Boston, Massachusetts · contact@graycrayon.com
Consulting | Incubator | Thinktank
A veteran technology firm with 40+ years delivering enterprise-scale solutions for Fortune 500 companies across aerospace, defense, energy, and technology sectors. Strategic consulting, venture incubation, and forward-thinking research — under one roof.
Expert advisory across enterprise software, systems integration, and architecture modernization. Forty years of hands-on delivery for clients ranging from regional businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises.
LEARN MORE →End-to-end venture incubation from concept through market launch. Identifying and nurturing technology opportunities, building founding teams, and guiding product development with operator-level expertise.
LEARN MORE →Large-scale database design and implementation across SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and legacy platforms. Specializing in asset management systems for oil & gas, automotive, and aerospace industries.
LEARN MORE →AWS-native cloud architecture and migration strategy covering IAM, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Route53, CloudWatch, SES, SNS, and EventBridge. Full Linux/Unix and Windows Server administration.
LEARN MORE →End-to-end product engineering across JavaScript, Node.js, C#, ASP.NET, Swift/SwiftUI, Python, and T-SQL/PL-SQL. From mobile applications to enterprise web platforms and API-driven integration layers.
LEARN MORE →Business intelligence strategy, reporting architecture, and behavioral profiling technologies. Transforming raw operational data into decision-ready intelligence for executive and operational stakeholders.
LEARN MORE →Leading strategic technology consulting engagements and venture incubation. Providing expert advisory to select ventures focused on data architecture, behavioral profiling technologies, and cloud/mobile development.
Architected and delivered large-scale industry asset management database solutions for oil/energy, automotive, and aerospace industries. Clients included Boeing, NASA, Raytheon, John Deere, Ingersoll Rand, and Weatherford International.
Directed a venture development firm identifying and nurturing technology opportunities from concept through market launch. Oversaw portfolio strategy, deal structuring, and hands-on technical leadership across multiple concurrent ventures.
Held senior executive roles across mobile electronics software, medical staffing MIS operations, and restaurant sales software — founding RepSource, Inc. and directing technical strategy across each organization from the ground up.
With 40+ years of hands-on engineering, our team brings rare depth across the full technology stack — from legacy database platforms of the 1980s through modern cloud-native AWS architectures and iOS development. Every recommendation is grounded in real delivery experience.
GrayCrayon's technology practice spans enterprise database design, full-stack web and mobile development, cloud infrastructure, and advanced data analytics — giving clients both the strategic roadmap and the technical execution to match.
IAM, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Route53, CloudWatch, SES, SNS, EventBridge. Linux/Unix & Windows Server administration, DNS/FTP/Mail, and web hosting.
Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle RDBMS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, IBM DB2, DynamoDB. Legacy platforms: FoxPro, dBase, Paradox, Unify, FilePro, and Microsoft Access.
JavaScript, Node.js, C#, ASP.NET, Swift/SwiftUI, T-SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, HTML/CSS, Python. Web, mobile, and enterprise application development.
Native iOS application development using Swift and SwiftUI, from architecture through App Store deployment, with experience directing mobile electronics software companies.
Visual Studio, VS Code, Xcode, Microsoft BizTalk. Integration and middleware expertise spanning enterprise system connectivity and API design.
Business Objects and Oracle Discoverer for enterprise reporting. Data architecture for decision-support systems, behavioral profiling, and operational intelligence dashboards.
Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, InDesign, and XD. Full creative production capability supporting product design, brand development, and digital marketing assets.
Complex systems integration across disparate enterprise platforms, with deep experience connecting legacy infrastructure to modern cloud-native and API-driven architectures.
Our team of First Class experts brings well over four and a half decades of operator-level technology experience directly to bear on advisory engagements — offering clients the rare combination of deep technical fluency and executive-level strategic perspective.
Database architecture, cloud strategy, and systems integration counsel for organizations undergoing modernisation or facing complex technical decisions at scale.
Hands-on guidance for early-stage ventures navigating product-market fit, technical co-founder decisions, MVP scoping, and go-to-market technology strategy.
Strategic advisory on data infrastructure, behavioral profiling systems, and business intelligence platforms — translating raw data into competitive advantage.
Targeted advisory for aerospace, defense, energy, healthcare, and media organizations — informed by decades of building software and solutions that have been put to work inside organizations including Boston University, Best Buy, Fleet Financial (BOA), Boeing, NASA, Raytheon, Whirlpool, Hearst, and others.
Global technology products architect with 40+ years building enterprise-grade systems across aerospace, defense, finance, and media. Founder of GrayCrayon and the strategic compass behind every engagement.
Data architecture and AI implementation specialist with 35+ years of enterprise delivery and 10+ years in AI — from TensorFlow to agentic LLMs and MCP servers. Fractional CTO at MoxyWolf, AI Lead at Elsevier.