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As external CIO, Cheryl has been critical to GridHawk's growth. We've grown from a single client to the second-largest player in the space, serving customers in 28 states, and our revenue has grown from $5 million to over $225 million.
Cheryl was really critical to growing and building our entire IT team. She did a great job of getting up to speed on our business, taking the leadership role, managing our external dev team, and putting processes and controls in place.
She's a real go-getter: very action-oriented, and far more responsive than others we've hired in a similar capacity. If there was an emergency with the system, then we knew she would jump right in to help solve the problem.
What Clients Say
I can't really overstate the value of what Cheryl provided. She is the navigator and co-pilot we didn't know we needed. When we acquired DominionX, the company's proprietary software was described to us as the "be-all and end-all," but it turned out to be a bridge to nowhere.
Cheryl was able to dive in and separate the claims from reality. She went to the market, researched, and helped us land on the new ERP platform we're on now.
She spent almost a year before the launch, and then a year since, really trying to help us tailor our operation to the system and the system to our operation. She's managed all of our technology resources, third-party and in-house, and has done a very, very good job with that. We were lost in the dark, and she helped shine a light, course correct, and redirect us to where we are today.
Cheryl was a pleasure to work with and very easy to get along with. Some IT folks are so dry you can’t wait to get off the phone, but it was always enjoyable to have a call with her, to talk things through, and get things done.
What I liked about her in that role was that she could direct the team and bring matters to a resolution. She very rarely, if ever, came to me with a problem without also bringing possible solutions. She was truly an executive leader for our IT organization, building the structure we needed to succeed.
We needed to do a lot of scaling. This company started five or six years ago with 50 employees. When Cheryl came on board, we had around 125. Today we have about 2,700 employees. She set up the organization's entire IT infrastructure to enable us to grow effectively and be successful. Our systems wouldn’t be where they are – in IT application support, security infrastructure, processes, and tracking – if it weren't for her leadership.
She was integral in the implementation of our ERP with NetSuite. She was also involved in developing the application we had, Evotix, and the Samsara application, and in keeping our current ticket management system up and running during our conversion to DigTix.
Our organization undertook a massive IT and business transformation with the implementation of ORACLE Cloud (Fusion).
Cheryl's leadership and expertise were instrumental in delivering this complex transformation on time and within budget.
Her ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments while keeping the team focused on outcomes was truly exceptional.
Since the acquisition of DominionX, our revenue has more than tripled, and Cheryl has been a critical part of our growth.
We inherited a proprietary software system that would not scale with the company.
When we decided to change systems, she learned our requirements, evaluated ERPs, helped us select the best system, chose the integration partner, and then oversaw the entire implementation. She was our key expert throughout that process.
When we needed her help with IT diligence, Cheryl was extremely well-prepared. She gave our customers and investors confidence that we had institutional‑quality IT and data protection in place.
I had worked with Cheryl on a complex technology project in the past and brought her in to handle a massive systems conversion involving fifteen of our top global customers.
It was a major investment and one of the CEO's top 5 priorities. She delivered exceptional results and managed stakeholder expectations brilliantly.
Cheryl is like a "swiss army knife." She can operate at the 100,000-foot level and at the 10 ft level, and can work effectively with executive teams and others and was able to work with and impress a large team of engineers.
She gets the job done with excellence and professionalism.
Heart. That is the word that I think of when I am prospecting or what I would want to see in a testimonial of a potential client.
This HEART I'm talking about is the all in, determination driven, excellence performance that Cheryl brings to every engagement. Her commitment to success is unmatched.
Cheryl led a data migration project from legacy system to Oracle EBS as an interim CIO and project lead. I became involved after our acquisition of her client (Formation Brands), and was impressed by the way the team rallied around Cheryl.
She had built strong relationships within IT and across business functions. She is skilled at needs assessment and getting end user engagement. She bridges well between IT and non-technical leaders and was able to establish trust across the board.
Cheryl is truly a strong and proven IT leader with tremendous experience. I recommend her to any organization needing assessments, recommendations, and delivery of major systems implementations.
Moody Technology (dba GoCIO) brings many skills to the table, and vastly improved our internal IT organization in addition to leading a complex 18-month business transformation project.
We discovered that this Oracle Fusion initiative was even larger and more complex than originally imagined – it was very intense with a broad footprint.
They organized and pulled all the work streams together and kept things on track. Cheryl is very smart and thorough, and she is adept at scoping the work. This was skillfully and expertly led and managed, and we were incredibly pleased with the final outcome.
As a non-IT person, I relied heavily on Cheryl’s technical expertise, advice, and recommendations related to our law firm’s IT contract. She led us through an assessment to determine what we really needed to focus on and made recommendations that my partners and I found extremely valuable.
Through a well thought out vendor selection process, she led us to a solution which we implemented and remain very happy with. As a result, I highly recommend Moody Technology.
I strongly recommend Cheryl if you are in need of an information technology leader who can guide your team through a challenging period. We experienced a difficult ERP implementation and needed to bring in an interim leader to transition us to a stable environment.
Cheryl joined our team and immediately demonstrated the leadership we needed. Cheryl brought organization and structure to how we were assessing our implementation issues and prioritizing the required fixes. Her collaborative style was very effective in gaining the trust of the IT organization, external consultants and our broader team across all levels of the organization. Cheryl had a very positive impact on our organization and was a leader in guiding our implementation to stability.