About Align Solutions

Practical solutions built around the way your business actually operates

Align Solutions is a veteran-owned management consulting firm helping project-driven organizations improve their processes, systems, and ability to execute.

We work with businesses facing complex projects, disconnected workflows, limited visibility, inconsistent processes, and operational challenges that cannot be solved by simply adding another spreadsheet, meeting, or isolated procedure.

Our purpose is to create practical solutions that work together across people, processes, technology, responsibilities, and business objectives.

Why Align Solutions

Finding a possible solution is often the easy part.

The harder work is determining whether that solution addresses the right problem, fits the organization, supports the people responsible for using it, and works alongside everything already in place.

That is the principle behind the Align Solutions approach:

Solve

Identify the underlying need and develop a practical response.

Align

Connect the solution with the organization’s people, processes, systems, and objectives.

Deliver

Provide the tools, structure, training, and support needed to put the solution into practice and sustain it.

What We Believe

Effective consulting should leave an organization more capable—not more dependent.

Our work is guided by several principles:

• Understand the problem before recommending the solution

• Build around real operating conditions

• Keep systems practical and maintainable

• Create clear ownership and accountability

• Give decision-makers useful and accurate visibility

• Prepare the client’s team to operate and improve the solution

• Measure success through adoption and business results—not presentation slides

Global Experience. Practical Leadership.

Align Solutions was founded and is led by Maxwell Fasten, MBA, PMP, a manufacturing and project-management leader with experience directing complex programs, developing project-management organizations, improving operational processes, and designing integrated business systems.

Maxwell has worked with international and cross-functional teams across the United States, Germany, Mexico, Kuwait, South Africa and Afghanistan. His experience includes leading teams ranging from 10 to more than 150 people and supporting complex projects valued from approximately $5 million to $50 million; managing a portfolios off over $100 million.

Working across different countries, cultures, organizations, and operating environments has shaped a practical leadership philosophy: successful solutions must account for the people expected to use them, the systems already in place, and the realities of execution.

His experience includes:

• International project and portfolio leadership

• Teams ranging from 5 to more than 150 people

• Projects valued from $3 million to $50 million

• Automotive manufacturing and industrial automation

• ERP exploitation and force enabling

• Project Management Office development

• Project governance and phase-gate systems development

• Operational process improvement

• Smartsheet system architecture and administration

• Executive reporting and business intelligence

• Team development, training, and coaching

• Change, schedule, and financial management

Education and Credentials

Maxwell’s background combines engineering, business management, project leadership, and systems development:

• Master of Business Administration

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology

• Project Management Professional — PMP

• Smartsheet Project Management Certified

This combination provides both the technical understanding to evaluate complex operations and the business perspective required to align solutions with organizational priorities.

Veteran-Owned

Align Solutions is proudly veteran-owned.

Maxwell’s military service included assignments in Kuwait, Afghanistan, and southern Iraq. The business reflects values strengthened through that experience: accountability, preparation, adaptability, direct communication, commitment to the mission, and supporting the team.

Built to Work Alongside Your Organization

Align Solutions operates as an extension of the client’s organization. Engagements are structured around the specific challenge and may include assessment, advisory support, system development, implementation, training, or hands-on project leadership.

Whether the need is a focused improvement or a broader operating system, the objective remains the same:

Solve the right problem. Align the solution. Deliver a sustainable result.

Start With the Problem

Every engagement begins with a conversation about the current condition, the desired outcome, and what may be preventing the organization from getting there.

Contact Align Solutions to schedule an initial discovery conversation.