Steve Whyte Email & Phone Number

Auburn, Alabama, United States

We’re business operations experts specializing in helping early stage companies and other small businesses create sustainable businesses. We focus on implementing Salesforce as a platform to run businesses so companies can focus on growing their business not managing technology or worrying about operations (see http://www.fastslowmotion.com/salesforce/). We’re passionate about building businesses that scale and achieve the company’s goals by designing a solid foundation of people, processes, and automation.

Auburn, Alabama Area

Provide consulting services to companies of all sizes in the areas of system integration, help desk support, ERP implementation, technology management, process reimplementation, project management, system architecture, migration to virtual environments, network / server / desktop / phone / surveillance implementation and administration, data analytics, and software development (web applications, embedded systems and mobile applications). Resolved complex system integration issues, increased system availability, and reduced support costs. Communicated needs and solutions to senior management of corporations of all sizes.Accomplished implementation and support of manufacturing ERP systems (Infor Visual Manufacturing) in 50+ companies including administration of server and SAN environments.Reduced front office staff by 50% while increasing sales by 25% at one client through automation of billing and support.Exceeded expectations by becoming one of the top technical support consultants for Visual Manufacturing in under 1 year and managing a client base of over 100 manufacturing companies.Delivered a 60 camera surveillance system at 60K under budget while simultaneously implementing server virtualization and network storage saving the organization over 100K in future infrastructure expenses.Developed a Xamarin Forms based mobile applications for a new social networking company.

Founded a non-profit organization to help meet the needs of America's hurting children. Theorganization supported, developed, trained and promoted foster and adoptive families in addition toproviding temporary or permanent homes to children in need.Delivered support for 50+ children over a 7 year period.Provided christmas presents for over 50 foster / adoptive families every year.Advocated for the community to get more involved in solving the foster care crisis in America be speaking at over 10 events per year.

Spearheaded a newly formed team of Senior Application Architects and Engineers that were responsible for defining and communicating the systems and services to standardize the development processes, technologies, architectures and IT Support (ITIL) for the 8th largest US Financial Institution. Additionally the team provided system engineering services for the design, analysis andtroubleshooting of all distributed systems including servers (Windows and Unix), networks, SANs, firewalls, databases and applications.Increased application availability 20% by spearheading deployment of virtualization technologies into the enterprise.Completed 10+ projects including Check 21 Remote Deposit capture on time and under budget.Defined 20+ development standards and process automation to the enterprise.Accomplished a complete reengineering of the intranet services into Websphere Portal for all 25,000employees with no downtime.Increased loan volume by 20%, decreased loan decision times by 25% and closing closing timelines down to a single day in some instances when reducing backend employee staff by 20%% through re-architecting the integration of all lending systems and services.Optimized the ITIL processes and procedures for enterprise change management through reducing time and resources by 20%.

Architect and technical lead of 10 developers and analysts for the USAF Budget Management System responsible for system engineering, system integration, software engineering, database development and administration and server administration.Accomplished a complete rewrite of a 2 year development program into web based technologies in 6 months.Reduced projected deployment and maintenance costs by 50%.

Project manager, software team lead and pre-sales consultant for a business intranet toolkit.Achieved phase 1 development with a fully geographically distributed development team.

Provided tier 3 engineering and administration for 85 HPUX servers worldwide as part of DISA's open systems support organization.Increased support capacity by 15% through the automation of technical service and software deployment.

Managed Laser RADAR seeker hardware and algorithm development for the next generation of autonomous weapons. This included developing and supported a secure test and evaluation environment of over 1 Million Laser RADAR images.Achieved a 30% reduction in airborne data collection test cycle timelines through coordination oftest ranges and assets.Reduced the evaluation timeline of new algorithms by 200%.

Arnold Engineering Development Center

Developed the vision for the integration of existing business processes for test article design, data acquisition, analysis and evaluation software, test cell hardware and high performance computing resources into an integrated test and evaluation environment. This included Defining system requirements for an integrated system architecture for the entire Development Center.Completed the vision development process in 50% of estimated time.Achieved buy in of all 5 departments through integrated requirements gathering and review through guided activities and briefings.

As an Air Force officer assigned to Wright Laboratory Armament Directorate I was responsible for procuring and managing autonomous target recognition development programs including defining requirements and security classification guides for the new technologies.Managed Laboratory programs valued in excess of $50 million.

Master Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Aeronautics, Computational Fluid Dynamics And Wind Tunnel Testing.

Bsae, Aeronautical Engineering

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