Steven Sheldon Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Leader of organization responsible for providing core routing/switching network services, security and frameworks to the Cisco enterprise. Organizational responsibilities include technical network architecture and support, development of vital applications in the IP and Network Security spaces, process automation, DevOps hosting for multiple critical network services tools, global network backbone, connected trusted networks and WAN services

Worldwide, Oo

Senior leader of the Solutions Architecture group supporting Deloitte's Advisory line of business. Leader of leaders for the globally-located organization which budgets, designs, implements and provides operational care of revenue-generating SaaS solutions hosted for Deloitte clients. Tactical and strategic ownership of a variety customer-facing hosting efforts across hybrid-cloud Linux, Windows, Azure and AWS platforms comprising $25MM yearly spend, 5,000+ servers, 15,000+ users and over 2.5 petabytes of storage. Currently driving consolidation of operational efforts, DevOps transformation, aggressive automation and 24/7 worldwide footprint to improve implementation and support for Advisory efforts.

Irving, Texas, Us

Leader of organization responsible for IT innovation, business intelligence and application development for Caterpillar's $5 billion Building Construction Products division in Raleigh, NC. Direct report to CIO. Responsible for employee development, organizational strategy, budget and improving leadership competency of direct reports. Personally led application discovery and strategy development to plan application hosting roadmap into cloud and implementation of DevOps processes. Led creation of consolidated executive data analytics portal.Managed data analytics, ETL, .NET application development functions for manufacturing and marketing environments. Platforms include Microsoft SQL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, .NET, Java, ETL between numerous critical corporate and business unit systems. Designed and implemented divisional ITSM and PMO processes

Irving, Texas, Us

Managed globally-located engineering team with responsibility for research and validation of wireless technologies and implementation of hosting infrastructure to support Caterpillar's MineStar software as a service applications. Re-visioned team from ground up in order to meet industry need for autonomous vehicle infrastructure oversight. Personally led customer consulting efforts on networking technology integration; adept at significant, high stakes customer interaction. Managed multi-million dollar IT work streams to design and construct network infrastructure, hosting and datacenter for mining customers.Led development of data analysis platform for network communications and predictive signal quality which was integrated into the MineStar autonomous platform.Worked as a thought leader within the broader telecommunications industry to bring real-life mission critical wireless requirements to companies like Motorola, Cisco, Nokia, Alcatel and carriers like Verizon, Telstra and Sprint. Continually championed the autonomous systems use case and need for robust wireless communication with vendors and government agencies; collaborated on systems design for autonomy support.

Irving, Texas, Us

Director of development and support organization of 40+ tasked with upgrading Caterpillar's engineering application environment to Teamcenter Unified and providing operational support for the engineering portfolio. Responsibility for organizational planning, strategy, budget and employee development. Managed staff responsible for architecture, worldwide deployment and support of Siemens Teamcenter at Caterpillar

Irving, Texas, Us

Led large enterprise team tasked with design, implementation and support for corporate data center, extensive metropolitan area fiber network (MAN) and worldwide local area networks (LAN). Provided leadership of leaders with responsibility for enterprise network operations, design, datacenter planning and project management including facility startup. Managed vendor relationships and responsibility for ~$30MM enterprise network capital and services spend.- Matrix manager for network product at Caterpillar, leading strategic direction for corporate-wide support teams with day-to-day responsibility for site network operations- Strategic Relationship Manager for network-focused technology vendors- Responsibility for management of enterprise-level incidents involving network connectivity; provide leadership of incident coordination and direct response, investigation and corrective actions as needed.- Led project to architect infrastructure for on-truck and on-bulldozer data acquisition and control- Built consensus and executed on core network redesign to enable private cloud services through highly redundant, high bandwidth, geographically separated data centers using Cisco Nexus core down through top-of-rack distribution and virtual switches for VM hosts- Consulted on initiative to re-architect in-field data strategy and warehousing of equipment sensor and maintenance data used for predictive analysis- Led team in building a virtual network control center application to automate circuit and network device testing, automatically test and escalate contacts in the event of a device failure and present outage data in an aesthetic, visual fashion

Irving, Texas, Us

Managed infrastructure and engineering systems organization with responsibility for a $5 billion revenue Caterpillar business unit. Responsible for servers, storage, networks, client computing environment and help desk support for three major facilities and associated datacenters. Ownership of business unit engineering systems portfolio for CAD design, bill of materials and product lifecycle management.- Completed ground-up redesign of business unit hosting strategy, eliminating systems hosted at edge in favor of hybrid-cloud hosting where application performance made this feasible- Consolidated legacy Active Directory domain into a corporate organizational unit, building automation routines to migrate all client computers, user accounts and servers which used Active Directory authentication- Executed on a complete physical-to-virtual VMWare migration, drastically consolidating physical footprint, providing disaster recovery capability and more elasticity for compute resources - Led development of strategy to consolidate business unit PLM systems into corporate cloud- Completed forklift upgrade to modernize Cisco network at all business unit sites and implement layer 3 routing - Implemented IP telephony at all business unit sites, retiring legacy PBX and ending support contracts

Irving, Texas, Us

- Led project to migrate enterprise client workstations from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Microsoft Windows XP- Ownership of core Windows client desktop application environment- Developed automated backup and remote upgrade process using SMS/SCCM- Provided architecture and support for enterprise Active Directory consisting of over 50 domains and over 100,000 user objects- Developed and implemented multi-year project to consolidate worldwide Active Directory domains from business unit based model to geographic model- Developed automated system to allow data owners to remove and add access to shared drives via SQLServer, PERL and VBScript driven self-service website- Created Active Directory forest report dashboard which proactively monitored corporate forest for issues that required resolution (i.e. DNS or global catalog configuration problems, etc.)