One senior technologist, on purpose.
Founder-first, straight talk, real fleets behind the advice.
About Brendan Hummel
Hummel LLC is Brendan Hummel. I’ve spent 15+ years running real IT fleets — networks, security, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), and vendor stacks — at organizations that needed it to actually work. I’ve worked in payment-card (PCI) environments and alongside compliance-heavy industries like healthcare, legal, and finance, so the audit and insurance conversations are familiar, not foreign. The strongest part of what I do has always been the deep technical work itself — so the advice comes with the hands-on capability to back it up.
Why part time? Most small businesses don’t need a full-time CIO. They need one good judgment call in the loop, consistently — planning, protection, and oversight. That’s the model: few clients on purpose, real work, and you talk to the person doing it.
Remote-first, Columbia, SC anchored. If it’s a fit, it’s an easy fit — and if it isn’t, I’ll tell you straight.