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As an entrepreneur with extensive software development success, Steve Drill has more than 20 years of IT experience including 15 years in commercial software product development. Mr. Drill was president and chief operating officer of Essential Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of environmental and emergency management applications, where he managed all operations, except finance, for the $15 million company. Prior to Essential, Mr. Drill spent 12 years with Sterling Software, Inc. and with Systems Center, Inc./VM Software, Inc., which was acquired by Sterling in 1993. Originally a systems programmer and software developer, Mr. Drill rose within Sterling to hold the positions of chief technology officer of the VM Software Division and of the Systems Management Group. Mr. Drill spent seven years at Systems Center, Inc. in a wide range of roles including product manager, development manager, systems architect and senior software engineer. He was responsible for the development and management of a complete suite of systems management software for IBM’s VM operating system. | 