About
Pragmatic AI for regulated industries
Ohana Tech helps regulated businesses put AI to work without losing control of their data, their compliance obligations, or their costs. Our clients build medical devices and provide financing to small businesses. What they share is that a mistake in how AI is used carries consequences well beyond a bad answer.
We start with governance because it's what lets AI scale. Once a company knows what AI may touch, who is accountable for its output, and how that will be shown to an auditor or a customer, the question of where AI adds value gets much easier to answer, and much easier to act on.
Engagements are led directly by Tim McCrimmon, with delivery by Ohana's engineering team of AI specialists in the United States and Serbia. Senior AI engineers and researchers join projects when the work calls for them.
We develop our core technology in the open. The Structured Context Specification is published under Apache 2.0, so clients can see exactly how their governance is represented rather than taking it on trust.
Tim has spent his career building technology in environments where reliability and accountability are part of the job, from naval shipbuilding to enterprise software to healthcare data exchange.
Eight years as a technology executive for advanced clinical solutions. Tim designed and built Calypso, an internal platform for multi-EHR integration using FHIR and SMART on FHIR, which gave clinical and administrative applications access to patient data across health systems without a separate integration contract for each. He led Optum's technical engagement on 21st Century Cures compliance, contributed to AI-driven clinical decision support, and was the lead technology executive for prior authorization guidance initiatives.
Architect and designer for embedded systems, OpenStack, and OpenShift (Docker/Kubernetes). This is the cloud-native infrastructure that now runs AI workloads in production, and it informs how Ohana designs private AI deployments.
Software Development Product Manager across IBM's software portfolio. Tim conceived and drove the decision to open source Eclipse, which shaped his view of open standards as a way to build ecosystems that outlast any single vendor.
Product Manager for ThinkPad Accessories, including secure external storage, adapter cables, and USB-C implementations: hardware and software integration across the full product lifecycle, from specification to manufacturing.
Naval service, followed by program management for shipbuilding with the Department of the Navy.
B.S., Electrical Engineering — Rutgers University
M.S. Certificate, Healthcare Informatics — Boston University