Westwind Consulting Group

Team.

Three engineers. Equal partners. We met at Grand Canyon University, built Pronghorn together, and started Westwind to do the same kind of work for the businesses that quietly run Arizona, and beyond.

PARTNER

Zachary Scharton

Founding Partner · Infrastructure & Consulting

IT consultant with five years across enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, and large-scale deployments. Currently consulting at Bionix International; previously led a 200-device branch buildout for BMO through Robert Half.

PARTNER

Benjamin Walters

Founding Partner · Systems & Security

Core engineer on the Pronghorn HPC capstone at GCU. Built a SOC lab around Wazuh, TheHive, Cortex, and Shuffle. Specializes in the cross-layer where networking, OS, identity, automation, and applications all have to work together.

PARTNER

Colby Collier

Founding Partner · Networking & Operations

Network engineer in GCU’s Network Operations Center, monitoring enterprise systems across campus. Background spans tier-one support at GCE and live-broadcast AV switching. Focused on connectivity, infrastructure reliability, and operational continuity.