Cloud Architect

Passionate about cloud storage and compute.  Stephen believes that this technology will present unlimited storage and compute power for both business and home use.  Home users will no longer need to purchase expensive hardware and deal with back-ups, upgrades, and maintenance.  The cloud will allow the home to simply purchase  high-end terminals (e.g., TVs) and use them to connect to cloud resources.

The cloud will empower software development to no longer invest in costly laboratories.  Developers will simply use cloud virtual machines and storage to create products in a more efficient manner.

Stephen is a student of cloud storage APIs and is focusing on how to map them to Unix file systems.  Cloud storage cannot use locking so that it will easily scale.  Locking has essentially been pushed up to the application layer.  He is fascinated by the resulting ramifications and how applications can use global storage with cloud storage synchronization techniques.

Software Architect

As a patented software architect, Stephen is passionate about innovation, prototyping, and creating new tools to solve complex leading-edge business problems.  He is an expert in Unix, embedded OS, storage systems, real-time applications, online analytical processing, and high performance file systems.  He is also versatile in Linux, VxWorks, Cisco IOS, AT&T Plan9, Tandem Guardian, and AT&T Unix.

Project Management

Over the years Stephen has effectively driven cross-functional teams to launch new products and upgrade existing ones.  He is able to sift through varying dependencies, aggressive timelines, and problematic coding issues to deliver exceptional results that support business strategies and leverage market advantage.

Strategic Planning

Team Leadership & Collaboration

As a seasoned project manager and mentor,  Stephen has lead teams through varying dependencies, aggressive timelines, problematic coding issues to deliver exceptional results that support business strategies and leverage market advantage.

Troubleshooting

With a proven track record, Stephen has as a reputation for troubleshooting and fixing complex problems.  By using techniques that pinpoint coding erorrs, he has a history of quickly solving large-scale and high-profile problems.  Success is judged by not only solving the problem but managing relationships.  Communicating with clients and end-users in the field, he is able to engage them in the process and deliver immediate and lasting solutions to a variety of coding and system problems.

Specialties

Linux, Apache, XML, Web Services, REST, SOAP, C, Shell, VxWorks, Cisco IOS, MySQL, SQL, OLAP, OLTP, Python, OpenStack, Ubuntu, and MIPS.