Steve is an accomplished software engineering executive, designing and implementing impactful enterprise applications and development teams which provide a competitive advantage for his clients.While leading software development organizations ranging from 4 to 600+ engineers, he has successfully applied his extensive knowledge of advanced software engineering, computer architecture, cyber security, mobile technologies, and enterprise applications to a variety of clients including finance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, commerce, law enforcement, intelligence, military, judicial, & treasury applications.Today, Steve is leading the instantiation of software factories for a number of clients. These factories apply state-of-the-art, secured engineering practices (agile, cloud, mobile computing, IoT, DevOps, Edge AI/MLOps) to produce advanced capabilities.Steve’s own interest in agile software development stems from his years of experience in the commercial software market. While working in industry for companies including Oracle Corporation, Steve applied agile methodologies to the design of financial applications and industrial control systems, using advanced AI techniques and distributed processing capabilities that were the precursor to today’s Industrial IoT devices.Recognizing the need to better manage all of these distributed computing devices, Steve co-founded a company to deliver distributed systems management into the commercial marketplace. During that time, Steve patented a technique for implementing software agents on the early IoT devices for the purposes of securing them and managing them remotely.Over the course of his career, Steve has published approximately 1,000 articles, reports, and white papers on topics including application development, advanced database applications, enterprise business applications (ERP), and cyber security (including the cover article for Information Security magazine in 1999 – 11/98). In recognition for his expertise in enterprise technologies, Steve was asked to serve as the lead judge for 3 consecutive years at the Best Practices in Enterprise Management Awards, an event covered by FORTUNE Magazine. In addition, Steve is the co-inventor of a patent regarding “Event management systems for distributed computing environments”. And Steve has served as an expert witness for multiple technology-related intellectual property lawsuits, at the U.S. state and federal level. He has also been a member of the board of directors for several companies including: the Hurwitz Group; enswers, Inc.; and Realocity, Inc.