Meet John
The person behind the system.
I’m John Colvin. For 14 years I’ve worked inside oilfield services, manufacturing and building-systems operations as the person between the business and IT — the one who makes stuck things move. I’ve run Microsoft 365 at global scale, built on the Power Platform, and led process and quality programs.
Syncretic Systems brings that same toolkit to businesses that don’t have a team like that in-house.
How I work
House rules.
- 01 Start where the work happens. I learn your operation from the ground up, not from the org chart.
- 02 Use what you already own. Before you buy another app, let’s make the ones you have work together.
- 03 Smallest useful thing first. Something that helps this month beats a grand plan that lands next year.
- 04 Adoption is the deliverable. If your team doesn’t use it, it isn’t done. I train by showing, not by memo.
- 05 No black boxes. Everything documented, owned by you, and handed off clean.
- 06 AI-accelerated, human-accountable. AI helps me move fast. I own every result.
Let’s connect the dots.
Tell me what’s slowing you down. Thirty minutes, no pitch deck — just a straight answer on what I’d fix first.