Steve Wheeler

About Steve Wheeler

Multifaceted, challenge-driven, and goal-oriented professional, wi the broad experience…

Experience

1. Director of IT Applications, Architecture, & Analytics

   Ruan Transportation Management Systems

   Jul 2020 — Present

   Delivered the new RAMS platform (Ruan Asset Management System) to manage all assets and maintenance across a $1.3B transportation company - Transforming the company approach to data management and reporting by pushing for, and implementing, the Data Lake in Azure leveraging Synapse and Delta Lake technology - this has enabled new insights (and at speed and scale) into data that haven\'t been possible previously, enables AI capabilities, and vastly improves the way our clients can see metrics on how we deliver for them - Maturing our API services via the implementation of API Gateways to control entry points, development of our Microservices Architecture to speed calls - improve performance - and control data, and implementation of cloud queuing to improve the resiliency of our services - eliminate downtime - and improve the customer experience - Implementation of DevOps practices - Ownership of 5 of the companies top 6 strategic initiatives, and the creation/maintenance/execution of the roadmaps for: the Mobile platform, Cloud Engineering & the Data Lake, Customer Portal, Integrated Solutions, and Warehousing - Accountability for Application Development, Software Architecture, Database Administration, Data Integration (BizTalk/API/EDI), Data Analytics, the Delta/Data Lake in Azure, Artificial Intelligence (AI), QA (Manual & Automated), Mobile Applications, Mobile hardware (phones, tablets, and hardware used to install devices in trucks)- Management of multiple strategic vendor partnerships - Refinement and ownership of our SDLC and Agile processes - Monitoring of technology trends and best practices impacting the transportation industry to move the organization forward

Education

• Culver-Stockton College

  B.S., Business Managment & Psychology

  1993 — 1996

• Upper Iowa University

  Masters, Business Leadership / Total Quality Management

  1999 — 2001

Skills

• Devops
• Project Portfolio Management
• Insurance
• Systems Analysis
• Pmp
• Pmo
• Business Analysis
• Sdlc
• Waterfall
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Process Improvement
• Vendor Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Agile Methodologies
• Management