Steve Cherry Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, Us

As a Technical Director, I lead with a vision of empowering organizations to thrive in the digital age by leveraging the transformative power of Azure. My approach balances strategic foresight, technical excellence, and stakeholder collaboration to deliver solutions that drive measurable results. I am passionate about guiding teams through change, fostering a culture of innovation, and enabling my clients to stay ahead in a competitive landscape. I often open new clients, work closely with client executive leadership, and work on strategic initiatives. I have built teams of over 30 as a single seed consultant at clients generating revenue over 10mm annually. I oversee delivery running our delivery assurance practice at my clients to ensure industry best quality, security, and performance standards are adhered to. I specialize in Microsoft based technologies. These include Azure, .NET Core, Kubernetes, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Power Apps, and Power Automate. I am proficient in database work involving SQL Server and data movement transformations using Azure Data Factory.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Lead enterprise architect and account executive for Fortune 500 clients implementing cloud-based technologies in agile processes. An experienced consultant with high interpersonal communication and relationship acumen combined with rare technology expertise focused on client strategic initiatives at the executive level. Have successfully led application rationalization projects for modernizing enterprise stacks for clients across legacy to cloud-based technologies. Ability to wear many hats with engineering when needed, across all vertical tiers, leading large teams, while driving product owner, steering committees, and executive check-ins. Systems integration expert between SaaS, iPaaS, hybrid, cloud-native, distributed, on-premise, and legacy APIs. Technologically agnostic leveraging what is best for each client and context. Led numerous enterprise intranet portal projects through adherence to proper information architecture, governance, persona experienced designs, migration approach, migration strategy, and execution along with proper change management for successful adoption. Business development savvy from chalk talks, proposals, and SOW construction.Enterprise delivery assurance lead responsible for overseeing risky projects across multiple accounts, new offices, and newer technologies. Internal recruiting lead for technical placement and company growth through shadowing programs and consistent tech phone screens.

Fairfax, Va, Us

Senior consultant and development team lead for enterprise Marine Corps project. Requires skill sets for all developmental stages including: requirements gathering, client interaction, design, development, deployment and maintenance of dozens of existing and new applications.Training and presentations of prototype and completed applications to the Marine Corps involving high ranking officials.Gathered requirements for, designed, developed, managed and deployed multiple large modules to the USMC with high reviews. Development and design includes all application tiers utilizing agile (Scrum) methodologies with constant client interaction.ASP.NET (1.1, 2.0, 3.5), c#, AJAX, JavaScript, Oracle (9i, 10g), HTML, XSL, XML, Stored Procedures, Packages, Relational Database Design, Scrum, LINQ, jQuery

Fairfax, Virginia, Us

Lead Developer for Department of Defense healthcare application. Worked direclty with military doctors at Walter Reed Hospital to produce e-notes on patients and real time diagnostics.Won best team lead for two consecutive iterations in our agile development process for best component.Ran team that converted application from classic ASP to ASP.NET.Oracle 9i, .NET (c# and VB.NET), javascript, HTML, XML, XSLT, vbscript

Web Developer for a small and dynamic startup videoconferencing company. Worked with the web team that owned front-end, API, and backend development for web applications.Technologies used were Classic ASP, .NET, c#, SQL Server 2000, HTML, javascript, vbscript, XML, XSLT

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