A note ยท 2026-05-10 ยท ๐Ÿงฒ

The four-lane title (and the routing layer inside it).

For an ops leader whose LinkedIn title is four disciplines stacked with slashes. That's not a job description โ€” that's a routing-layer diagram. I think you already know that.

PJ Zonis ยท SideGuy Solutions
PJ Zonis Single operator ยท SideGuy Solutions ยท Encinitas ยท The human routing layer between operators and the systems they already paid for โ€” about โ†’

What your title actually says

Most VPs of Operations have a single line. Yours has four. I read it twice because the second read it stopped being a title and started being a system diagram:

Healthcare Operations & Strategy โ€” the throughline Project Management & Change Facilitator โ€” the verb that moves work between people Leadership & Professional Development Advocate โ€” the layer underneath everything that determines whether the work sticks Technology Transformation & Implementation โ€” the seam where tools meet the humans who are supposed to use them

Four lanes, one person. That's not someone doing one job in a department. That's someone routing across disciplines that most companies break into four separate departments and then can't get to talk to each other. The slashes ARE the value.

Why I read it as a routing layer

Tech transformation projects fail at the seams โ€” between the platform team that owns the tool, the operations team that's supposed to absorb it, the L&D team that's supposed to train into it, and the leadership cohort that's supposed to model the new behavior. Most orgs have a person for each seam. The seams don't get covered, they get owned. There's a difference.

A title that says "I do the change-facilitation AND the leadership-development AND the implementation" is a person who has decided to stand IN the seam instead of next to it. That's expensive, rare, and the only configuration where transformation projects actually land in healthcare environments where HIPAA + clinical workflow + change-fatigue gang up on every initiative.

Most enterprise transformation projects don't fail at the tool. They fail at the routing between the four roles your title already names. The slashes are doing the work.

The lane I work, in one paragraph

SideGuy is the same shape one level lower โ€” a human routing layer for operators who own the seam between AI/software vendors and the people who actually have to use what got bought. No SOWs, no decks, no implementation team to manage. Async, flat-priced, single operator. The work that lands looks like: "we paid for [Vanta / Drata / HubSpot / Make / ChatGPT enterprise / pick one], and the team six months later is using it at 20% of what we bought." I show up, translate the platform into the workflow, route the human-side decisions, and leave behind a stack people actually use. The four-lanes-in-one-title shape is exactly the read I have on my own work.

Where our lanes touch (and don't)

Adjacent lanes, same shape
Enterprise scale (your lane)
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SMB + operator scale (mine)
Healthcare / HIPAA / clinical
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Compliance / AI / software stack
Internal change facilitation
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External operator translation
Standing in the seam at one company
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Standing in the seam across many

Why I'm reaching out (and the Encinitas bit)

Two reasons. One โ€” the Prospeo enrichment on your record came back Encinitas, which means we might be actual neighbors and I keep a soft-priority list for operators in the 92024 zip whose work I respect. Two โ€” you just hit one year at Medical Solutions and posted a reflection. People who write reflections at the one-year mark are people who think about the seam, not just the title. That's the profile I learn from in conversations, not the profile I pitch.

The ask is small

No meeting, no demo, no deck. If anything in this read tracks โ€” either the routing-layer framing, or the operator-translation lane, or the "we might be Encinitas neighbors" coincidence โ€” the next step is a text. If it doesn't, no follow-ups, no funnel, no sequence. (You'd notice if there was one anyway. The fact that this is a custom HTML page and not a templated email is the proof.)

If reading a LinkedIn title as a system diagram is the kind of move you wish more outreach made, share this with an operator who'd appreciate the craft.
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PJ Zonis ยท SideGuy Solutions ยท Encinitas
Single operator. Async-first. Text-driven. Human routing layer between operators and the systems they already paid for.
Text me at 858-461-8054 if any of this lands. Otherwise, respect โ€” keep standing in the seam.
PJ Text PJ 858-461-8054
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