and storage platforms, and ensuring business continuity.

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Accomplish visible business impact

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Modernize with ease

Ernest has extensive experience with all hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure) modernizing workloads with containerization and virtualizations, network modernizations, implementation of data and storage platforms, and ensuring business continuity.

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Reduce technical debt

By championing agile methods and data-driven insights, Ernest helps businesses reduce technical debt, accelerate delivery, and enhance end-user satisfaction.

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Mitigate risk

Ernest’s background in heavily regulated industries has honed his ability to mitigate security threats, achieve compliance milestones, and conduct effective disaster recovery exercises—all while prioritizing a robust customer and employee experience.

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