About me

I'm interested in the distance between the slide and the system.

Patrick Phillips

The short version

I'm a technology executive, lifelong builder, and student of how organizations change.

I currently lead technology strategy as Chief Information Officer at Vasion. Before that, I spent more than two decades working across engineering, IT, operations, and large-scale transformation.

I've learned that the hard part is rarely recognizing a promising technology. The hard part is building the operating model, trust, governance, architecture, and leadership habits that let it produce durable value.

That is what I write about here. Sometimes it is enterprise AI and agentic systems. Sometimes it is security, productivity, organizational design, or wonder. The common thread is a desire to understand what the change means once real people and real institutions have to live with it.

20+ years

Leading technology

Engineering, IT, enterprise architecture, operations, and transformation.

Still building

Learning through use

I test ideas by making systems, not merely commenting on them.

In public

Writing to think

Essays are how I pressure-test an argument and invite better ones.

Elsewhere

Keep the conversation going.