IT Leadership Advisory — Greenville, SC
Technology that
answers to the
business.
ABC and Associates puts twenty years of enterprise IT leadership to work for organizations that need a senior technology partner — without putting a full-time executive on the payroll.
The approach
Most technology problems aren't really technology problems. They're business relationships waiting for the right system. The work has always been the same — building the right technology around the right relationships, and making IT a partner the business actually trusts.
Comfortable at the board table, and in the weeds.
Services
Senior technology help, scoped to what you need.
Engage the whole practice or a single problem. Each of these is work I've owned end to end, not advised from a distance.
Fractional & interim IT leadership
A seasoned IT director or CIO on your terms — strategy, board and leadership reporting, and day-to-day judgment, without the cost and commitment of a permanent executive hire.
Cloud & infrastructure strategy
Migration planning and execution that lowers cost and improves resilience. Moving on-prem to AWS cut more than $300K a year; modernizing the network cut another $400K.
ERP & business systems
Replace aging financial and operational platforms — Microsoft Dynamics 365, Salesforce — with systems your finance and operations teams will actually trust, with cleaner data and stronger controls.
AI enablement
Roll out AI across the organization the right way — deployment, governance, and hands-on training that gets every employee actually using it. Led an enterprise-wide Google Gemini rollout, end to end.
M&A & carve-out IT
Integrate an acquisition or stand up IT through a spin-off without disrupting either business. Integrated a 55-person acquisition and built out IT through a corporate spin-off — both businesses running throughout.
Security, compliance & risk
SOX controls, NIST-aligned risk assessment, and audit readiness. A clean track record — successful annual SOX audits with no material findings.
Track record
Two decades, measured in outcomes.
The numbers below come from real work at Rayonier, a global timber REIT, across roles from applications developer to Director of IT.
Selected transformations
What that looked like in practice.
On-prem to AWS
Migrated on-premises infrastructure to Amazon Web Services — saving $300K+ a year while improving scalability, redundancy, and disaster recovery.
MPLS to DMVPN
Re-architected the wide-area network across every site, cutting networking costs by $400K+ annually and strengthening connectivity company-wide.
Dynamics 365 GL
Replaced a legacy general-ledger system with Microsoft Dynamics 365 — sharper financial reporting, stronger SOX controls, better security posture.
Salesforce e-commerce
Launched a Salesforce-based e-commerce platform that modernized a $20M+ business and opened previously untapped assets to digital sales.
Enterprise Gemini rollout
Deployed Google Gemini company-wide with hands-on training for every employee, positioning the organization to use AI in daily operations.
Acquisition & spin-off
Integrated a 55-employee acquisition and led the IT build-out through a corporate spin-off — keeping both businesses running smoothly throughout.
About
ABC and Associates, LLC Adam C. Brown, Principal MBA — Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina Greenville, SC & remote
The person you'd actually be working with.
The "ABC" is Adam C. Brown. Over twenty-plus years at Rayonier, a global timber REIT, he grew from an applications developer into Director of IT — leading a 22-member department, a $10M budget, and operations spanning the U.S. and New Zealand, reporting to senior leadership and the board.
The throughline across every role has been the same: serving as the translator between what the business needs and what technology can actually deliver. That's bridging IT and the forestry and real-estate units as a relationship manager, consolidating five revenue systems into one, or steering a company through cloud, ERP, and AI transformations without losing the people along the way.
Now that depth is available to your organization — for a single project, a transformation, or ongoing fractional leadership.
Contact
Let's talk about what you're trying to fix.
A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether there's a fit. No pitch deck required — just tell me what's on your plate.
Helpful to include: the problem you're facing, rough timeline, and whether you're after a one-time project or ongoing support.
- Emailtheadamcbrown@gmail.com
- Phone904-524-7878
- LinkedIn/in/theadamcbrown
- Based inGreenville, South Carolina