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Steve Calderoni [email protected] | Boulder, CO 80305 | 303-641-6591 Vice President of IT Instrumental in design of IT infrastructure, Security and data storage solutions for technology startups as well as leading technology companies: IBM, Level (3), Qwest. Proven ability to partner with executive teams to integrate business vision with technology framework to meet demands of global growth, cost reduction, merger and acquisition technology due diligence and post-merger integration. Design and implement robust, scalable, cost-effective technology environments with 99.99% uptime. Architect and design enterprise wide solutions including cloud applications, internal applications, storage, network, telecommunications and security. Expert in both cloud implementation and cloud systems creation supporting high availability SaaS and client site systems in Amazon EC2 and other offerings. Create and implement IT governance plans to ensure productivity, security, and compliance to licensing agreements. Strong fiscal management, developing business cases, forecasting demands, and delivering best- value solutions. Negotiate innovative agreements with world-class software, hardware, network, storage, communications, and security vendors. Versed in technical due diligence processes in support of M&A (mergers and acquisitions) assessing risks, costs, and benefits of technology integration; designing and implementing elegant technology platforms for new entities. Hardware / Software Experience Storage Engineering: Nimble, Data Domain, NetApp, EMC Celerra CNS, EMC NS600/700/NS480/VNX EMC Symmetrix 8000/DMX, EMC Clariion CX600/700, Network Appliance R150. R250 900 Series Filer, HDS 5600/5700/9800 Series, HP/Compaq E7000, Spectra Logic Gator 64k, Brocade, EMC Connectrix (McData) Network/Security Engineering: Nessus, Back Track, Cisco routers, VPN and firewalls, WAN / LAN, Brocade/Foundry load balancers and switches (Turbo Iron, FCX, Fast Iron), BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, MPLS networks, packet analysis, performance analysis and improvement, Snort, Squid Proxy, Barracuda WAF, Sonicwall Other Tools: MS Lync, Office 365, Amazon AWS, Manage Engine, Rally, On Time, McAfee EPO, Nagios, Cacti, Terminal Services, Microsoft Exchange, Exceed, Veritas Netbackup, MS-SQL, Oracle, Sniffer Pro, NetIQ, Antigen, IIS, Apache, DNS (MS DNS, Linux Bind 9), Windows Media Services, RealServer, VisiXP, MS Project, Citrix Server, Quake Arena Operating Systems: Windows Server and Workstation, Linux, Mac OSX Professional Experience EcoSys Inc. – Massive Scale Project Controls Software, Broomfield, 2013 to Present Vice President of IT Hired to effectively rebuild the company infrastructure from scratch, establish processes and procedures to stabilize the company so the company could graduate to the next level of business taking the shipped software product to a SaaS platform. Steve Calderoni | [email protected] | 303-641-6591

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Steve [email protected] | Boulder, CO 80305 | 303-641-6591

Vice President of IT

Instrumental in design of IT infrastructure, Security and data storage solutions for technology startups as well as leading technology companies: IBM, Level (3), Qwest.

Proven ability to partner with executive teams to integrate business vision with technology framework to meet demands of global growth, cost reduction, merger and acquisition technology due diligence and post-merger integration.

Design and implement robust, scalable, cost-effective technology environments with 99.99% uptime. Architect and design enterprise wide solutions including cloud applications, internal applications, storage, network, telecommunications and security.

Expert in both cloud implementation and cloud systems creation supporting high availability SaaS and client site systems in Amazon EC2 and other offerings.

Create and implement IT governance plans to ensure productivity, security, and compliance to licensing agreements. Strong fiscal management, developing business cases, forecasting demands, and delivering best-value solutions. Negotiate innovative

agreements with world-class software, hardware, network, storage, communications, and security vendors. Versed in technical due diligence processes in support of M&A (mergers and acquisitions) assessing risks, costs, and benefits of technology

integration; designing and implementing elegant technology platforms for new entities.

Hardware / Software ExperienceStorage Engineering: Nimble, Data Domain, NetApp, EMC Celerra CNS, EMC NS600/700/NS480/VNX EMC Symmetrix 8000/DMX, EMC Clariion CX600/700, Network Appliance R150. R250 900 Series Filer, HDS 5600/5700/9800 Series, HP/Compaq E7000, Spectra Logic Gator 64k, Brocade, EMC Connectrix (McData)Network/Security Engineering: Nessus, Back Track, Cisco routers, VPN and firewalls, WAN / LAN, Brocade/Foundry load balancers and switches (Turbo Iron, FCX, Fast Iron), BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, MPLS networks, packet analysis, performance analysis and improvement, Snort, Squid Proxy, Barracuda WAF, SonicwallOther Tools: MS Lync, Office 365, Amazon AWS, Manage Engine, Rally, On Time, McAfee EPO, Nagios, Cacti, Terminal Services, Microsoft Exchange, Exceed, Veritas Netbackup, MS-SQL, Oracle, Sniffer Pro, NetIQ, Antigen, IIS, Apache, DNS (MS DNS, Linux Bind 9), Windows Media Services, RealServer, VisiXP, MS Project, Citrix Server, Quake ArenaOperating Systems: Windows Server and Workstation, Linux, Mac OSX

Professional Experience

EcoSys Inc. – Massive Scale Project Controls Software, Broomfield, 2013 to PresentVice President of IT

Hired to effectively rebuild the company infrastructure from scratch, establish processes and procedures to stabilize the company so the company could graduate to the next level of business taking the shipped software product to a SaaS platform. Locations include 2 offices, 1 data center and 4 VPCs in Amazon AWS with a sizable remote only workforce.

Responsibilities include: Manage purchasing and budget for IT creating cost benefit analysis to ensure services and equipment purchased were the right fit for long term success Assist sales in creating hosted customer quotes and configurations Manage and mentor team of highly talented IT professionals setting appropriate goals and objectives Manage and guide projects for IT which could include other teams Work with Professional Services to ensure customer success for both on prem and hosted installations Partner with peers and leadership to ensure that systems and procedures established are understood and work for the various business units Maintain, upgrade and manage high availability computing environment to ensure the success of the company Look forward to the next steps of the environment to ensure that systems are always evolving to keep up with the demands of a growing company Create and maintain processes and procedures for IT systems, purchasing and maintenance Manage vendor relationships

Accomplishments Include: Converted all accounting and all vendors to an invoicing model rather than using an American Express to purchase all IT hardware, services and software. Created growth road map to ensure that when key check points are reached the expansion of the systems would be initiated ensuring performance and

uptime to the customer Created IT team member metrics and reporting to track effectiveness of the team regarding tickets and time to close

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Rebuilt the IT team with top candidates Created budget planning for year over year spending Performed full software audit and brought the company compliant for all Microsoft and Adobe products. Established volume licensing agreement with MS

and converted all Adobe licensing to Creative Cloud Establish business continuity for all IT systems Established the companies first on call rotation Work closely with Development and QA on system issues and performance. Work closely with Sales to establish pricing for managed hosted services and assist with demos and / or technical questions as needed. Stabilization of the systems and network by examining the infrastructure and making key improvements Adding several layers of needed security including virus scanning, intrusion detection, system updates, PEN testing and policies regarding system access. Established security procedures and protocols to track and validate system access and migrated to a named user model rather than everyone knowing

global accounts such as administrator and root. Established for McAfee virus scan and threat management suite including MX Logic email scanning and host detection and prevention services Rebuilt the Active Directory structure to have meaning and file objects into OUs that reflected their use Rebuilt the group policy objects to improve performance and consolidate rules over OUs where they belong Rebuilt the MS Lync VoIP Phone system from scratch partnering with an outside firm to ensure the success of the project Rebuilt VMware environment from scratch adding various automation procedures to control VM sprawl and archive unneeded VMs. Implemented a log event management system to capture all events from systems and report on those events. Implemented high performance SAN solution based on Nimble so VMware systems could fail over between hosts. Established monitoring using Nagios / Centreon and Site 24x7 and created a customer dashboard so internal and external clients see system uptime and

performance metric for themselves at any time. This was also helpful when performance was in question. Established cloud presence in AWS and connected the environment to the LAN/WAN in such a way as to blur the lines between on prem and cloud servers

so much so that users were normally unaware if a server was in the cloud or on prem Build the companies first hosting environment using Amazon AWS as the platform Fully scripted and automated the backup of the product to capture all configuration and data for each server which included auto detection of the

database being Oracle or MS SQL. Established a proper enterprise backup solution within the data center and in Amazon AWS Migrated company to Office 365 and established SharePoint as the company Intranet site Created an asset management system based on Asset Explorer to track system ownership and depreciation. Implemented the Barracuda WAF as a reverse proxy to protect the 115 VMs that need to be on the internet for various sales demos, customer support etc Using VMWare templates, SCCM and Chef led the team in creating methods of configuring servers and workstations with standard configurations Completed a full review and rebuild of the firewalls reducing the rules from over 350 down to 24 meaningful rules Migrated to new MPLS provider with no user down time Created more effective remote worker options for at home team members and team members based on other countries such as the UK and Australia Rebuilt the ticketing system based on Novo and cleaned up the configuration to improve performance. Also, recreated the reports to increase accuracy

and provide meaningful data on tickets to track team performance

MARKET FORCE INFORMATION – Customer Experience Consulting for retail and hospitality clients, Louisville, CO 2006 –2013Sr. Director of IT Operations and SecurityHired during early startup phase. Built corporate infrastructure to support rapid growth from 7 to 550 employees, 3 data centers, and 5 call center, sales and support operations offices in 3 US states and 6 countries

Lead team of 10 Systems Engineers and 3 DBAs in 3 countries in a full-service IT organization which includes Storage, Systems, Network, Telecommunications, Security, Help Desk, Database Administration, Monitoring and Facilities. Create documentation, network diagrams, work flow charts, and other tools to ensure IT productivity.

Work hands on with the team on networking, firewalls, servers and other activities. Act as storage subject matter expert for the teams and help train team members to increase their knowledge of storage Implemented Amazon EC2 systems as a data center extension for client experience systems and to create a more expandable environment. Led project management efforts for IT centric projects pulling resources from outside groups as needed. Implemented Agile processes within helpdesk, DBA, and SysAdmin projects to better track and complete initiatives on time and provide metrics on the value of

IT. Responsible for overseeing all aspects of IT security including physical office security, systems hardening, firewalls, PEN Testing and remediation, Personal

Information protection and management, risk mitigation and user training. Assist in leading QA and Development efforts surrounding enhancements and bug fixes to primary platforms. Work closely with Sales in launch of new products and services to customers and assist large clients with technical difficulties. Support Sales developing

proposals, ensuring accurate response to technical questions of client RFPs. Direct the design, management and upkeep of the storage, server, network, telecommunications, desktop, mobile and security systems of the company.

Implement and manage security audits and updates on all systems. Partner with Legal and Executive team in due diligence of technical aspects of proposed mergers and acquisitions. Manage post-merger integration projects. Work closely with QA and Development teams in creation of seamless processes for upgrades and product launches. Control complex IT and company-wide capital expense budget. Evaluate, negotiate, and purchase technology solutions. Negotiate complex contracts with

technology vendors and service providers to obtain the best pricing possible along with the best service and commitments. Support enterprise network and systems as an individual contributor with a focus on Security, Storage and Network Architecture. Evaluated, acquired, and implemented all cloud products: Applicant tracking system, email scanning and verification, phone system and salesforce.com. Invited to serve on Microsoft iSCSI 1.0 panel to assist in defining requirements and features.

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Assisted in planning and execution of office consolidation from 5 offices to 3 “centers of excellence,” reducing operational costs by 40%, sustaining profits during economic downturn. Led data center consolidation that reduced costs by $75K annually.

Initiated and led telecommunication conversion to Voice Over IP solution eliminating long distance expense of $240k per year. Leveraged ‘printing as a service’ model from IKON / Ricoh reducing costs by $14k per year and stabilizing billing.

Led effort to equip contractors in the field with handheld computers, improving accuracy and speed of market data gathering. Led effort to create a full mobility strategy for internal and external use with proprietary applications as well as over the counter applications such as Active

Sync, Blackberry and Outlook Web Access Mobile. (Continued on page 2)

LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS 2005 – 2006Storage ArchitectRecruited to lead storage team in design of a comprehensive data storage and disaster recovery solution.

Led design and layout of EMC Symmetrix storage units for production and DR, including (SRDF) connection between the storage units. Performed of data documentation for go-live of the DR environment.

Created and implemented cross country disaster recovery solution for production systems

Reduced costs by implementing a small footprint large capacity drive solution for storage products.

Maintained 99.999% uptime for production storage units.

IBM GLOBAL SERVICES | QWEST COMMUNICATIONS 2002 – 2005Systems Integration Specialist, IBM Global Services – Qwest IT Account (2002 – 2005)Designed and implemented multi-state company-wide network attached storage strategy to consolidate Windows and UNIX based file servers to a common platform. Estimated storage requirements recommend purchase for forecasted growth. Researched and evaluated new technologies, presented business cases to management team. Maintained 85tb of network attached storage in 7 states based on EMC Celerra and NS600/700, Network Appliance R150, R250 and Network

Appliance Filer 940 Cluster. Allocated new network attached storage requested by clients and export to Sun, Linux, HPUX and Windows systems. Designed and implemented complex multi vendor SAN environments based on Hitachi, EMC and HP (Compaq) arrays connected with Brocade

and McData (EMC Connectrix) switches. Maintained 195tb of usable storage across 5 states on SANs with HPUX, Linux, Windows, AIX, NUMA-Q, SuperDome, E10/15K and Sun hosts

attached. Lead Information Systems Engineer, Qwest Promoted to a lead position within 9 months of hire. Designed, evaluated, and deployed Network Attached Storage (NAS) to the enterprise base on the EMC Celerra / Clariion equipment. Selected to lead a project team of 14 Qwest / EMC employees in a successful network implementation. Created design and process for

consolidation of Windows file servers at all major data centers. Developed migration plan of servers to NAS platform. Participated in EMC tech refresh creating plans and executing the cutover of Windows servers from Symmetrix to Clariion. Created initial designs for a Hieratical Storage Management (HSM) system.

RAINDANCE COMMUNICATIONS 1999 – 2002Senior Systems Engineer | ManagerLed data storage system design and maintenance, data center and network design. GATES RUBBER COMPANY, Denver, CO 1998 – 1999IT Systems Engineer - Optimized and upgraded Windows| Novell environment across a 14-state WAN. COHERENT TECHNOLOGIES, Lafayette, CO 1997 – 1998Network Administrator

Education | Technical Proficiencies

Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems, DeVry Institute of Technology 1997

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