Data Architecture & CMDB Consulting

The single source of truth.

Every other discipline — AI governance, security, portfolio delivery — depends on knowing what you have and trusting the data that describes it. I build the CMDB and data architecture that becomes that foundation: accurate, governed, and mapped to the services your business actually runs on.

CMDB CSDM Discovery Service Mapping ITAM · HAM · SAM
01 — Why it matters

A broken CMDB doesn't just fail IT. It fails everything built on it.

Most CMDBs decay into a graveyard of stale, duplicated, and orphaned records — populated once, then never trusted again. Teams route around it, and every downstream decision inherits the doubt.

That's expensive, because the CMDB is load-bearing. Change management, incident response, asset and license optimization, security vulnerability prioritization, and now AI asset governance all rest on it. When the foundation is shaky, the whole estate is.

A CMDB done right is the opposite: a living, governed source of truth — discovered automatically, mapped to real business services through CSDM, and owned by people who trust it because it's accurate.

"You can't secure, optimize, or govern what you can't see — and you can't see it without a CMDB you trust."
— The foundation the whole estate rests on
02 — Services

From first principle to living source of truth.

S-01

CMDB Architecture & Design

Design or rebuild the CMDB from the ground up — class structure, CI relationships, data model, and the governance that keeps it trustworthy over time.

S-02

CSDM Adoption

Implement the Common Service Data Model so your data maps to real business and application services — the structure modern ServiceNow capabilities expect.

S-03

Discovery & Service Mapping

Stand up Discovery and Business Service Mapping (with MID Servers, where needed) so the CMDB populates and stays current automatically — not by hand.

S-04

Asset Management (ITAM)

Hardware and software asset management — HAM, SAM, and SAM Pro — lifecycle, license position, and the asset-to-CI alignment that drives real savings.

S-05

Data Integration

Bring in data from across the estate via Integration Hub and import sets — reconciled, de-duplicated, and normalized into one authoritative record.

S-06

Health, Governance & Remediation

Assess CMDB health, fix what's broken, and put data governance, ownership, and completeness/correctness controls in place to keep it that way.

03 — Track record

Fifteen years building the foundation, for names you know.

This is the line I've delivered longest and deepest. From early data-center and asset-management work to enterprise CMDB architecture today, I've built and rescued the source of truth for organizations that can't operate without one.

And it's the foundation the rest of ITProjX stands on — the same discipline of knowing what you own and proving you control it is exactly what AI governance, security, and portfolio delivery require.

PSM Partners
ServiceNow CMDB ArchitectArchitected data integrations into the CMDB; designed import and data-management processes with full validation and knowledge transfer.
Dell
CMDB & CSDMFinalized an enterprise CMDB implementation, introduced CSDM and service mapping, and established data governance and dashboards.
Bank of America
CMDB / ITOM PoCLed a multi-product proof of concept and gap analysis spanning CMDB, Discovery, and asset management under banking governance.
15 years
CMDB, CSDM & ITAMContinuous delivery across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, telecom, and technology.
04 — Approach

How an engagement works.

01
Assess

Audit current CMDB health, data sources, and how the estate actually uses (or avoids) it.

02
Architect

Design the class model, CSDM alignment, and governance the organization needs — not a generic template.

03
Populate

Stand up Discovery, integrations, and reconciliation so data flows in accurate and stays current.

04
Sustain

Hand over ownership, health dashboards, and the controls that keep the source of truth trustworthy.

Build a CMDB your teams actually trust.

Whether you're starting from scratch, adopting CSDM, or rescuing a CMDB that's lost credibility, let's scope the path to a living source of truth.