Planning · Protection · Oversight
Your part-time IT leader.
Senior IT leadership for small businesses — planning, protection, and oversight from someone who has done the work, at a fraction of a full-time CIO salary.
Most small businesses don’t have an IT problem. They have an IT question with no owner.
Your vendors handle their slice. A part-time tech fixes what breaks. But nobody owns the whole picture — growth, security, budget, and vendors together — and nobody is accountable for the strategy behind the spend. That’s the gap Hummel LLC fills: a senior IT leader in your corner, a few hours a week.
What you get
One senior technologist. Real work behind the advice.
- Quarterly or periodic planning and a technology roadmap
- Network and security assessments, backup and disaster-recovery planning
- Budget guidance and vendor oversight — you understand what you’re paying for
- IT policies, onboarding/offboarding, incident-response guidance
Grounded in hands-on experience — not consulting slideware.
Why us
Why Hummel LLC
Founder-led and senior
15+ years running real fleets (networks, security, virtualization, VMware/Hyper-V, vendor stacks). Not a ticket queue.
Small by design
Few clients on purpose; the client talks to the person doing the work.
Remote-first, Columbia-rooted
Whole-country reach; local anchor and optional on-site visits.
Compliance-aware by habit
Proven PCI environment experience; at home in the audit and insurance conversations healthcare, legal, and finance face.
Straight talk
Why small businesses care — straight talk.
Small and mid-size businesses are attacked about four times more often than large firms (Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report — directional context, attributed). Nobody’s trying to scare you: you don’t need to be scared. You need a plan. That’s the job.