Role: Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, & Fractional CTO Advisory

Location: New Zealand Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No

Email: hackernews [at] architectfwd [dot] com CV/Site: https://architectfwd.com/about

I help organizations bridge the gap between strategy and actually doing stuff.

I have 20+ years of international experience across public and private sectors. Currently a Principal Architect, I’ve spent my nights and weekends building the ArchitectFWD™ ecosystem: an AI-augmented platform designed to model organisations and evolve strategy in real-time. I’m also building goals and career tools: performance management for people not HR.

How I can help your team:

• Fractional CTO/Architect

• Architecture Alignment

• Mentoring and Coaching architects and product leads.

Technologies/Frameworks: Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF/Modern Lean EA), Strategy-to-Execution Frameworks, AI-Assisted Development Workflows, Agile/Scrum, Multi-tenant SaaS Architecture, AI enabled Performance Management (prfrm™), AI augmented strategy and architecture (ArchitectFWD Enterprise).

Looking for part-time advisory, retainers, or fractional capacity.

I use ChatGPT and Gemini and Claude in various ways in my workflow

Role: Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, & Fractional CTO Advisory

Location: New Zealand Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No

Email: hackernews [at] architectfwd [dot] com CV/Site: https://architectfwd.com/about

I help organizations bridge the gap between "high-level strategy" and "technical execution." Most transformations fail because the architecture isn't aligned with the delivery priorities—I’m here to engineer that alignment.

I have 20+ years of international experience across public and private sectors. Currently a Principal Architect, I’ve spent my nights and weekends building the ArchitectFWD™ ecosystem:

- Enterprise - an AI-augmented platform designed to model enterprise components and evolve strategy in real-time.

- prfrm - performance management for people. Not HR.

How I can help your team:

• Fractional CTO/Architect: Strategy, governance, and technical roadmapping without the full-time overhead.

• Architecture Alignment: Mapping product strategy to services and tech stacks to kill "Architectural Drift."

• Operating Model Design: Moving from static "shelfware" documentation to value-driven, agile execution.

• Mentoring: Coaching architects and product leads.

Technologies/Frameworks: Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF/Modern Lean EA), Strategy-to-Execution Frameworks, AI-Assisted Development Workflows, Agile/Scrum, Multi-tenant SaaS Architecture, AI enabled Performance Management (prfrm™), AI augmented strategy and architecture (ArchitectFWD Enterprise).

Availability: Looking for part-time advisory, retainers, or fractional capacity. Whether it's a 2-hour "sanity check" on your roadmap or a regular weekly heartbeat, let’s talk.

I'm launching this on product hunt and I did a show many months back but prfrm is way better now

prfrm - by ArchitectFWD, is a performance management platform. It is a platform for Teams, Startups & Organizations and also Individuals, Solo Founders & Families to organise and track goals, set plans and review periods to stay on top of development plans and set out the path for success.

Typically uses for Review periods, performance plans, goals

Also just added Team OKR

The Goals AI assistant can create meaningful goals linked to the OKR or to individual goals and plan outcomes

I included a journal to track progress

The AI assistant can go over the journal for next steps, talking points for the next meeting or check in

An a Kanban style schedule tracking

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I built prfrm by ArchitectFWD because I was tired of traditional performance management

Spreadsheet.. blank cell ..what is next..

No more. I can set myself up, set a period, set the plan and outcome and use the AI assistant to help generate meaningful goals. I can track how I’m going and plot my path to success.

With the addition of team OKR (objectives and key results) the goals can be mapped to team objectives as well, strengthening goals to real business goals

https://prfrmhq.com goes to https://prfrm.architectfwd.com

There's a silent video on the landing of how it works in mobile view

If you want to comment on product hunt that's welcome too at https://www.producthunt.com/products/prfrm-by-architectfwd/e...

Lastly, want to see video's? They're on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBYzijBKDTJVrBzOlYuU0...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605091

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Role: Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, & Fractional CTO Advisory

Location: New Zealand Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No

Email: hackernews [at] architectfwd [dot] com CV/Site: https://architectfwd.com/about

I help organizations bridge the gap between "high-level strategy" and "technical execution." Most transformations fail because the architecture isn't aligned with the delivery priorities—I’m here to engineer that alignment.

I have 20+ years of international experience across public and private sectors. Currently a Principal Architect, I’ve spent my nights and weekends building the ArchitectFWD™ ecosystem: an AI-augmented platform designed to model enterprise components and evolve strategy in real-time. And performance management for people Not HR.

How I can help your team:

• Fractional CTO/Architect: Strategy, governance, and technical roadmapping without the full-time overhead.

• Architecture Alignment: Mapping product strategy to services and tech stacks to kill "Architectural Drift." • Operating Model Design: Moving from static "shelfware" documentation to value-driven, agile execution.

• Mentoring: Coaching architects and product leads.

Technologies/Frameworks: Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF/Modern Lean EA), Strategy-to-Execution Frameworks, AI-Assisted Development Workflows, Agile/Scrum, Multi-tenant SaaS Architecture, AI enabled Performance Management (prfrm™), AI augmented strategy and architecture (ArchitectFWD Enterprise).

Availability: Looking for part-time advisory, retainers, or fractional capacity. Whether it's a 2-hour "sanity check" on your roadmap or a regular weekly heartbeat, let’s talk.

Location: New Zealand, willing to support APAC, APJ, Australia, New Zealand and West Coast US remotely.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: See below.

Résumé/CV: https://architectfwd.com/about

Email: hackernews at architectfwd dot com

Need a consultant, strategic thinking, architecture or related tech advice, coaching/ mentoring for you or your team? Need governance improvement?

How could we work together? An hour, a couple of hours or something more regular but flexible/fractional? I am looking for part hours, or retainers, or work toward fully moving into a consulting / advisory capacity

Let’s figure out how to work together.

I have 20+ years solving business problems and maximising opportunities through technology in a variety of industries internationally.

My core skills are in strategy, enterprise architecture, technology architecture, consulting and advice, agile, team leadership, coaching and mentoring. Can do operating model work.

I am currently a Principal Architect. I operate in strategic advisory and technology architecture with many years in architecture and technology in the private and public sector. I know how to use enterprise architecture frameworks, practices and principles from concept stage to delivery in order to execute on strategy and how to work with product and development teams to set direction and manage product evolution.

Let me know when this is available https://anycrap.shop/product/dog-to-human-translator

Location: New Zealand, willing to support APAC, APJ, Australia, New Zealand and West Coast US remotely.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: See below.

Résumé/CV: https://architectfwd.com/about

Email: hackernews at architectfwd dot com

Need a consultant, strategic thinking, architecture or related tech advice, coaching/ mentoring for you or your team? Need governance improvement?

How could we work together? An hour, a couple of hours or something more regular but flexible/fractional? I am looking for part hours, or retainers, or work toward fully moving into a consulting / advisory capacity

Let’s figure out how to work together.

I have 20+ years solving business problems and maximising opportunities through technology in a variety of industries internationally.

My core skills are in strategy, enterprise architecture, technology architecture, consulting and advice, agile, team leadership, coaching and mentoring. Can do operating model work.

I am currently a Principal Architect. I operate in strategic advisory and technology architecture with many years in architecture and technology in the private and public sector. I know how to use enterprise architecture frameworks, practices and principles from concept stage to delivery in order to execute on strategy and how to work with product and development teams to set direction and manage product evolution.

On the train to be honest I find myself standing due to seat availability.

So I usually rest when taking public transport. I use it to close my eyes, look out the window or listen to music.

But it’s not a human. I can’t coach it and it’s not my friend. Boundaries and purpose

Self governance could end up like mutiny on the ship (I referred to that above) but we must have some form of governance or we have anarchy.

I wish you the best on the platform. Let us all know of any lessons you learn in time.

Democracy as Socrates or written by Plato would have said democracy is hard to succeed at as it’s ruled by many who may not have the education.. wisdom.. to run well for all. Read Ship of State.

A certain level of freedom of speech is required, or else it’s a pool of similar thinkers. A collective who everyone else must talk and think alike, for the good of the collective. See Ayn Rand.

Pretty much like downvoting, I get downvoted without knowing who or why and is a form of censorship and one or more are offended or just don’t like it. Just cuz you don’t like it doesn’t mean it should be downvoted.

My other comment here on YT shorts being useful is an example. A down vote and all I said is “ I learnt drums for a song I like from shorts. Blanket bans are not a solution”

Take care to not apply so much policy that group think and collectivism takes hold.