Technology Implementation & Professional Services
David Koran & Associates helps technology companies and their customers deploy complex business, manufacturing, AI, cybersecurity, and operational systems. The practice provides onsite discovery, implementation, integration, training, project support, and multi-site deployment throughout the United States and internationally, delivered by one senior consultant with more than 30 years of technology experience.
One senior consultant your customer will remember well
- Onsite discovery, implementation, and integration at the customer facility
- Training, UAT, go-live, and stabilization support
- Multi-site and extended assignments
- United States and international travel welcomed
- Written reporting your engineering team can act on
Four connected service areas. One consultant on the ground.
Every area below is delivered the same way: hands on, onsite, in the environment where the system has to run, with written findings and reporting throughout. The four areas overlap constantly in real deployments, and clients retain the practice for the combination as often as for any one of them.
Implementation Services
The core commercial practice: getting systems from purchase order to working production use in the customer environment.
- Software implementation and systems integration
- Data migration and workflow configuration
- Technical discovery and user acceptance testing
- Go-live support, training, and post-implementation optimization
Manufacturing & Operational Technology
Implementation inside running plants, where production cannot stop for the project and records carry regulatory weight.
- ERP, MES, and QMS implementation and integration
- AI inspection and machine-vision deployment
- Production data, plant integration, and the IT and OT boundary
- Industrial cybersecurity built into the design
AI & Business Systems
AI implemented into real business processes, with the testing discipline and governance a business needs behind it.
- AI implementation and private, on-premises AI
- Document intelligence and finance automation
- Business workflow automation
- AI governance, backed by a published research library
Global Field Services
Domestic and international assignments for vendors and partners who need an experienced person at the customer facility.
- Customer discovery and system rollout
- Multi-site deployment and extended onsite assignments
- Training delivery and go-live support
- United States and international travel welcomed
If your sales create more implementation demand than you can staff, this practice increases your delivery capacity.
The practice is expanding its professional services work and supports technology vendors and implementation partners requiring experienced onsite resources for customer deployments, available throughout the United States and internationally, including extended and multi-site assignments.
Extend your delivery team without adding headcount.
Service partner and implementation programs gain a senior field resource for customer deployments, discovery visits, training, and go-lives, engaged when sales create the demand rather than carried on payroll between projects.
Senior overflow capacity for travel-heavy work.
Consultancies and implementation firms gain an independent senior consultant for overflow, specialized customer situations, and multi-site or extended assignments that need one accountable person on the ground.
US customer coverage without a US organization.
Technology companies outside the United States gain experienced onsite implementation support for their US customers without building a full US field-services organization.
Deliberately independent. Deliberately senior.
This is not a staffing firm with a bench, and it does not pretend to be one. It is one senior consultant with more than 30 years of technology breadth, which is exactly what field implementation requires: a vendor never knows what its customer's facility will present, and the person onsite either handles it or the project stalls.
01 The person briefed is the person onsite
No handoffs from the salesperson to the project manager to a rotating delivery bench. The consultant the vendor briefs is the consultant who walks the customer's floor and writes the report.
02 Breadth over specialization
Infrastructure, networking, Linux, software development, data, cybersecurity, AI, and manufacturing systems in one person, because deployments fail in the gaps between specialties. See the experience page for the full range.
03 Written evidence, always
Discovery findings, status, decisions, and handoffs are documented in writing throughout, a habit built over years of assessment and compliance work where the record is the product.
04 Comfortable in regulated environments
Aerospace, defense, and maritime experience means deployments in regulated plants are handled by someone who understands why the rules exist and what evidence the customer must keep.
The compliance advisory practice continues.
The implementation practice is built on years of cybersecurity and compliance advisory work, and that work continues. For implementation clients, it is evidence that the practice understands regulated customers. For compliance clients, the full advisory practice, research library, and service pages remain active across five areas.
CMMC & Defense Industrial Base
CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 readiness for defense contractors, supported by the most extensive content library on this site, including a book and a 110 control reference.
Maritime Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity readiness for covered vessel and facility operators, including 33 CFR Part 101, Subpart F, where those requirements apply.
C2M2 Maturity Assessments
Independent facilitated maturity assessments across IT and OT, with executive findings and a prioritized investment roadmap.
AI Governance
AI use inventories, risk assessment, policy, and alignment with the NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, with an extensive research library.
Cyber Insurance Readiness
Independent assessment for businesses facing cyber insurance placement or renewal, from unsupported answers through remediation and evidence.
Books & White Papers
Two published books and a cited white paper library across defense, maritime, and AI governance, all freely available.
CyberAB Registered Practitioner Advanced
Certified ISO 27001 Auditor
Cisco CCCA
David W. Koran
I am the founder of David Koran & Associates Inc., an independent technology implementation and professional services practice. My background is more than 30 years in information technology: infrastructure and networking, Linux and systems administration, software development, accounting and ERP systems, manufacturing technology, AI implementation, and a cybersecurity specialization dating to 2002, much of it inside manufacturing environments and other regulated operational settings where technology has to coexist with production.
I work onsite because implementation is an onsite discipline. The environment, the data, the people, and the daily operation determine whether a system succeeds, and none of those can be fully understood from a remote session. I travel to client and customer sites throughout the United States and internationally, including extended and multi-site assignments.
I hold the CyberAB Registered Practitioner Advanced credential and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications as an auditor and in implementation, and I am the author of The CMMC Decision and Cybersecurity in the Marine Transportation System, along with a library of practitioner white papers. That body of work reflects a consistent commitment to substance over salesmanship: documented ground truth, defensible findings, and work that holds up under scrutiny.
I am an independent consultant. I am not a reseller, a software vendor, or a staffing firm, and I do not carry a bench. What I offer vendors, partners, and their customers is my time, my attention, and a willingness to travel to the facility and do the work there.
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Inquiries may involve a customer deployment, a service partner or implementation program, field coverage for an international vendor, a manufacturing or AI system implementation, or the continuing compliance advisory practice. Call, email, or send a note. I respond personally to every inquiry, usually within one business day.
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