IT leadership for Northeast Ohio.
Software delivery from Croatia.
Strategy. Technology. Results.
Babic Consulting is the fractional CIO/CTO for manufacturers and multi-site organizations across Northeast Ohio — backed by our own software development team in Croatia. Microsoft 365, Azure and Power Platform expertise. Engineering-led. 25+ years of delivery.
25+
Years in IT leadership
$60M+
Client revenue under IT management
350
Employees in largest org supported
2
Operating companies — USA & EU
One Firm. Two Continents.
A US consulting company and a Croatian operating company — under one owner, with one standard of accountability.
IT Leadership in the USA
Fractional CIO/CTO services for manufacturers, nonprofits, and multi-site organizations: technology strategy and budgeting, cybersecurity, cloud architecture, vendor management, and the hands-on engineering to actually deliver it. One contracted leader instead of an executive salary — with Fortune 50 process discipline.
Fractional CIO/CTO servicesSoftware Development in the EU
Our registered company in Zadar, Croatia employs our development team directly. We build custom software, Power Platform solutions, and automation, with Andrew leading each engagement and coordinating delivery across the US and Croatian teams.
Development servicesWhat We Do
From the server room to the boardroom — strategy, security, software, and the infrastructure underneath it all.
Fractional CIO/CTO
Executive IT leadership without the executive payroll. Strategy, budgeting, vendor management, and hands-on delivery for organizations of 50–350 employees.
Software Development
Our own development team in Croatia builds custom SaaS systems, Power Apps, SharePoint automation, and cloud web solutions — EU-based development with US-led delivery.
Cybersecurity & Managed IT
Firewall administration, MFA and identity governance, backups and disaster recovery, vulnerability and penetration testing for multi-site operations.
Business Intelligence & Automation
Fortune 50 BI experience plus Lean Six Sigma discipline — KPI dashboards, workflow automation, and practical AI: private language models, document and records extraction, and forecasting that gets measured against reality.
Data Center & Compute Infrastructure
Engineering-led facility design: power and cooling economics, electrical buildout, hardware selection, and operating cost analysis for high-density compute.
Selected Work & Career Experience
Examples of operational delivery, alongside earlier enterprise experience.
Aerospace Manufacturer
$35M annual revenue · ~350 employees · multiple locations
Full enterprise IT leadership as contracted IT Director: multi-site infrastructure, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and production workflow automation across a complex manufacturing environment.
Multiple Diocesan Organizations
21+ locations across 8 counties · 150+ years of records
Built and operate a geospatial management platform with GPS site tagging and mobile guidance, digitized over a century of records, and deployed Azure cloud services organization-wide.
Fortune 50 Insurer — Prior Career Role
Business intelligence & process consulting
Owned policy-servicing and customer-platform data warehouses, delivered BI solutions, and automated internal business processes at one of America’s largest insurers.
Global Presence
Two registered companies, strategically located to serve clients across North America and Europe.
United States
Cleveland, Ohio
Babic Consulting LLC — Northeast Ohio
European Union
Zadar, Croatia
Babic Consulting d.o.o. — EU operations & development team
Engineering in practice
Cemetery Brain: self-hosted knowledge infrastructure
We moved a stalled indexing workflow onto an NVIDIA-equipped server, restored unattended publishing, and measured approximately 16× higher embedding throughput in a bounded benchmark. The September 2 catalog contained more than 143,000 searchable passages.
Read the case studyYour IT Should Be Driving Growth, Not Overhead
Whether you need an executive technology leader, a development team, AI that actually holds up in production — or all three — start with a direct conversation with the engineer who will own the outcome.