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Steve joined RampRate after many successful years working with the IT outsourcing consultant as a partner. As Practice Director, Steve helps clients develop a reliable content-delivery solution that suits the customer's specific priorities and needs. Constant advances in Web and media technology continually complicate CDN deployment. Steve finds the right solution for customers, at the right price, with the right options. On the vendor side, Steve helps service providers configure and fine-tune their services to meet the shifting needs of a marketplace that is hungrily seeking the newest, highest quality media offerings and web sites.
Steve has worked on large-scale content networking, storage and delivery for more than 13 years. At Speedera Networks, he built, managed and sold that company's streaming CDN service. Speedera's client list included Intel, HP, Sony, Microsoft, Trend Micro, the U.S. Department of Justice, CBS, Home Depot, Univision, Amazon.com, NASA, USA Today, and Fox" "American Idol." Some of those clients came to Speedera through its partnership with RampRate.
After the successful launch of Speedera's streaming service, Steve was named Vice President of Operations, overseeing Speedera's entire network, comprising 80 datacenters with thousands of servers, purchasing, SLAs and customer-service operations. Speedera's CDN offered web caching, whole-site delivery, global load balancing, software downloads, global DNS service and streaming.
Speedera was purchased by Akamai Technologies Inc. in 2005.
Before Speedera, Steve built one of the world's first internationally distributed streaming CDNs at TEN-TV, a business broadcaster acquired by LoudEye Corp.
At TEN-TV, Steve authored a patent describing a load-balanced global CDN with satellite-fed encoding systems. TEN-TV's customers included IBM, Valueline, Compaq, Novell and Lotus.
Steve first began working on streaming technology at VDOnet, a key inventor of early variable-bitrate streaming codecs and servers. VDOnet's technology was used in Microsoft's initial streaming players.
Steve's content-technology experience began while working at Sonic Solutions, a Lucasfilm spinoff and Emmy award winner for its pioneering work in audio technology. While at Sonic, he was a sales and QA engineer for the first generation of high-bandwidth distributed audio- and video-editing systems.
Steve has an MBA from Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley dual campus program. He has Bachelor's of Arts in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he also completed the Electronic Sound Engineering program. Steve also studied Asian Economics at Joochi University in Tokyo. | 