Enterprise Architect.
35 years. Atlanta.
Thirty-five years inside enterprise operational systems. .NET, SQL Server, retail, telecom, supply chain. Available for architecture advisory, fractional architecture leadership, and expert witness engagements.
Jerry Harlow has spent approximately 35 years inside enterprise operational systems, across retail, telecommunications, supply chain software, and long-lived Microsoft ecosystems. He has built greenfield systems, inherited other people's, scaled them past what they were designed for, and helped organizations figure out what to do when the architecture stops cooperating.
Most consultants specialize in implementation. His background includes software engineering, enterprise architecture, operational governance, and the part nobody wants to own: making sure the transition actually ships and the system still runs afterward.
His work today focuses on enterprise architecture advisory, fractional architecture leadership, and software expert witness engagements. He is based in Atlanta and is the founder of Evincia, LLC.
Strategic guidance on legacy .NET and SQL Server systems facing end-of-support deadlines, audit findings, cyber insurance requirements, or acquisition scrutiny. Covers architecture strategy, platform migration sequencing, risk evaluation, and operational stabilization. Vendor-neutral by design.
For systems that are too important to get wrong and too tangled for a vendor to evaluate without a conflict of interest.
Senior architecture capacity embedded inside the organization, running design authority, owning technical standards, leading platform transition execution when the internal team is stretched or the stakes require an architect of record.
For when you need a senior architect in the room, not a slide deck.
Consulting expert and testifying expert engagements for litigation involving enterprise software systems: implementation failures, disputed vendor deliverables, post-incident forensics, and .NET/SQL Server technical disputes. Thirty-five years inside production systems at scale means the analysis holds up under cross-examination.
If a case turns on whether a system was built or operated correctly, you want someone who has actually done it at scale, not someone who reviewed the documentation.
Software expert witness practiceAdvisory and diagnostic firm focused on legacy .NET and SQL Server platforms. Built around the Legacy Modernization Risk Report, a deterministic, Roslyn-based static analysis of enterprise systems facing cloud, AI, or platform migration pressure.
On-site delivery manager and vendor-management lead through Dexian, supporting one of Cricket Wireless' largest technology partner relationships. Architect of record for enterprise operational platforms across retail, customer care, and headquarters domains, supporting tens of millions of active subscribers. Led multi-year platform migration and system evolution across long-lived enterprise systems and cloud platforms.
Independent consulting practice serving small and mid-sized organizations on application architecture and custom .NET delivery. Running production .NET workloads on Amazon EC2 during the beta program, before most enterprises had heard of it.
Product and architecture lead for retail headquarters workforce scheduling and demand-forecasting systems used by large retail networks. Led the platform transition from C++/COM to enterprise .NET, a full architectural replatform of production workforce scheduling systems, at a company later acquired by Blue Yonder.
Joined as one of the first dozen employees. Led development of high-availability point-of-sale and retail back-office systems used by enterprise retailers worldwide. Introduced structured quality engineering practices; led early migrations from dBase and Clipper to Windows, Visual Studio, SQL Server, and C++.
U.S. Army Military Police Corps. Airborne and jungle-combat qualified. Served across Germany, Panama, and Honduras. Twice recognized with the Army Achievement Medal for service performance and non-commissioned leadership.
A productized diagnostic for legacy .NET and SQL Server systems. Built for organizations that need to modernize or adopt AI on top of infrastructure that was never designed for either. Founded in Atlanta. Microsoft stack.
For productized .NET and SQL Server diagnostic work, see Evincia LLC. This site covers advisory, fractional architecture, and expert witness engagements.
Systems that have been running for 15 or 20 years carry weight that is not visible in the codebase. Dependencies accumulate, delivery pressure shapes architecture in ways nobody documented, and sequencing a platform transition matters more than most teams expect when they start.
The point is not to modernize everything. The point is to change what needs changing without breaking what already works.
Disciplined practitioner of agentic coding workflows: Claude Code, Codex, MCP, applied with 35 years of enterprise engineering judgment. AI accelerates the work; it does not replace the judgment that determines what work is worth doing.
Best for senior leaders facing a specific architecture, platform, or litigation question. Brief context in the booking form helps.
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