Steve Mays

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Consultant at Scorpion Computer Services @ Scorpion
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San Rafael, California, United States, United States
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About Steve Mays

I am a long experienced visionary with the ability to bring that vision down to product, marketing and implementation leadership. Having worked for international, government, education, private, public, large and small as well as my own companies that I raised capital for I have a wealth of diverse knowledge on how to dream and drive that dream to reality anytime and anywhere.Specialties: Senior Business Management, Technical Writing, Product Management/Positioning/Development/Marketing, IT Management, Internet System Development, Raising Capital, Supercomputing, Networking, Marketing/Sales positioning/presentation, Systems Architecture, Intellectual Property Development, Business Consulting, Executive, Software Development/Management, QA, Business Development

Steve Mays's Current Company Details
Scorpion

Scorpion

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Consultant at Scorpion Computer Services
Steve Mays Work Experience Details
  • Scorpion
    Consultant
    Scorpion May 2021 - Present
    Los Angeles, California, Us
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  • Scorpion
    Interim Chief Technology Officer - Paycertify
    Scorpion May 2020 - May 2021
    Los Angeles, California, Us
    Interrim CTO
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  • Senior Talent International
    Consultant
    Senior Talent International May 2021 - Present
  • Brainquake
    Co-Founder And Cto
    Brainquake Jun 2014 - Present
    I work with a stellar team to create the future of math learning. Help manage and guide the team, develop technology that wins partners and grants, work with partners to expand distribution and reach.Manage1. I develop and refine the technology plan to match business requirements2. Work to translate business requirements to technical stories3. Assist with data privacy compliance, data hygieneDevelop Technology1. Help design and create Adaptive Engine that's been recognized by the Federal Department of Education2. Design game sharing event engine, technology behind game matching/dashboard, big data platform3. Setup system to allow for goals based achievement measurement/ranking/partner sharing/parent and student communication on what's going well and what needs improvement4. Work with mathematician co-founder to determine game goals that represent learning outcomes5. Assist in all grant writing, business partnership deals, partner API communication and app customizationExpand Distribution1. Help with model/tech/goals logging/SSO for Glasslab Games2. Help with HTML5 strategy, caching/preloading/optimization for BrainPop partnership3. Assist with 3 other, soon to be disclosed partners launching with our products4. Exploration of concepts such as eSports, broadcast gameplay
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  • Origin House
    Vp Of Information Technology
    Origin House Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
    Ottawa, On, Ca
    * Contracting CIO, help provide all IT strategy* Move all users to single Office 365 to improve communications* Build out IT team from almost nothing* Support operations in the US and Canada* Help compliance team with tech to meet METRC compliance* Integrate key software to enable B2B ecommerce, warehousing* Deploy all new networking to provide stable service and site-site VPN
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  • Trizic, Inc.
    Cto
    Trizic, Inc. Jun 2015 - Sep 2018
    Two fold position required a lot of technology and startup/management experience.Technology1. Designed microservices/cloud/container based architecture2. Designed "API in the front, API in the back" philosophy to allow our clients to make their own UX while seamlessly allowing data in and out to our partners3. Created security standards, answered compliance requests, setup PCI DSS and other scans to watch for regression, trained staff on resisting phishing attacks4. Guided team on developing fully automated, failsafe deploy procedures (Terraform, AWS ASG/ELB/EC2/S3/RDS and other services, Ansible, Vault, Consul)5. A WHOLE LOT of code review!Management1. Build the engineering organization2. Assisted with successful raising capital including directly bringing in $1M from former investors in my previous companies (over $7M total)3. Setup code commit standards, directed CI/CD process creation4. Setup compliance/audit/security standards, successful response to large financial institutions
  • Cplane Networks
    Vp Network Architecture
    Cplane Networks Dec 2014 - Nov 2016
    Two-fold position to help raise money and create/deploy a network automation product at international telecom scale.Management1. Help define company direction2. Articulate product features that are desirable to clients3. Help create go to market strategy4. Help develop deck, then meet with VC's and strategics for FUNdraisingTechnology1. Work directly with clients to assess needs, install product2. Help develop solutions for government and large corporations3. Project management for large, multi-national telecom deployments
  • New Context
    Board Member
    New Context Dec 2014 - Jan 2016
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    1. Help bring deals, clients, staff to drive strategic direction for the company2. Help guide management with advice, direction and closing deals3. Meet with existing clients, understand needs and determine solutions that the company could deploy4. Assist with product and services direction
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  • New Context
    General Manager, Cto And Co-Founder
    New Context Sep 2013 - Nov 2014
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    As the first person paid by the company and co-founder, my job was...EVERYTHING!Get Money1. Was co-founder of the organization2. Worked with co-founder to successfully close investment from Digital Garage (www.garage.co.jp) (Over $3M)Get Team1. Hired team of former colleagues to take on first partnership with Guardtime, then develop product and services around that partnershipGet Clients and Partners1. Won first few small clients within 30 days of opening doors2. Flew to Japan and worked with other DG companies to close first enterprise clients (Shell Petroleum East, Veritrans Indonesia)3. Helped close key partnerships with Neo, Chef, Harris and others4. Engaged with parent company to improve systems automation and other cloud based skill in our sister companies Expand and Manage1. Formulated large enterprise strategy, closed deals to support move from smaller client base to larger industrial (Shell, GE, Kaiser, Live Nation/Ticketmaster and others)2. Helped formulate government strategy and worked closely with Harris on their next generation FAA bid and the Singapore Ministry of Manpower's foreign worker visa program3. Worked with co-founder to formulate product strategy, first with Guardtime, then our own product4. Was an individual contributor on every project we had during my time at the company
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  • Message Bus
    Evangelist And Co-Founder
    Message Bus Nov 2010 - May 2013
    My job as co-founder evolved over time, from technical, to raising money, to management, to industry relations.Technical1. Co-developed the first prototype2. Designed Java/JMS/Redis SOA architecture that could auto scale and was fault tolerant, was capable of scaling to 1B emails per day and beyond
3. Wrote software for automatic virtual host creation and service provisioning4. Software development and systems automation in Scala, Ruby, Bash, Python and others
5. Co-designed user side API6. Helped design, code, move company through first 3 product iterationsRaising Money1. Developed initial revenue/investment model2. Worked with sales on competitive feature matrix
3. Helped develop pitch decks4. Successfully helped raise over $20MManagement1. Helped hire the team2. Helped guide company product/service direction3. Assisted with key hires and setup of customer security department4. Prepared patent information, respond to competitive patents, drive IP process5. Was primary author for patent on Message Delivery Systems and Methods (20130086188)Industry Relations1. Developed partnerships with major email providers2. Led industrial relations to ensure that government and major email receivers helped us ensure that we only sent the cleanest email and when issues arose, we'd get first communication instead of negative response. 3. Joined the board of the industry trade group
  • Maawg
    Member Of The Board Of Directors
    Maawg Nov 2011 - Nov 2012
    1. Helped raise the profile of the DMARC email security standard. Participated in many IETF track discussions to guide brainstorming. Helped mail providers implement.2. Assisted in decision making around location for future MAAWGs3. Voted to bring in anti-harassment policies to encourage diversity4. Worked to encourage Senders' SIG members to actively work with receivers instead of attempting to understand and game the rules
  • Edmunds.Com
    Senior Director Application Operations
    Edmunds.Com Feb 2010 - Nov 2010
    Santa Monica, Ca, Us
    I rebuilt this team from 1 member back up to full strength in under 3 months. A bit of strategy, a dash of management and a lot of tech went into this job!Strategy1. Help design a migration from a monolithic Java stack to an SOA w/JMS and Oracle Coherence in memory caching grid architecture.Management1. Revenue safety/stability by keeping all apps/site operational2. First responder on 24x7 alerts to ensure that work gets classified, parceled out, resolved in a timely fashion.3. Rehire 6 positions, build training documentation which allowed fast ramp up time and became a model that other departments used4. Scrum team support for any and all operational system issuesTech1. Assurance proper function of their Java development environments/apps2. Develop first producer/consumer prototypes, load testing, monitoring/JMX based control system for ActiveMQ 5 based system3. Automation/documentation of all operational systems pertaining to key applications4. Develop systems around key drivers for innovation a. SOA b. Queue based communication c. In memory caching grid d. Virtualization e. Move to the cloud
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  • Mfoundry
    Consultant
    Mfoundry 2008 - Jan 2010
    1. Technical documentation2. Assisted with development environment setup3. Moved to virtualization4. Moved to Layer 7 Load Balancing/cookie based routing on their mobile banking product.5. Development of their fully automated installation system6. Key consultant on multi-factor authentication for banking/PCI compliance7. Assisted with Virtual Appliance prototype for their product8. Managed LAN systems/IT
  • X2 Technologies
    Co-Founder And Cto
    X2 Technologies Jan 2001 - Jan 2010
    Us
    As co-founder of what was initially an IT services then later a cloud PC based company, I was involved in everything!Management1. Co-Founder of the company2. Hired teams in SF, Southern Cal, Tokyo, South Korea3. Was primary author patent for System and Method for Providing Computer Services (20120150992)4. Successfully helped raise all investment (over $2M)5. Sold services to and worked with international clients such as the US Federal Government, government of Kyrgyzstan6. Sales/Marketing: Tradeshows, Marketing/Sales materials (RFP response, budgets/timelines, presentations, graphics, direction/production and service positioning, advertising pieces), speaking engagements, PodcastTechnology1. Principal architect/designer of all major client IT solutions2. Developed model for standardized desktop IT delivery that allowed for a monthly fee for IT support3. Primary developer of AirPC thin-client desktop system for consumers in Japanese market; Partnered with KDDI and Sony’s So-Net division (From inception, to team hiring, network selection, hardware and software partners, firmware/board level work to meet Sony standards)4. Involved in all aspects of marketing and sales of our service and product
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  • Telecom/Telematique, Inc.
    Consultant
    Telecom/Telematique, Inc. 2005 - 2005
    I was the US Govt Electronic Governance Expert in Central Asia and got involved in a lot of other projects that supported that goal (no eGov without telecom!)eGov1. Helped shape digital signature equivalence policy vs. parliamentary procedure by meeting with the parliament, president and supporting departments2. Helped develop a national social security like numbering scheme to allow for reliable census, pension payment, citizen ID3. Provided expertise in starting with first principles (Print the PDF!) to allow remote post offices (the only part of the federal government in some towns) to give and get info from citizenryTelecom1. Was primary architect for new STM-3 (microwave) based country backbone with local fiber distribution in Bishkek and WiFi in smaller towns2. Assisted with the establishment of a federal IT ministry, datacenter3. Served as first/interim CIO for the country of Kyrgyzstan a. Led mission to the US Federal government to discuss federal spectrum regulation, telecom regulation, civilian spectrum regulation, b. helped free 2.4GHz from military use to civilian WiFi use4. Provided assistance during discussion of sale of national telecom to a Greek telecom5. Provided assistance during satellite uplink and land-based connection to the Trans-Asia-Europe fiber backbone via Kazakh telecomOther Projects1. Provided senior technology talent for projects in the Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR countries, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, etc)2. Provided assistance with bids/projects related to Afghanistan and other countries (including review with UNDP)3. Provided alternative design for Afghan telecom based on work in Kyrgyzstan4. Helped develop floorplan, curriculum, budget, donor lists for the Tashkent University's Women's IT Training facility in Uzbekistan. Taught the first class on packet switched vs. circuit switched networking and the Internet!
  • Publicis/Dialog (Formerly Novo/Semaphore Partners)
    Director Of Infrastructure Services
    Publicis/Dialog (Formerly Novo/Semaphore Partners) 2001 - 2002
    1. Was a key member of the West Coast Managers group2. Managed the QA, Business Consulting, IT Services (Systems Integration practice)revenue generating groups3. During the .com implosion, we were over 100% to plan4. Moved QA from being unloved in-house, to loved in house and for profit to clients5. Lead a team of 3 that split Palm.com off of 3Com in 3 weeks (Interwoven Teamsite, ATG Dynamo, WebLogic site).6. Lead key projects with LexisNexis, McCain Foods, McKesson corporation7. Provided testing/emailing/java-C rig code for Behr Paints kiosks (still seen in Home Depot stores 9+ years later!)
  • Novo Giant Step
    Director Of Infrastructure Services
    Novo Giant Step 2001 - 2002
    See above (Novo, Giant Step, Semaphore Partners are one company buying another buying another)
  • Novo
    Director
    Novo 2000 - 2002
    Brookfield, Wi, Us
    See above (Novo, Giant Step, Semaphore Partners are one company buying another buying another)
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  • Gloss.Com
    Co-Founder
    Gloss.Com 1998 - 2000
    1. Assisted with successful raise of over $20M in investment2. Architect of all technical systems, deployed site from start to finish in under 4 months3. Purchased all hardware, setup all systems4. Drove key understanding of what was possible with web systems given the technology of the day5. Worked to improve payment systems with 2 well known web-ACH providers6. Assisted with Marketing, Operations, Warehouse integration, SKU/Bundle/Product concepts, writing content for the site, pretty much everything7. Prepared the company and assisted during the acquisition by Estee Lauder and Chanel.
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  • Cendant Software
    Manager Of Online Operations
    Cendant Software 1997 - 1998
    Brooklyn, New York, Us
    1. Interrim CEO of Sierra Online2. Lead the Cendant Software Online Services (CSOS)3. Assisted with development of wholly internet based and internet enabled products (code, security, server vs. client side data, bitrate capabilities, occlusion, ecommerce/upsell opportunities; SWAT 2 and other properties)4. Rescued the failing NASCAR Racing Online Series and repaired our relationships with key development partners and the NASCAR organization.5. Consolidated teams and datacenters, reduced overhead expense by $10MM a year6. Helped architect the ecommerce system and integration into key warehouse/fulfillment/inventory, finance, customer/order service platforms.7. Assisted with sale to Vivendi
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  • Broderbund
    Manager Of Online Operations
    Broderbund 1996 - 1998
    1. Lead the Internet and Intranet (knowledge management) teams2. Assisted with development of wholly internet based and internet enabled products (code, security, server vs. client side data, bitrate capabilities, occlusion, ecommerce/upsell opportunities; Warlords III, Take No Prisoners, Baja 1000, PrintShop and LiveMail and other properties)3. Designed datacenter, systems, networking4. Helped architect the ecommerce system and integration into key warehouse/fulfillment/inventory, finance, customer/order service platforms.
  • Industrial Light And Magic
    Director Of It
    Industrial Light And Magic 1996 - 1997
    1. Provided key direction for production systems, storage, networking, render farm2. Key innovator on projects such as the first system to ever play film resolution display from hard drives.3. Presented to the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences for technical achievement on the ILM Video Server (the first multi-30FPS NTSC playback system).4. Established the Inter-Lucas Company Council to meet George Lucas' request for the Lucas Companies to TIGHTLY collaborate on the Prequel films.5. Helped establish the 5 year plan to move Skywalker sound from 1" Magnetic Tape drive systems to a completely digital audio system with searchable archive6. Worked with the companies to establish common models/polygons/audio and other assets to speed post of films/TV/commercials as well as video games.7. Developed key colorspace conversion tools8. Helped develop IP over HiPPI to meet our voracious need for bandwidth/storage.9. Key advisor to senior staff (head of production, cg, GM) on technical issues.10. Managed budgets, timeframes, technical issues, hiring team, etc11. Established the helpdesk function12. Assisted with alternative platform setup/development (such as the Rebel Mac unit which did most of the FX on Star Trek 8 on Macintoshes)
  • Broderbund Software Inc.
    Manager Of Online Operations
    Broderbund Software Inc. 1995 - 1997
    Built out the Internet, eCommerce and Online Gaming systems and products.
  • Bozell / Salvati Montgomery Sakoda
    Manager Of It
    Bozell / Salvati Montgomery Sakoda 1993 - 1996
    Omaha, Nebraska, Us
    1. Became interrim CIO2. Developed complete company WAN where any employee could go to any office, sit down and work (with 3,000+ employees and offices across the US this was a key benefit!)3. Assisted with creation and delivery of digital presentations and background knowledge on key potential customers in technical industries.4. Consolidated all mail systems a single SMTP presence5. Managed budgets, timeframes, technical issues, hiring team, etc6. Established the helpdesk function
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  • Bozell / True North Advertising
    Director Of Technology
    Bozell / True North Advertising 1992 - 1994
    Managed IT for a nationwide, $400MM profit center and helped develop the concept which became ModemMedia.
  • Riverside
    Manager Of It
    Riverside 1990 - 1993
    1. Provided LAN/WAN/Systems consulting2. Helped develop systems administration curriculum3. Designed the LAN/Data Center for the (then) to be build College of Engineering building4. Helped establish the Graphics/Animation department by working with Marvel Entertainment Group/SGI/Alias to design systems/software/curriculum that allowed UCR to produce animated TV shows for Marvel.5. Helped established the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (was often called the T in CERT). Designed and deployed key LAN/WAN/Systems/Data Acquisition/Embedded Systems Design and other systems6. Moved the Office of the UC President/Construction to provide data wiring as part of all UC construction budget (not the departmental) from the College of Engineering building forward.7. Established and lead the security incident response team8. Provided consulting to almost every college on campus (AI lab, Psych Lab, Administration, Physics, CS, Engineering, Bio Sciences to name a few)

Steve Mays Education Details

  • University Of Phoenix
    University Of Phoenix
    Business Administrator
  • University Of Phoenix
    University Of Phoenix
    Business Management
  • University Of California, Riverside
    University Of California, Riverside
    Computer Science
  • University Of California, Riverside
    University Of California, Riverside
    Computer Science

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