Why local matters on this kind of work
Most of what I do can be done remotely, and most of it is. But conversions and migrations have moments that go better with someone physically present: the Friday night when the core goes read-only, the morning a floor of users sits down in front of a desktop that changed overnight, the afternoon in a records room deciding what actually has to be scanned.
Being an hour or less from most of the metro means I can be there for those moments without a travel line item that costs more than the work.
Who I typically work with here
Community banks and credit unions across Kansas and Missouri, professional services firms, manufacturers and distributors with aging file servers, and internal IT teams that are short one person for a project rather than short a department. Engagements run from a two-week data extract to a core conversion measured in months.
The regulatory side
Financial institutions in this region answer to the OCC, the FDIC, the NCUA, the Kansas OSBC or the Missouri Division of Finance depending on charter. Conversions and imaging projects create examination questions — retention, access, evidence that balances reconciled. I plan for that documentation from the start rather than assembling it afterwards.
How to start
Tell me what you’re moving, roughly when, and what your downtime tolerance is. If it isn’t a fit, I’ll say so and point you somewhere better. There’s no charge for the first conversation and no sales sequence attached to it.