Building Predictable Revenue Operations at Scale

Thirteen years building P&L ownership, org design, and cross-functional alignment across B2B SaaS companies from $20M to $250M+ ARR.

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$4M+
ARR Protected
70%+
Services Gross Margin
90 → 14
Days Onboarding
96%
CSAT
75%
Escalations Reduced
–$300K → 42%
Loss to Gross Margin

Representative results across multiple SaaS organizations.

Organizations Where I've Built Revenue Operating Systems

Track Record

Delivery Track Record

Repeatable operating patterns applied across 4 companies, 6 teams, and 13+ years — each one built to reduce delivery risk, protect margin, and accelerate time-to-value.

LogicMonitor

Services Turnaround & Margin Restoration

Services shifted from cost center to revenue engine.

70%+ GM 96% CSAT 93% Retention

LogicMonitor

Services Turnaround & Margin Restoration

Reported to: VP of Customer Success | Scope: P&L ownership, org design, executive reporting

Challenge

Loss-making services organization running 90+ day onboarding cycles with no utilization governance or structured delivery model.

Approach

  • Productized service offerings with standardized scoping
  • Established utilization governance bands and allocation guardrails
  • Built structured onboarding framework reducing delivery cycles
  • Implemented skill-based allocation model for resource optimization

Outcome

–$300K → profitable services P&L

70%+ gross margin achieved

93% retention during transformation

96% CSAT across enterprise delivery

70%
Services Gross Margin
96%
Customer Satisfaction Score
93%
Retention During Transformation

Services shifted from cost center to revenue engine.

Next: FirstUp

FirstUp

Merger Migration & Retention Protection

Reported to: VP of Professional Services | Scope: Migration strategy, cross-functional governance

Challenge

Customer resistance during platform migration post-merger threatened retention. Risk perception — not technical complexity — was driving hesitation.

Approach

  • Built automated modular migration framework
  • Created real-time customer progress dashboard
  • Defined SLOs and governance model for visibility

Outcome

20% → 85% migration adoption

98% migration success rate

95% customer retention

75% reduction in support tickets

98%
Migration Success Rate
95%
Customer Retention
75%
Reduction in Support Tickets

Migration became a confidence lever, not a churn event.

Next: 4ME

4ME

Scaling Technical Services with Governance

Reported to: CTO | Scope: Delivery operations, capacity planning, executive dashboards

Challenge

Rapid enterprise growth without pipeline-aware capacity planning. Growth velocity outpaced delivery governance.

Approach

  • Built demand forecasting models for capacity planning
  • Established utilization and scope guardrails
  • Created executive KPI dashboards for visibility
  • Designed cross-functional operating cadence

Outcome

Reduced reactive hiring patterns

Increased margin predictability

Strengthened Sales–Delivery alignment

Governance
Replaced reactive hiring with demand forecasting
Alignment
Sales–Delivery operating in sync
Visibility
Executive KPI dashboards operational

Growth became structured — not reactive.

Next: Augmentry.ai

Augmentry.ai

Director of Engineering Operations & Services

Reported to: CEO | Scope: Engineering operations, delivery methodology

Challenge

Early-stage AI company needed to scale from prototype to enterprise delivery. No repeatable delivery process, no integration playbooks, no utilization visibility across the engineering team.

Approach

  • Designed the delivery methodology and scoping framework from zero
  • Built integration playbooks standardizing 150+ REST API integrations
  • Established cross-functional governance and skills-based project allocation
  • Created the company's first engineering utilization tracking system

Outcome

98% first-pass implementation success rate

150+ production integrations delivered under governance

Engineering utilization visible to leadership for the first time

Company operationally positioned for enterprise sales motion

98%
First-Pass Implementation Success
150+
Production Integrations Delivered
Zero → Full
Engineering Utilization Visibility

Built the delivery operating system that turned an engineering team into a scalable technical services organization.

The Operating Approach

Every engagement follows the same risk-reduction methodology — diagnose before you prescribe, measure before you scale, govern before you grow.

Diagnose

Days 0–30

Understand the system before changing it

  • Audit current delivery workflows, team structure, and escalation patterns
  • Map the gap between signed contracts and realized revenue
  • Identify the 2–3 highest-leverage operational constraints
  • Deliver a baseline operating scorecard with clear metrics

Stabilize

Days 31–60

Reduce risk and create predictable delivery

  • Implement delivery governance — review cadences, quality gates, escalation paths
  • Standardize onboarding and ramp processes for new engineers and customers
  • Introduce structured discovery and qualification practices upstream
  • Align reporting with business outcomes (margin, TTV, CSAT, utilization)

Scale

Days 61–90

Build the operating infrastructure that compounds

  • Codify repeatable playbooks for delivery, enablement, and cross-functional handoffs
  • Stand up capacity planning and resource forecasting models
  • Launch coaching and leadership development programs for emerging managers
  • Establish executive reporting rhythm connecting delivery metrics to revenue outcomes

This is the same methodology I've applied across LogicMonitor, FirstUp, 4ME, and Augmentry — adapted to each company's stage, scale, and constraints.

ENDORSEMENTS

Trusted by Cross-Functional Leaders

Farjad possesses the rare ability to go extremely deep into the details with his team and communicate those same details in a way where executives can understand.

Shazad Brohi

Engineering Leader

He helped us build an incredible and world-class organization at LogicMonitor.

Hass Johnson

Regional VP Enterprise, LogicMonitor

He never said we couldn't — he said how can we.

Ryan Reynolds

Operations Team Lead, LogicMonitor

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Insights & Perspectives

Practical frameworks on AI strategy, technical leadership, and scaling engineering organizations.

ABOUT

About

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I build the operating infrastructure that makes technical revenue predictable. Across six organizations and 13+ years, the pattern has been consistent: I enter companies where delivery has become the bottleneck to growth, diagnose the structural misalignment, and build systems that turn fragmented execution into disciplined, margin-positive operations.

I join organizations at inflection points as a full-time executive leader — owning the P&L, designing the org, hiring and developing the team, and partnering with Sales, Product, and Engineering leadership to create durable alignment. My approach is rooted in observation before action, reversible improvements before structural change, and measurement before scaling.

B.S. Computer Engineering, Michigan State University. AWS Solutions Architect Professional. Based in Austin, TX.

Author of The Executive's Guide to Large Language Models (Amazon, 2024).

AWS Solutions Architect Professional VMware Certified Professional ITIL Foundation CompTIA Security+ CompTIA Network+

Scaling revenue without delivery discipline creates invisible risk.