BSI Engineering For Dan

Process Engineering: A 90-Day CTO Plan

Dan, here’s your new VP of Technology’s first 90 days. What to fix first, where AI pays off soonest, and what the hire should own.

If the VP of Technology seat can stay open another quarter, ignore this. If it can’t, the next two minutes are worth it.

What we noticed

An employee-owned engineering firm founded in 2007, with over 250 engineers and designers and over 90% of eligible employees holding stock.

Your Vice President of Technology posting went up on October 27, and it asks one executive to run enterprise applications, security, data governance, AI and the technology for three offices and the next ones.

Your own work Process, piping, laser scanning, BIM coordination and automation for chemical, pharmaceutical and food plants. Your clients’ data is as large as your own. Laser scanning page
Your own data Project systems the posting names: Deltek Vantagepoint, Autodesk, project lifecycle management, CRM and BI. Vice President of Technology posting
Your team Over 250 engineers and designers across several offices, and a technology lane for operations IT and another for project delivery and applications. About page
Your tech Your own automation work covers PLC, MES and SCADA, and the public site runs on Webflow with Google Tag Manager. Industrial automation page

Seen in your stack: Deltek Vantagepoint · Autodesk · CRM · Webflow · Google Tag Manager

What your posting asks for

“Develop and execute a comprehensive technology roadmap that aligns with BSI's strategic objectives, supports scalable growth, and enables operational excellence across the organization.”
“Develop and execute a scalable technology and infrastructure approach that effectively integrates BSI’s existing regional offices in Mason, Ohio; Oak Brook, Illinois; and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, while establishing repeatable standards, systems, and support capabilities for expansion into new geographic markets.”
“Develop and maintain data governance standards that promote data accuracy, integrity, accessibility, security, and consistency across the organization while supporting reporting, analytics, and informed decision-making.”
“Establish and maintain strong cybersecurity, risk management, compliance, disaster recovery, and business continuity programs that protect company systems, intellectual property, client data, and business operations.”
“Evaluate and implement emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, automation, agentic technologies, and advanced analytics, where they provide measurable business value and improve operational effectiveness”

From your Vice President of Technology posting, posted October 27, 2026.

What changes for your new Vice President of Technology

Your new VP of Technology starts with a plan: which systems to standardize across offices first, how project and financial data should flow, where AI saves engineers time soonest, and a clear line between what they own and what a fractional lead can carry while they settle in.

Your new Vice President of Technology’s first 90 days

Three phases, each item with the reason it’s there and where that came from.

Days 1 to 30

Learn the offices, the project systems and the risks

1
Visit Mason, Oak Brook and Cedar Rapids
The posting wants the offices integrated. Seeing each one’s tools, support and pain points is the starting point.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting
2
Map how Deltek, Autodesk and the CRM connect from proposal to invoice
The posting names these platforms. Where data is retyped between them is where time and errors hide.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting
3
Meet the two lanes the VP will manage
The VP directly manages operations IT and digital project delivery and applications. Their current work and gaps set the first priorities.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting
4
Review security and recovery for client data and designs
Client data and intellectual property are named in the posting, and industrial clients ask about both.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting

Days 31 to 60

Standardize across offices

5
Set one standard stack and support model for every office
The role is asked to set repeatable standards, systems and support so a new office can open on them.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting
6
Draft the data governance standards
Data accuracy, integrity and consistency are a named duty and the base for any analytics or AI.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting
7
Review vendors, contracts and managed service providers
The VP directs vendors and managed providers, so a list of who does what and at what cost comes first.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting
8
List the technology portfolio and rank it
Prioritization and governance of the portfolio is a stated duty, and a ranked list shows the executives what is in flight.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting

Days 61 to 90

Write the roadmap and the scorecards

9
Write the technology roadmap with the executive team
The roadmap is the posting’s first responsibility, tied to growth.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting
10
Set scorecards and the operating rhythm
The competency profile asks for scorecards and operating rhythms, and EOS is named.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting
11
Build the business cases and the technology budget
The role approaches spending with an ownership mindset and expects ROI cases.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting

Where AI pays off soonest

Workflows from your own business, in the order they save your team time.

1 Staffing and resource forecasts from project data
You schedule by resource loading. AI can read the project pipeline and show where expertise runs short across the offices, for a manager to act on.
Source: Project management page
2 Proposals and case-study drafts from past projects
You publish case studies across industries. AI can assemble a first draft of a proposal section from the closest past projects for an engineer to edit.
Source: Case studies page
3 Search across decades of project experience
Over 250 engineers hold years of project knowledge. A search assistant on your own documents lets new hires and new offices find precedent in seconds.
Source: About page
4 Data-integrity checks across project and financial systems
The posting wants data accuracy and integrity. AI can flag mismatches between systems for the team to fix.
Source: Vice President of Technology posting

What the hire owns, and what a fractional lead covers

Your Vice President of Technology owns

The enterprise technology roadmap and executive advice
Operations IT and project delivery applications
Cybersecurity, continuity and data governance
Standards for the existing and the new offices
The technology team, vendors and budget

A fractional lead covers

Where AI pays off, and the governance rules around it
An outside read of the project-system and data plan
Vendor and platform choices across offices
This 90-day plan, run alongside the hire until it’s theirs

Your first 90 days of tech leadership, planned

The plan above is yours either way.

Email Kash

We build a handful of these a month, for founders hiring now.

90 days

from the first day to a written roadmap

What to fix first, with the reason
Where AI pays off soonest
What the hire owns and what a fractional lead covers
A roadmap your team can run

Who’s building it

Kash Badami was Chief Architect of a national health information network and closed the CMS deal behind Healthcare.gov’s data infrastructure. He runs his own company on AI today.

Chief Architectof a national health information network for HHS, aligning 23 federal agencies

$27MCMS deal that became core Healthcare.gov data infrastructure

“he was singularly responsible for the company’s single largest customer by revenue - the Center for Medicare & Medicaid within the US Department of Health and Human Services.”

RLRobert Liebowitz, worked with Kash on MarkLogic’s Public Sector team; now First Ascent VenturesLinkedIn recommendation, April 2026
“Kash and I built ERT Credit together in 2021. He took my MVP and turned it into a SaaS that hit $10M ARR in twelve months.”

Jordan Anderson, CEO, PayStreetgobridgehead.ai/about

BSI Engineering sales playbook, in brief

BSI Engineering is an employee-owned industrial engineering firm founded in 2007, with over 250 engineers and designers in several offices.About page

Its Vice President of Technology posting asks one executive to run enterprise applications, security, data governance, AI and the office rollout.Vice President of Technology posting

The first 90 days: visit the offices, map Deltek, Autodesk and the CRM, set one standard stack, then write the roadmap and scorecards.Vice President of Technology posting

AI pays off soonest in staffing forecasts, proposal drafts, search across past projects and data-integrity checks.Project management page, Case studies page, About page, Vice President of Technology posting

Prepared by Kash Badami at Bridgehead · November 9, 2026 · Every source

Questions

Why a fractional lead instead of waiting for the full-time Vice President of Technology?

You don’t have to choose. The hire owns the product and the team; a fractional lead covers the AI and software side and runs this plan until it’s theirs, so nothing waits on the search.

What does it cost?

The first engagement is a fixed price, quoted on a call once we’ve seen what you need. After that there’s an optional monthly retainer, and you can stop at any point.

Will it get in the way of the Vice President of Technology we hire?

No. The line between what they own and what a fractional lead covers is on this page, and the plan is handed to them to run.

Where does our data live, and is it secure?

In your own accounts. Nothing runs on our side, and every tool or vendor we suggest is reviewed with you before anyone connects it.

Is this only about AI?

No. AI is one part. Most of the first 90 days is the work your posting describes, and the AI items are the ones that save your team time soonest.