Ryan Schellenberg Consulting
Technology Consulting in Simcoe and York
Fractional IT leadership for hire
Partner to mid-market & municipal IT teams across Simcoe and York Region

Consulting for complex IT infrastructure operations, and transformation.

Helping organizations stabilize critical systems, reduce operational noise and ship changes safely by combining deep hands-on engineering with experienced leadership.

20+ years infrastructure, virtualization and operations leadership
Focus: York Region · GTA · Southern Ontario
Available for fractional, project and advisory engagements
Most value for teams juggling production uptime, legacy systems, and rapid change simultaneously. Engagements start at a single diagnostic sprint.
Services
Anchor around outcomes, not deliverables.
Infrastructure & Platform architecture and modernization
Operations stability, process and tooling
Leadership advisory, coaching and interim coverage
  • Design and implement **infrastructure roadmaps** that align virtualization, storage, and network investments with business priorities instead of vendor trend cycles.
  • Stabilize noisy production environments by tightening monitoring, hardening backup and recovery, and removing single points of failure in core platforms and services.
  • Build or refine IT operations practices across incident, change, and problem management so frontline teams can respond faster with less heroics.
  • Support complex cutovers, data centre moves, platform upgrades, and vendor transitions with risk-focused planning, dry runs, and clear runbooks.
  • Provide operations leadership to mentor internal leads, align IT roadmap with stakeholders, and translate technical detail into executive-ready updates.
Ideal clients 50–500 staff · lean IT
Engagements 4–12 week sprints
Experience
Hands-on, from rack to roadmap.
  • 20+ years leading IT operations, infrastructure, and systems architecture across utilities, hospitality, and professional services organizations in Southern Ontario.
  • Proven track record running 24x7 **production environments** spanning Proxmox, VMware, Unraid, SAN/NAS, and hybrid Windows/Linux workloads.
  • Deep background in service delivery, including on-call support, vendor management, and user-facing incident communication under pressure.
  • Extensive experience automating routine operations using scripting, orchestration, and workflow tools to reduce manual effort and error rates.
  • History of building documentation, runbooks, and onboarding paths that make complex environments understandable for new team members.
Domains infrastructure · operations · SRE-adjacent