Steven Bohne Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Assisting clients of the firm with SoftPro software installation and support. More to follow after my start date on June 24th!

Greater Chicago Area

IT Director/vCIO for SMBs in the Greater Chicagoland area.Engage in client discussions to provide modern solutions. Implement all solutions with hands-on approach. Generate $10,000s of thousands of dollars in profit for company year over year.

Mettawa, IL

• Leading a team of executive IT support personnel. Working closely with CISO on security enhancements. Partnering with consultants for infrastructure, application and user support. Helping company define best practices.
• Within first 6 months, saved company $150,000 annually in mobile device contract negotiations and recovery of redundant mobile assets.
• Coordinated efforts with Chief Marketing Officer, CISO and third party mobile app developer to roll out a suite of sales apps on company iPads to US-based sales team. Potential revenue generation $100,000 - $1,000,000+.
• Designed company policy for the recovery of IT assets from former employees, with a 98% success rate in the return of those assets from nearly a 0% rate of return. Over $100,000 in IT assets recovered in first 6.
• Developed BYOD and expense policies for employee devices around tighter security and cost savings for the company. Partnered with T&E and CFO/finance to implement and enforce policies.

Greater Chicago Area

Sticking with my roots of supplying superior customer service and business analysis to assist clients with various IT projects. Worked on a SEC compliance project for a financial institution in Chicago. Evaluating, implementing and documenting best practices for infrastructure compliance. Performed various network upgrades for clients.

Greater Chicago Area

• Saved company over $400,000 annually in Azure and O365 cloud costs via effective management of Azure tenant and O365 portal, as well as elimination of several outside IT MSP vendors.
• Served as chief security officer for internal and client facing security initiatives and designs.
• Managed entire infrastructure for 9 global locations.
• Defined cost pass-through strategy with company owner, effectively changing the way we charge our customers and increase our margins.
• Defined internal IT goals, with defined deliverables for senior management and 450 customers.
• Completed technology merger with recent acquisition, saving $250,000 in costs.

Vernon Hills, IL

• Served as IT Consultant for customers of the firm, generating an average yearly revenue of $20,000.
• Created IT spending budget. Managed $500,000 in IT assets with an average annual budget of $250,000 for hardware and software procurement.
• Deployed, supported and maintained entire IT infrastructure from firewalls and network switches to company servers and SAN with 99.9% uptime.
• Managed daily duties of IT Support Department. Evaluated performance of staff.
• Designed and built network and SAN environment for new office move. Negotiated and managed all vendor contracts for ISP, hosted phones system, disaster recovery, alarms, door entry/security, and cabling. Utilized cloud.
• Offloaded several systems to the cloud and standardized office personnel on O365 platform

Chicago, IL

IT Project Management duties from inception to implementation for all new site deployment (over 20 new sites during my tenure at the company). Determined IT needs, gathered requirements, negotiated vendor contracts, managed IT budget, set-up and installed all site hardware, ensured vendor software reliability and functionality, performed ongoing.

Greater Chicago Area

Ran day-to-day operations of privately owned computer consulting company. Clients ranged from in-home users to SMB. Designed and supported all LAN and WAN functions for the client company. Provided 24/7/365 assistance when needed.

Greater Chicago Area

Bid jobs, sold product (doors and windows) and installed in residental and business environments.

Elk Grove Village, IL

PM for project roll-out of a Baan ERP finance, distribution, and manufacturing package to replace a legacy system in seven locations before Y2K. Managed all Baan customizations, working with internal customers and support staff to meet the needs of the users and requirements of the company.Manager of the global WAN and LAN for a 20 location bakery supply.

Northbrook, IL

Designed, wrote, and tested software for clients of a multi-million dollar magazine fulfillment company. Maintained a server farm of Digital Equipment MicroVAX mini-computers.

Lombard, IL

Wrote and tested programs for clients of an authorized Digital Equipment solutions provider. Created and coded software that built the base for the company’s MRP, routing, and bill of materials system.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science, 3.2

Activities and Societies: Golden Key National Honor Society, Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society, Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computing.

Graduate With Honors, General Studies, 4.676

Activities and Societies: District Jazz band bassist all 4 years