Steve Vail Email & Phone Number

Parker, CO, US

Denver, Colorado, United States

Denver, Colorado, United States

Seasoned technology executive providing visionary leadership, strategic planning, and enterprise architecture advisory services. Collaborate closely with C-suite leaders, senior IT, and top industry practitioners to drive transformative initiatives that align technology strategy with critical business objectives. Leverage expertise in emerging.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Greater Denver Area

• Member of executive team reporting to the CIO. Focused on the integration and transformation of CommonSpirit Health. Responsible for driving effective strategies, digital transformation and business optimization for.
• Lead and enable transformation to a technology delivery culture that is able to scale and adapt to the rapidly evolving healthcare market.
• Drive value capture initiatives and develop actionable plans for synergy realization.
• Define IT operating models that enable business alignment, agility and efficiency.
• Evaluate technologies, infrastructure and process to build towards forward looking digital and innovation capabilities.
• Establish clear and achievable three to five year financial and technology targets to merge Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health.

Greater Denver Area

• Leverage Enterprise Architecture and Web Scale Cloud hosting design experience to liaison between IT services, the office of the CISO, Corporate Compliance and our vendors to drive modern optimized architectures.
• Coordinated multi-national onshore and offshore teams and projects through a blended-resource model.
• Implemented significant and demonstrable improvements in cross functional communication, asset management, data integrity, security processes, and operational workflows.
• Audited and re-negotiated existing vendor relationships and contracts.

• Focused on delivering enterprise scale hybrid cloud technologies, data center consolidation, and process automation. Manage multiple global teams of highly skilled senior systems architects, engineers and business.
• Provide M&A architectural guidance and process integration for assimilation of IT infrastructure and process of more than 150 acquisitions.
• Provide management and optimization of ~$320M IT design budget.
• Transitioned more than 8000 servers to Oracle cloud infrastructure and services enabling rapid provisioning and elastic load management not possible with traditional server architectures.
• Conceptualized, implemented and assessed information security architectures for emerging technologies, current capabilities and desired business outcomes.
• Led teams responsible for establishing standards and best practices for all compute, storage, data protection and risk management for Oracle global IT and development functions.

• Developed enterprise standards for compute, storage, data protection, and automation technologies. Managed multiple high performing system design, network, and risk management teams to deliver high availability.
• Designed and deployed fully automated architectures to provision and refresh ~9000 virtual environments per week.
• Drove the early adoption of high-density virtualization and automation technologies (pre-cloud).
• Met and worked directly with Ian Pratt (inventor of Xen virtualization) to help make his technology a foundation of Oracle grid computing platforms.

Designed, deployed, and supported global delivery systems for the sales/marketing and global education organizations. Lead a global team of 20+ highly skilled system architects, database administrators, network engineers, and business analysts in collaboration with end users to develop fully automated, highly available, highly resilient delivery platforms.

• Planned, organized, and directed engineering and technical management operations. Prepared, evaluated, and implemented methods, processes, and techniques that support system design to improve performance, reliability.
• Defense Support Program (DSP)
• Infrared Missile Surveillance Systems (SBIRS)Advanced knowledge of:
• Satellite C2, space warning and control systems, and space launch processes
• Orbital mechanics
• Data analysis procedures

• Designed and Implemented system capability analysis and continuous feedback process to increase production by 117% and reduce manufacturing defects by more than 41%.
• Promoted to build and lead manufacturing operations in Singapore.
• Developed and Implemented effective global infrastructure, multi-national workflows, and award-winning international teams.Staff Electrical Engineer
• Part of engineering team responsible for designing, building, and deploying new manufacturing tools and methods.

M.B.A, Operations Management, International Business

B.S., Business Administration

Electrical And Electronics Engineering