Colby Litnak

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AI Architect at Alianza, Inc.

Magna, Utah, United States

Overview

Colby Litnak is a seasoned AI Architect and engineering leader with over 15 years of experience in AI, ML, and data engineering. A graduate of the University of Utahs MBA program, he has a proven track record of transforming development teams and driving project efficiency, notably increasing predictability by 80% in a previous role.

Outside of his direct professional responsibilities, Colby is a passionate advocate for continuous improvement, both for himself and his teams. He champions the philosophy that professionals must practice, teach, and learn. He also enjoys participating in collaborative events like company hackathons and is interested in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He successfully convinced leadership at a previous company to dedicate every Friday afternoon to developer learning and personal development.

Personality Overview

Generally Skeptic

Fast But Wary

Features Driven

They prefer to move quickly, and expect the same from others.  They do not care very much about building rapport or relationships. They like to stay in control of the negotiation or defining of the terms.

Topics They Care About

Continuous Learning
He believes in a “trifecta” approach to development: practice, teach, and learn. He secured dedicated weekly time for his engineering teams to focus on learning.
Team Development
He has a history of building onboarding and training curriculums to upskill new hires, interns, and teams of up to 50 engineers on new technologies like Java.
Agile Transformation
As a leader, he adopted scrum/kanban methodologies to increase his department's project predictability from 20% to 80%, significantly boosting efficiency and resource management.

Media Appearances

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Work History

7-2024
AI Architect at Alianza, Inc.
11-2023
AI Solutions Manager at Software Technology Group
8-2021 - 11-2023
Director, Data and Integration Services at MasterControl
10-2019 - 4-2022
Senior Enterprise Architect at MasterControl
11-2013 - 10-2019
Architecture/Development Manager at MasterControl

Education

2018 - 2020
Master of Business Administration - MBA from University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business
2009 - 2010
Masters of Science from University of Utah

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Insights For Selling To Colby

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Hold your ground without indulging in one-upmanship
  • Use phrases like ‘it’s your decision’, ‘strategic impact’ etc.
  • Refer to testimonials from well-known industry leaders

DONT's

  • Don’t focus on process and rules, give the impression of being a ‘gets it done’ person
  • Don’t take too much time in sending them information if they ask for any
  • Don't try too hard to forge relationships with them

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Colby is

  • Conviction around the impact matters the most to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Colby

  • If they decide not to use your product, they will say no clearly.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Colby move?

  • If convinced, they can reach decisions quite fast.
  • Can Colby take some risk or not?

  • They do not shy away from taking risks, but can be quite binary about them.

You And Colby

Personality Compatibility


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