Greg Steele Email & Phone Number

United States

Oakland, California, Us

Program Manage the National Security Systems in the area of Access Control, Video, and Intrusion Systems. Focusing engagement on technology and the standards for facilities across the nation.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Technical product and risk management leadership professional with demonstrated proven results in the e-commerce and financial services industries adding value to the Global Information Security organization. Expert at spearheading end-to-end risk mitigation and payment solutions, leading relationships, process improvements, and quality-driven change. Operates with continuous improvement principles, mitigating risk and maximizing opportunities for growth and quality.

Foster City, California, Us

Managed technical team of 25 Database Administrators (MS SQL & Oracle) and Middleware Engineers in 7 locations (including India and Singapore) responsible for designing, building, and maintaining DB systems and Middleware technology for Highly Available On-line Payment environments. Managed annual budget of 10MM.• Migrated all databases and middleware for Cybersource, an Online CreditCard payment Processor from a third party hosted datacenters to the on-site Visa datacenter, with no transaction loss for this $50 million project.• Designed, architected, implemented, and maintained 50 TB SQL server OLTP real time Credit Card Transaction process database with 99.999% uptime SLA. • Decreased downtime of Cybersource transaction processing platform from 60 minutes to almost zero by partnering with Agile development teams to implement data replication changes and application key management changes to a legacy application.• Followed PMP Project Management methodologies framework for all major work efforts. .Resulting in better on time and transparent project delivery between heavily load work teams in multiple departments. • Achieved compliant audit results thru adhering to industry database platform specific security standards procedures to handle ever changing internal organizational structure and roles. Successfully passed four audits annually.by managing the scope and identifying compensating controls.

Covina, California, Us

Solely responsible for company database systems providing global real time on line professional research and question answering service.• Designed and implemented a highly availability redundant server environment with clustering and log shipping to a secondary BRP system utilized as an active Data Warehouse.

Foster City, California, Us

Managed organization of ten plus Database Administrators responsible for meeting DB technology needs of Visa’s global enterprise Database systems. Managed centralized enterprise Data Base Administration and standards for security, DB system design, DB implementation, and production operations. • Implemented and supported over 600 major and minor MS SQL Server databases systems including OLTP and Data Warehousing running business application such as Visa’s external online portal (B2B), helpdesk system (Remedy), Visa Mobile, and Visa Pre Paid card systems. • Enhanced efficiency and streamlined processes for insuring DB security standard compliance, software licensing inventory and system accountability by redefining and maintained a database inventory repository. • Yielded better accountabilities by providing database support to business units by a single point of contact leading to quicker and more accurate solutions and increased customer satisfaction. • Improved consistency for common DB processes and procedures by using standard enterprise corporate tools including Change Management, Source Control, and Security Compliance into everyday practice on all managed DB systems. Resulting in enhanced system reliability and decreased time to delivery and management of systems.• Decreased new database server installations from 30 a year to less than 10, by implementing enterprise DB provisioning policy and developed business solutions to consolidate like systems, saving $2 million a year. • Authored Visa initial corporate enterprise Technical Security Requirements policy (TSR) for MS SQL Server and Best Practice Implementation Standards for the MS SQL platform.• Architected and sized over 50 DB projects per year to support double digit business growth.

Us

Responsible for comprehensive Accounting & Finance departmental IT management. The scope of areas: ERP system, hardware, software, database management systems, networking, printing, backup systems, including Unix, windows, desktops and servers environments.