DT Advanced is one senior operator, taking on problems that deserve one.
No bench. No junior team. No upsell motion. The practice exists so leaders in pharma and biotech can hire senior attention directly — the way you'd hire a surgeon, not a staffing firm.
I'm Christoph. I run this practice. I do the work.
A practitioner, not a career consultant
I've spent twenty-seven years in IT. The last ten have been in pharma and biotech — first building and scaling a global help desk operation through an acquisition, then running the entire IT function at a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company as the sole IT leader across three regions.
I'm not a career consultant who read about your industry. I've been in the audits. I've sat in the board meetings. I've built the control matrix, deployed the identity platform, shipped the production code, and hired the first help-desk tech. When I show up to an engagement, I show up with all of that — not a junior team and a slide deck.
What DT Advanced is
The practice stays one person on purpose. I write the memos. I draft the controls. I sit in the audits. I code when a piece of the platform needs me to. When you retain DT Advanced, you get me — the same brain on every call, every document, every design review. No account manager. No junior on the back-end. No hand-off to a partner I've never worked with.
I take on two engagements per quarter. That's a hard cap. It's the only way to guarantee senior attention on each of them.
What's in scope
Nine services across four capabilities: Compliance & Audit (SOX ITGC, audit committee reporting, GxP and 21 CFR Part 11 readiness), Strategy & Leadership (foundation assessments, fractional IT leadership retainers, IT department stand-ups), Platform & Build (Microsoft 365 and Azure custom applications), and AI & Emerging Tech (AI strategy, governance, and pilot delivery).
Every service is something I've shipped in the regulated environments I work in. No partner referrals. No bench.
What's out of scope
I don't do generic SMB IT consulting. I don't run 24/7 on-call. I don't manage SOC or SIEM operations. I don't sell staff augmentation. I don't do on-prem Active Directory rescues — Microsoft 365 / Entra ID is where the work is.
If that sounds narrow, it is. The practice is narrow because the people it serves are specific: pharma and biotech leaders between five and three hundred employees who have outgrown their MSP but aren't ready to hire full-time IT leadership.
Outside the work
I write occasionally about IT leadership, regulatory IT posture, and AI in regulated industries. I run the IT Career Guide channel on YouTube. I speak at small industry gatherings when the audience is right — no pay-to-play conferences.
And I keep two slots open each quarter, because a calendar you can't book is the only way to guarantee senior attention.
A practice of one, on purpose.
No bench. No junior team. No upsell motion. Senior attention, directly — the way you'd hire a surgeon, not a staffing firm.
Twenty-seven years. Seven turning points.
Launched the fractional IT services practice under DT Advanced — nine services across four capabilities, serving small to midsize pharma and biotech leaders who want senior IT attention without a firm. Two engagements per quarter. No plans to scale beyond one operator.
Designed and shipped five production-grade internal applications using Claude Code, React, Azure Static Web Apps, and Microsoft Graph — a regulatory compliance mailbox monitor, a recruiting portal, a custom HRIS, an Entra-integrated OrgChart app, and a compliance dashboard. Established AI strategy and governance for the company.
Joined Outlook Therapeutics as Director of Information Technology. Sole IT leader managing all technology operations across US, EU, and UK. Led the ERP migration to Oracle NetSuite, deployed Okta identity with SAML SSO and MFA, designed Entra ID Conditional Access policies, and built a comprehensive cybersecurity program.
Remotely onboarded 68 sales reps in a single day across four time zones. Scaled the process to onboard 420+ employees during 2020. Rescued a failing ServiceNow implementation in under 10 weeks, transitioning 800+ users from email-based support to self-service ITSM.
Joined GW Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Jazz Pharmaceuticals in 2021 for $7.2B) as Senior Manager of Global Help Desk. Built the US support operation from scratch, then scaled to lead a global operation of 18 agents across the US and UK, hitting 4.91/5.0 CSAT in the US and 4.75/5.0 in the UK.
Joined CH2M (now Jacobs Engineering) as Senior Systems Engineer. Designed the IT infrastructure for the Panama Canal widening project and supported the London 2012 Olympics joint venture. Virtualized 70% of the data center and designed parallel DR with automated failover.
Started as a Network Administrator III at Thomson Financial (later Thomson Reuters). Six years of foundational enterprise infrastructure, support, and systems engineering work.
Think there's a fit?
Every engagement starts with a thirty-minute diagnostic call. No deck, no pitch — just a conversation about whether I'm the right operator for your problem.