Craig Yerger has 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, has participated in 2 startup companies, spent 13 years working for IBM, and has certifications from IBM, Sun, Novell, Microsoft, Red Hat and others. During his tenure at IBM, Craig performed in a variety of roles to include business and technical consulting, led full life-cycle development projects, technical sales, technical project leadership, and was an integral part of many IBM Fortune 100 customer portals and web content management implementations. Craig is a results driven, deeply technical IT professional specializing in integration, security, application performance tuning, problem resolution, and solutions architecture for the IBM WebSphere and HCL Software solutions.Craig gained his foundational leadership skills in the US Army serving as an Airborne Ranger in the 3rd Ranger Battalion with 2 combat deployments. He continued his education at the University of Tampa where he earned a Bachelors of Science in Computer Information Systems. Craig has the experience and expertise to extract and understand complex business requirements, and successfully guide customers and partners in order to maximize the return on investment in complex technology solutions. After founding Asponte Technology in 2008, Craig has had the opportunity to run successful projects for Disney, Cigna, Staples, Major League Baseball, Standard Life, Honda, Prudential, and many more.