Built by someone who has reported from every altitude.
Crestwise grew out of 15+ years running mission-critical programs across federal, state, and enterprise environments: briefing senior executives, directing multimillion-dollar portfolios, and working the operational floor where the status report actually gets written.
By the numbers
The method came from doing all three jobs.
Most status problems come from people who have only sat at one altitude. Crestwise is built on years at each of them, often in the same week.
Supported the CTO and Senior Executive Service leadership at the FirstNet Authority. Built the investment scoring methodology used to prioritize network reinvestment, and delivered the executive briefings that decisions were made from.
Directed a $24M+ portfolio for a nationwide federal broadband network: roadmaps, change control, contracts, and risk across product, engineering, and external partners.
Led $10.6M in enterprise platform deployments with complex integrations, ran emergency response and continuity planning, and served as a USAF law enforcement patrol lead protecting critical infrastructure.
Programs where a wrong status report had consequences.
Federal broadband portfolio
Technical program manager at the FirstNet Authority, directing $24M+ in projects through strategic planning, change management, and executive reporting, with multimillion-dollar contracts and competing stakeholder priorities.
Satellite-to-device testing
Wrote the statement of work and ran the full lifecycle of FirstNet's direct-to-device satellite voice testing with a commercial satellite partner, from contract through lab and field validation to closeout, on time and under budget.
Palantir Foundry and AIP rollout
Led procurement and phased implementation, delivering near-real-time outage assessments, cyber vulnerability dashboards, and GenAI-assisted geospatial analysis, aligned with FedRAMP High requirements.
Enterprise SaaS deployments
Today, leading enterprise SaaS deployments for public sector customers, managing $10.6M in professional services projects from kickoff through customer acceptance, with integrations into existing systems and AI tooling that streamlines program operations.
FEMA and state programs
Coordinated recovery and Colorado's first statewide resiliency framework with FEMA, managed a $6.8M hazard mapping fund, and closed out state and federal grants to audit standards at Colorado DHSEM.
Records, continuity, and security
Took network operations to 100% compliance with a National Archives mandate, led business continuity through COVID-19, and worked with cyber teams to drive CJIS-aligned and FedRAMP High practices.
Corey Elliott, MIPM
Managing Partner, Crestwise
- M.S. Infrastructure Planning and Management, University of Washington
- B.A. Criminal Justice and Sociology, University of Colorado
- USAF veteran
- Palantir Foundry & AIP, Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst, Six Sigma, NGA GIS fundamentals
- Project management (University of Washington) and homeland security (University of Colorado) certificates
I've spent my career where programs carry public consequences: a nationwide federal broadband network, federal and state emergency management, and today, enterprise SaaS rollouts for public sector customers at a publicly traded software company.
Across all of it, the hardest problem was never the technology. It was getting the field, the program office, and the executive suite to agree on what was true and what “at risk” meant, in time to act. Crestwise is the discipline I built to solve that, and it works the same way whether the program is a multi-site SaaS rollout, a federal modernization effort, or a new policy that has to be adopted across an entire organization.
Some of what experience teaches can be written down. Here are the six warning signs I look for first.
Crestwise also supports capture and proposal work on competitive federal pursuits, and holds an active subcontractor agreement with a federal consulting firm.
Judgment and governance are ours. The tooling is a means, not the pitch.
“We use modern tooling to move fast, but the judgment and the governance are what you're paying for.”
Every deliverable is documentation you own: the model, the definitions, the cadence. We're not building you a dependency.
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We'll show you where your altitudes are diverging and what the reconciliation is costing you. No charge, no obligation.