Steven V. Bagley
Steven has a strong foundation in enterprise-wide
technologies. With significant experience in large
scale implementations, high availability designs,
and real-time recoveries, he is often leading cutting
edge assignments and critical initiatives. While
at Accelerated Consultants, he architected and implemented
an end-to-end continuity design for one of Chicago's
most noted equity firms; the design's architecture
spans Active Directory, Exchange, SQL, VPN, Citrix,
Virtualization and SAN Replication Technologies.
He also developed a comprehensive Citrix solution
for one of Chicago's most prestigious law firms;
the solution uses a single port, SSL, provides near
universal access, is custom branded, and was both
crafted and implemented under a three day deadline.
Prior to starting AC, Steven became
a noted high availability expert by building Exchange
and SQL Clusters for state governments in North
Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana that have experienced
no downtime. With a wide range of expertise, particularly
with Active Directory, network consolidations
and business continuity, Steven led real-time
disaster recovery operations for the headquarters
of New York's largest real estate firm. He also
designed the Exchange and Active Directory environment
for the world's biggest gaming manufacturer, located
in Reno, Nevada.
Steven graduated Cum Laude at
North Carolina State University where he majored
in Biochemistry and Chemistry. His is a Microsoft
Certified Systems Engineer, a Microsoft Certified
Database Administrator, a Cisco Certified Network
Associate, and a C.I.W. Security Professional.
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Contributors
Danny Lee
Danny Lee is a talented business consultant who
specializes in the implementation of enterprise
scale financial systems, in particular, SAP. He
has an in-depth knowledge of business practices,
supply chain dynamics, treasury management, and
analysis. He has deployed SAP to institutions
in the United States, Canada, Asia and South America
and can quickly ferret out incorrect modeling
assumptions.
In addition to SAP implementations,
Danny is often engaged to draft strategic plans
for new and expanding businesses. Prior to specializing
in SAP he successfully created a five site, multi-state
technology company without relying on a large
sum of investment capital. He is currently implementing
SAP for an international firm headquartered in
Hong Kong, China.
Danny is an M.B.A. graduate from Duke University.
He has over fifteen years of experience with financial
systems, entrepreneurship, and strategic planning.
Danny is a veteran of the United States Air Force
and is fluent in both the Chinese and English
language. Danny received his undergraduate degree
from North Carolina State University.
Brian J. Olive
Brian is a proven solutions architect specializing
in the Microsoft .Net Framework. He has a deep
understanding of ASP.Net, ADO.Net, and the Windows
workflow, presentation, and communication foundations.
His programatic skills, currently C#, CLI, and
VB.Net, stretch back to assembly and the days
of DOS networking where he developed collaboration
systems for the Department of Defense, Glaxo,
and the Research Triangle Institute.
Brian's leadership skills also
date back to the early part of his career. In
1989, at the age of 21, he created a software
development company that grew to thirty full time
employees. Since that time he has found himself
in leadership roles wherever he goes. Currently
he is leading a multi-national team in the development
of programmatic tools to facilitate .Net programming
and acceptance.
Brian is an honors graduate from
North Carolina State University where he majored
in Computer Science.
Shaun Smoot
Shaun Smoot is a Senior Systems Engineer with
over nine years of experience in providing enterprise
solutions in retail, medical and e-commerce industries.
He has an in-depth knowledge of software deployment
and migration, systems process automation, capacity
planning, 24/7 support and enterprise level security.
He's a process-oriented individual that can assist
with the design and maintenance of the enterprise
to accomplish the long-term business strategies
and technology goals.
Prior to starting his own company
(Totus Company), Shaun did projects with many
of the top Fortune 500 companies to include Motorola,
IBM, Time Warner, Sage Software and Cox Communications.
He has also provided a wide range of services
to high-level government agencies such as the
U.S. Marine Corp and U.S Department of State.
Shaun specializes in Unix/Linux
systems and applications. Over the past 2 years,
he has deployed more than 100+ servers, utilizing
core technologies to include Nagios, IBM WebSphere,
JBoss, Tomcat, MySql and Oracle RAC.