Steven Christopher Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

As Principal Owner, my expertise lies in elevating C-level executives’ strategies across multiple industries, with a deep specialization in the financial services sector. I leverage strategic technology transformations to enhance business outcomes, applying a broad industry perspective to deliver innovative solutions tailored to each sector’s unique challenges and opportunities. My approach ensures impactful results, fostering sustainable growth and competitive advantage in the dynamic global market.

Irving, Tx, Us

Elemental Methods is a small team of Information Technology and Business Process experts dedicated to providing innovative solutions for clients. We share of common vision in using established I/T and Business Process methodologies to apply technology in new ways to build business value. The Elemental Methods team has over sixty years of I/T and Business Process expertise. Our consultants have provided solutions in multiple industries, including: Travel & Transportation, Distribution, Retail, Consumer Products, Manufacturing, and Construction.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Chief Business Information Officer accountable for delivery of Comerica Technology supporting our customer journeys for our businesses: Commercial Bank, Credit and Lending, Retail and Wealth, and Corporate Functions.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Head of Consumer Channel Technology Delivery for Branches, Retail ATMs, Contact Centers, Real Time Communications, and Technology Procurement.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Enterprise Production, Data Centers, and Global Technology Operations, IT Service Transition, Enterprise Architecture, Managed File Transmissions, Real Time Communications, and Operational Risk and Governance.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for Enterprise Production Operations which includes Production Operations (computer ops, mainframe ops, Network ops, and voice ops), Print and Output Operations, Data Distribution (managed file transmission), Instrumentation and Automation, and Critical Facilities.

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for Wells Fargo's Core and Regional data center facilities providing a governing focal point for all site activities, ensuring site integrity and systems availability through the enforcement of corporate security and governance policies, information processing facility specifications, information technology standards, effective development and execution of processes and disciplines.

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for looking ahead 2-5 years, on behalf of our business partners and customers, to develop solutions for new technologies that meet business needs. The geographically dispersed teams worked with architecture, engineering, procurement, and many other infrastructure groups to ensure that what is built for the Wells Fargo Network meets Wells Fargo's current and future networking needs. Lead the Product Development Design/Architecture teams to create rolling long term targets with shorter term growth plans for the Wells Fargo production network. Managed the network Product lifecycle to anticipate network-impacting requirements with product and service owners, ensuring that the Wells Fargo network anticipates the demands of our current and future services. Ensure that standards and designs are reviewed and sufficiently well-documented for future generations of engineers to use and admire.Managed Compliance and Risk Management for the Network organization charged with ensuring the network is used and operated in a compliant fashion with all internal and external governing bodies.Lead the Project Management Office (PMO) to ensure top tier projects are executed on time and on budget.

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for leading multiple teams that provide Global Network and Security Engineering and Support for the Wells Fargo Network Services & Operations Department. Provides thought and People Leadership to the Teams comprised of 121Employee and Contractor Engineers, Project Managers, Technical Writers, and Technology Managers with a budget of $8.7 Million.Network Manager responsible for providing Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) solutions to all Wells Fargo locations and Lines of Business.Responsible for driving multi-million dollar network projects to successful completion, delivering high availability, cost reductions, and over-all simplification of the network resulting in cost transparency to the company and its shareholders.Responsible for creating and implementing Network Release Management policy and practices.Responsible for Software and Hardware Standardization across various Network Routers, Switches, and Firewalls at Wells Fargo.Redesigned and implemented new organizational model for Engineering Services that helped reduce over-all costs, increase over-all availability, comply to regulatory requirements, meet security requirements and best practices, and improve the "Customer Experience" in delivering solutions that are, "Faster, Better and Cheaper".

San Francisco, California, Us

Technology BCP & HA Office, Wells Fargo - Managed the teams responsible for ensuring efficient recovery efforts are in place for all Wells Fargo Mainframe, Client/Server, and Network technologies. These activities include developing and implementing technology business continuity planning strategies and methodologies. Provide production support and coordination for use of the High Availability (HA) Mainframe environment. Responsible for maintenance, testing, and execution of the Backup Deposit Facility, the HA environment for the primary deposit system. Responsible for maintenance, testing, and execution of the backup mainframe environment in the technology recovery center to ensure restoration meets expectations of recovery within 24 hours. Business proponent responsible for execution of an $80 million technology recovery strategy.Absorbed a 200% increase in production use of the High Availability Environment without additional staff through process modifications.Defined the tier strategy for all Open System applications to ensure all applications are built standard architecture and engineering with right level of availability and BCP. Created new team designed to ensure disaster recovery systems and plans are viable for all WF core data centers.Reduced HA Cut-over time from 45 minutes to 7 minutes for all critical delivery and reduced resource requirements for cutover from 12 people to 3 people.Operational responsibility for the disaster recovery data center.

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for managing small to medium sized base funded projects that support the objectives of Enterprise Hosting Services. Managed multiple strategic initiatives of "Walk the Talk", "Winning Quality", and the "Weekend Outage Program". Responsible for researching and identifying solutions to technology related issues across multiple platforms and lines of business.Brought "Winning Quality" initiatives to current getting the program an A on the executives' scorecards.Created the Weekend Outage Program to identify single points and architectural flaws that are magnified during the normal weekend maintenance. Findings were reported weekly to executive management.Successfully managed project for applications leveraging parallel sysplex that addressed single points of failure in Wholesale CEO, DB2 DVIPA, and CICS.

Executive Mba

Executive Mba

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General