About

Hi, I'm Geoff. I eliminate bottlenecks.

I start by sitting at your team’s desks to see how the work really happens: the workarounds, the Excel sheets, the sticky notes. Then I build systems that fit, using AI to handle the repetitive work so your people can focus on what matters.
Geoffrey Cestaro with his two dogs

Career

  1. Director of Technology & Operations · Norman's Electronics

    Built the shop's custom CRM, phone system and customer site from scratch: ticketing, estimates, card-on-file payments, status texting and AI email intake, replacing a legacy database and a per-seat phone plan.

  2. Systems Analyst / Product Owner · Emory University

    Led analysis and testing for IT service management and enterprise CRM systems, including a university-wide immunization compliance portal.

  3. Deputy Chief of Development Systems · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Owned the systems behind $200M+ in fundraising and led a platform implementation spanning six business units. Cut reconciliation work by 80%.

  4. Information Systems Manager · New York University Medical Center

    Owned the data pipeline behind 20,000+ donations a year into ERP and financial systems, and automated donor acknowledgements to cut response time by a third. Also audited HIPAA compliance processes.

Education

MS, Technology Management, Columbia University

BS, Information Systems Management (Minor in Database Technologies), New York University

What I bring

  • Discovery and design workshops
  • Cutover and adoption
  • User acceptance testing
  • Data integrity
  • AI pipelines with human review
  • Pricing and KPI reporting
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What's your bottleneck?

Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. Bring the thing that eats your week.

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