Steve B.

About Steve B.

Growth driven strategic thinker and relentless problem-solver. Innovative and decisive management style producing quality work on time and within budgets. Longstanding familiarity within engineering organizations utilizing modern software engineering tools, patterns, and practices. Performance-driven Leader possessing acute business sense with more than 25 years of expertise in and advancement of technical applications, product design and development, project and program management, product lifecycle management practices, cross-disciplined team leadership, risk management, and staff planning/development. • Experience directing leaders spanning Engineering, DevSecOps, Cloud Infrastructure & Operations, and Networking/Telecom. • Extensive experience leading a distributed team of dedicated high-performance software engineers in an Agile environment. • Technical expertise in software engineering practices using multiple languages and frameworks. • Highly effective at influencing teams (360°) utilizing an evangelistic communication style. • Incessant motivation to explore new technologies, to learn and to overcome unique challenges, while also challenging others. • Accountable in all situations, from tactical (response to critical issues, hot fixes, bug reconciliation, production incidents) to strategic (roadmap progression and success in support of corporate goals). • Humble enough to ask for support when needed to learn and grow, accountable for owning mistakes/failures, flexible when working with others to develop the right tech and team methodologies to achieve goals, embracing of diversity of thought/background/personality. • Driven to challenge the status quo in every way - ever curious to learn emerging technologies, embrace new challenges, think outside the box and share with others.

Experience

1. Director, Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services

   MVP Health Care

   Aug 2022 — Present · Schenectady, NY, US

   Strategic leadership of DevSecOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Networking and Telecom, and IT Operations teams • Development of enterprise-wide Cloud strategy for MVP and subsequent execution of project plans and delivery commitments. • Oversight of capital budgets, monitoring the cost and effectiveness of activities to optimize resources and prioritize spending. • Experience with Cloud computing concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) using Microsoft Azure and VMWare • Direct Leaders/developers on implementation of DevOps methodologies to increase technical agility, reducing delivery time. • Tight alignment of platform engineering solution delivery with product centric development teams. • Work with cross functional teams to ensure smooth deployments and operations of applications. • Experience using cloud technologies and tools such as Continuous Integration (Azure DevOps and Git), Continuous Deployment and Configuration Management and Provisioning Automation using Infrastructure as Code. • Oversight of data center operations in corporate headquarters along with two other satellite office sites. • Collaborative oversight with risk management in the areas of corporate audit and compliance controls. • Effective in fostering collaborative relationships with management across business units within/adjacent to Technology. • Strategic responsibility for workforce planning, collaborating with internal leadership and external partners to source high level talent on staff augmentation side as well as FTE side. • Manage vendor relationships, using defined metrics to hold parties to defined SLAs.• Foster team collaboration in a distributed environment leveraging existing digital workplace technologies. • Strive every day towards a high performing team environment, with a strong focus on relationship building, effective communication practices, goal setting etc.

Education

• State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill

  BS, Computer Science

  2001 — 2003

• State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill

  Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computer Science

  1997 — 1999