Steve has spent three decades in the Information Technology industry. He began his career as a Software Engineer in the intelligence, defense, and financial services industries.  Appointed CIO of the City of Pittsburgh and subsequently became CIO of two publicly traded telecom companies; FORE Systems (NASDAQ: FORE) and Crown Castle International (NYSE: CCI). As CIO, he directed the implementation of over $350M of IT systems and collectively managed over 500 personnel in seven countries on four continents. 

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Steve was a founding member of four tech startups, including two academic spin-outs from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.  He has held Director positions on five Boards with two successful liquidity events. 

 

Most recently, Steve held business development positions with Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS), supporting Fortune 500 clients, where he saw firsthand the challenges these organizations face as they began their enterprise cloud journeys.   These experiences were the catalyst to start Sirrus Consulting to address these problems head-on and unleash the power of the cloud to transform IT departments and the organizations they support.  

 

Steve received his BS in Information Systems from Robert Morris University and MPM in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University.