Steve Pethan

About Steve Pethan

An experienced DevOps and SRE transformation leader with a passion for building highly performant teams, relentless improvement processes, and antifragile systems.

Experience

1. Director of Sre - Application

   Guidewire Software

   Mar 2024 — Present · WI, US

   Currently leading three global SRE pods with follow-the-sun support and strategic service ownership aligned to uptime goals-Championing the idea of declarative operations to reduce toil and improve consistency across environments and be a true GitOps shop-Deployed an SRE maturity and observability scorecard to help teams improve service reliability and production readiness-Leading cross-functional efforts with PM\'s, PgM\'s, Platform Engineers, and Application Engineering teams to align on shared reliability goals and scale operational excellence across the org.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

  Bachelors, Finance/Real Estate

  1992 — 1997

Skills

• Resource Management
• IT Management
• User Acceptance Testing
• Clean Code
• System Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Business Analysis
• Testing
• Sdlc
• Test Strategy
• Quality Assurance
• Leadership
• Defect Tracking
• Business Process Improvement
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Saas
• Visio
• Quality Center
• Agile Application Development
• Business Requirements
• IT Strategy
• Software Quality Assurance
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Scrum
• Program Management
• Software Project Management
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Ms Project
• Lean Thinking
• Agile Project Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Team Leadership
• Test Planning
• Test Management
• Integration
• Manual Testing
• Vendor Management