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AI — Advisory & Implementation Healthcare Systems Microsoft M365 & Azure Healthcare Data Integrity
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People make the difference, and our experience shows that.

Chesapeake Systems is a Baltimore-based IT consultancy specializing in the leadership and delivery of complex enterprise projects.

20+
years of enterprise IT delivery
$100M+
largest enterprise project led
Baltimore
Maryland-based, nationally engaged

Chesapeake Systems was built by seasoned experts who know technology.

We know people make all the difference because we’ve been the managers inside large organizations — we’ve sat on your side of the table, hired the consultants, and lived with the results. That’s how we know what true value from a consulting partner looks like: proactive, can-do expertise; proven but flexible methodologies; and outstanding reporting and service, every engagement, every week.

What we believe

The principles behind the work.

Consulting value

Consultants are hired for expertise — but the best ones are kept for guidance. Anyone can execute a task list; real value is helping leadership see around corners, framing the decision before it becomes a crisis, and leaving your team stronger than we found it.

Our team

Because people impact projects more than anything else, we treat hiring as a discipline. We leverage best practices in employee engagement and technical development to attract and keep the best — and it shows in what we deliver.

The method serves the project

Waterfall, agile, hybrid, or your own framework — we adapt to what the work needs, instead of forcing the work into our process.

Outcomes, not activity

A busy project isn’t the same as a successful one. We measure ourselves by whether the project actually lands.

How we help

Leadership, advisory, execution — and operations.

Project Leadership

Specialist project and project managers who lead from real technical depth — owning scope, risk, vendors, and stakeholder alignment from day one. And when a project has already drifted, our proven rescue process diagnoses root cause, stabilizes the work, and returns it to predictable delivery.

Advisory Services

Strategy and C-level support grounded in delivery reality — technology roadmaps, build-vs-buy and vendor selection, business cases leadership can defend, and a trusted seat at the table through a project’s most consequential decisions.

Technical Services

Senior engineers, hands-on — integration, cloud and infrastructure, data engineering, implementation, and the testing rigor that makes go-live day uneventful. Execution capacity, not another slide deck.

Operational Services

Ongoing operations run by specialists inside your systems — data-integrity stewardship, error queue management, release of information, identity provisioning, and managed support that scales up for a surge and down for steady state.

Leadership

Founded by an operator.

Brian Reno, Founder and Principal of Chesapeake Systems
Brian Reno · Founder & Principal

Over 20 years in the industry — on your side of the table first.

Brian has spent more than two decades leading enterprise IT — nominated for the annual management award at Johns Hopkins and recognized by Microsoft MVPs for outstanding leadership.

He managed the technical stack of a $100M Epic go-live — the infrastructure, integration, conversion, and third-party systems behind one of healthcare’s most demanding project types.

He has helped architect several SaaS solutions across project management, CRM, and supply chain management, and is currently the lead architect of Eagle AI, our AI governance and implementation platform. Today he builds solutions hands-on with Claude AI, ChatGPT, and Copilot.

MBA Johns Hopkins Management Cohort 5 Technical Certifications 8 Additional Technical Trainings Lead Architect · Eagle AI
Proof in practice

See how this plays out on real projects.

Representative engagements across our four practices — the patterns, the outcomes, and the way we work.

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