Technology Executive · AI-Native Operator · Candidate Brief

Ryan DeCurtis

More than twenty years building and running technology for global enterprises and private-equity-backed companies. Now operating at the front edge of applied AI, where he personally ships what most executives only sponsor.

Wayne, Pennsylvania [email protected] 610.306.0139
20+years leading technology
800+applications supported at merger peak
$3B+annual revenue supported by one platform
$10M+cut from one tech business plan
48 hrsscaffold to production AI platform
2PE-backed CEOs reported to

Every figure on this page traces to board reporting, project records, or system telemetry. Verification before publication is the operating habit.

Era III · 2023-Present

The AI-Native Executive

Running technology for a PE-backed laboratory network, and proving in production what a single AI-leveraged senior operator can deliver.

SC Labs
Senior Vice President, Technology
2023-Present · Santa Cruz, CA

Multi-state regulated testing laboratory network, backed by The Riverside Company. Reports to the CEO; regular board and sponsor presentations.

  • Cut annual technology spend nearly in half, from ≈$3MM to ≈$1.5MM, while expanding capability; ITSM best practices ($100K+/mo in savings) were one component of that reduction.
  • Won board approval for the company technology roadmap; delivered order-to-cash automation, an enterprise data warehouse, company-wide analytics, and real-time lab scoreboards.
  • Runs SC Labs technology with a team of 15 and three core supporting vendors; separately led a 50+ member development and engineering organization at Chorus Compliance, a digital SOP management platform for highly regulated industries.
  • Shipped a production AI agent platform for executives: scaffold to SSO-gated production in ≈48 hours, with 10 governed data sources (read-only) in week one. Role-based access, least-privilege connectors (credentials never pass through the model), and a "blessed metrics" layer keep AI answers matched to board reporting to the penny.
  • Automated 70-80% of the monthly 118-worksheet board reporting package; the back-test reproduced 98.49% of 1.48M cells exactly and the trial balance ties to the general ledger to the penny.
  • Reversed a build-vs-buy: brought the outsourced BI function in-house by reproducing the vendor's flagship revenue report within rounding (mid-five-figure annual savings), replaced a paid monitoring SaaS with a self-built SLO/error-budget platform now used by the whole engineering team, and redirected a proposed six-figure CRM redesign toward process and governance fixes first.
  • Stood up the company's first cloud security monitoring: daily CloudTrail and GuardDuty review across all enabled regions, with AI-generated executive summaries.
  • Owns the AI strategy pages of the board deck; runs multi-agent adversarial verification before numbers ship to leadership; one 29-agent pass on a board deck surfaced 8 real defects before presentation.
  • Production rigor: proved a silent data-loss bug with replay-level attribution and fixed it same-day; a pre-go-live audit of a systems integrator's Salesforce build caught 3 deploy-day blockers before launch.
Era II · 2017-2023

The Zero-to-Scale Operator

Building technology organizations from nothing inside venture math, where every dollar of the plan is challenged.

Heart + Paw
Director of Technology
2019-2023 · Berwyn, PA

Senior-most technology leader, reporting to the CEO. Waud Capital-backed veterinary care platform: pre-revenue toward 40+ hospitals through de novo growth and M&A.

  • Built and staffed the entire technology organization (application development, infrastructure, security, and integration) supporting hyper-growth, 400+ employees, and a strategy built for year-over-year doubling.
  • Re-engineered the initial technology business plan, saving $10M+ in planned technology cost.
  • Delivered a BI platform across Salesforce, Sage, and a custom-built veterinary patient information management system (PIMS) on Azure + Power BI, including AI/ML models predicting no-shows and cancellations and a health-timeline view aiding veterinary diagnostics.
  • Standardized the hospital technology stack and built a repeatable onboarding model for de novo and acquired locations.
eAura Technologies
Founder & Managing Partner
Founded 2012 · Full-time 2017-2019 · King of Prussia, PA

Cloud consulting firm delivering business-process design and on-premise-to-cloud application migrations.

  • Founded the firm in 2012 and led it full-time from 2017 to 2019: set corporate strategy and negotiated partnerships with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Oracle Cloud for customer SaaS and PaaS implementations.
  • Stayed hands-on during the full-time years: architected and developed custom software for customer integrations while recruiting the delivery team and running operations.
  • The firm operates independently today, with a largely offshore delivery team serving long-term clients and an AI platform product line incubated under it; his involvement is at the board and product-strategy level.
Era I · 1998-2017

The Enterprise Foundations

Seventeen years at Ricoh/IKON, a Fortune Global 500 with 25,000+ employees, rising from web platforms to global technology leadership. Before that he built a startup ISP, network and datacenter included.

Ricoh Americas / IKON
Senior Global Technology Manager
Business Strategy
2011-2017 · Malvern, PA
  • Led Oracle WMS implementation across five distribution centers with real-time GPS, last-mile delivery, and 3PL integration.
  • Cut operational costs 28% through Six Sigma and LEAN, leveraging Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, and intelligent automation.
  • Delivered 100+ enterprise software projects, with $9.5M+ ROI in FY15/16 alone.
Ricoh Americas / IKON
Senior Technology Manager
Architecture & Application Support
2006-2011
  • Led the Oracle EBS "OnePlatform" consolidation through the IKON/Ricoh merger within a $40M budget; his 75-analyst organization supported 800+ applications at peak and 20,000+ employees on Oracle.
  • Built the custom .NET CRM ("OnTarget") that served the national sales force for a decade before Salesforce replaced it, then led that Salesforce migration.
  • Ahead of the curve: shipped an intelligent service-request application and automated meter-read telemetry from field devices straight into Oracle billing, rules-based automation years ahead of its time.
Ricoh Americas / IKON
Manager, eCommerce Application Development
2000-2005
  • Built the team behind IKON Online, the global customer-facing eCommerce platform supporting $3B+ in annual revenue.
  • Led SOX 404 and PCI compliance for customer-facing commerce: datacenter hardening, penetration testing and remediation, full-stack monitoring.
The Differentiator

An AI-Leveraged Engineering Practice

Most executives sponsor AI initiatives. Ryan runs one daily, in production, with governance treated as a feature: one senior operator, delivering at the pace of a small team. The altitude is calibrated to company stage; he built the technology organization at Heart + Paw and runs lean by design at SC Labs.

Directs AI like an engineering org

AI coding agents with explicit working agreements, review gates, and standing instructions to push back against anything that violates best practice: privacy, security, cost, UX. The judgment stays human; the throughput doesn't.

Verification before publication

Multi-agent adversarial review before numbers reach leadership: a 29-agent pass caught 8 real defects in a board deck; a 48-agent audit surfaced 40 confirmed findings in an operations dashboard, with the high-severity findings fixed and redeployed the same day.

Governance as architecture

Sensitive data revoked at the database-role level so no prompt can reach it; credentials never pass through a model; "blessed metrics" layers so AI answers agree with the board deck; claims never outrun what the code enforces.

Skin in the game

His home lab runs like a production environment: agentic AI systems in daily use, zero-trust networking, encrypted disaster recovery with verified restores. He adopts nothing for clients he hasn't operated himself.

Working Range

Capabilities

Executive
Board & PE reporting · Technology strategy and roadmaps · Build-vs-buy and vendor negotiation · M&A systems integration · Org design, onshore/offshore · $40M program budgets
Applied AI
LLM product architecture (Anthropic Claude, multi-model routing) · Agentic systems & tool use · RAG and embeddings · Multi-agent adversarial verification · AI governance & guardrails
Platform
AWS (Terraform, SSM, IAM) · Azure · Docker · PostgreSQL · Python/FastAPI · React/TypeScript · Zero-trust networking (Cloudflare) · SRE: SLOs, error budgets, on-call
Enterprise
Oracle EBS / WMS / Cloud · Salesforce · Sage Intacct · Data warehousing & BI (Power BI, QlikSense) · Order-to-cash · ITSM/ITIL · Six Sigma / LEAN · SOX & PCI