Geoffrey Barth

Technology executive with 20+ years leading enterprise modernization, technology strategy, M&A integration, and transformation of core business platforms across legal, government, and enterprise environments. Track record owning budgets, teams, platforms, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and delivery while aligning technology investment with operational efficiency, scalability, risk reduction, and business growth. Combines executive leadership with deep technical expertise and a history of delivering complex transformation with minimal disruption and measurable results.

Principal Consultant | Systems & Data Architecture at Zag Consulting Group (2024 – Present)

Provide executive technology advisory and transformation leadership to a large enterprise client, focusing on enterprise operations, systems modernization, security, data architecture, automation, and operational performance.

• Advise technology and business leadership on systems architecture, operational risk, security controls, and technology priorities.
• Lead remediation of complex production, application, integration, and data issues across business-critical systems.
• Strengthen service reliability, identity and endpoint governance, incident response, and operational controls.
• Develop automation and process improvements that reduce manual effort, improve data quality, and increase operational efficiency.
• Support enterprise application modernization, systems integration, data migration, and optimization across legacy and cloud platforms.

Chief Technology Officer at Counsel Press Inc. (now Proceed Legal) (2019 – 2024)

Owned technology strategy, budget, teams, and delivery for a national legal services firm, with accountability for core platforms, engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business outcomes.

• Led design and integration of custom CRM and ERP platforms, modernizing core operational systems and improving reporting, workflow, and data quality across the business.
• Directed legacy-to-cloud migration onto virtualized AWS and remote-datacenter infrastructure, reducing physical hardware cost ~40% while strengthening resiliency and disaster-recovery posture.
• Led end-to-end technical due diligence on acquisition targets — assessing architecture, data integrity, cybersecurity posture, and integration complexity to quantify risk and valuation impact.
• Built machine-learning automation for repetitive processing workflows, cutting processing time 30%+ and redirecting capacity to higher-value work.
• Guided technology through a private-equity acquisition, realigning roadmap and priorities to new ownership objectives and leading change across technology and business teams.

Vice President of Technology at Counsel Press Inc. (now Proceed Legal) (2013 – 2019)

• Led phased process-improvement, consolidation, and virtualization initiatives across the IT estate, sequencing delivery to limit business disruption.
• Rationalized redundant systems and vendor contracts, cutting overhead and sharpening operational focus.
• Delivered real-time web dashboards for sales, finance, and operations, embedding data-driven decision-making into daily workflows.
• Owned IT budgeting, staffing, and reporting; served as strategic liaison across business units.

Information Technology Director at Counsel Press Inc. (now Proceed Legal) (2006 – 2012)

• Designed and deployed a custom web-based CRM/ERP that became the company’s operational backbone, owning the platform end to end from architecture through enterprise rollout.
• Architected and standardized hardware, software, networking, and connectivity across nationwide offices, establishing a secure national WAN and scalable technology foundation.
• Consolidated infrastructure, reduced software licensing costs 50%, and implemented redundancy across storage, web, email, and database services to improve reliability and business continuity.

WebLogic Systems Administrator / Project Manager at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (DOE) (2003 – 2006)

Built and operated clustered WebLogic application infrastructure for a national DOE research laboratory, including security, SSL, proxy servers, networking, and databases.

• Delivered the lab’s first WebLogic clustered architecture (proxy front-end to clustered back-end over SSL).
• Owned departmental systems and a $250K budget; built custom uptime/metrics monitoring and managed multiple concurrent projects.

B.S. in Computer Information Systems – St. Leo College, St. Leo, FL