IT Executive & Entrepreneur
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- VP, Commercial Sales at Jeskell, Inc.
- Past
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- VP, Professional Services at Jeskell, Inc.
- Dir., IT Operations at PDL BioPharma, Inc.
- VP, Operations & Business Development at Pocket Real Estate
- President/Owner at RCS Corp.
- President/Owner at RCS Training Center, Inc.
- Business Development Manager & Systems Engineer at Cheyenne Software, Inc.
- Systems, Operations & Storage Analyst at Chevron Information Technology Company
- Computer Operations at IBM Research & ROLM
- Education
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- Holy Names College
- Ohlone College
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Steve Rogers’s Summary
A technology and business leader with executive and hands-on experience in operating and developing small to large IT enterprises. I have a strong and innovative record of success in creating robust IT architectures and infrastructures. With a proven ability to integrate the benefits of IT to solve business issues while managing costs and risks. Also provides strategic direction to senior management on technology.
Dynamic management career where I developed strong leadership, problem solving, planning, team-building, and project management skills. Able to recruit, develop, motivate, and retain a diverse staff, structuring teams that deliver results and savings. I have been responsible for P&L with multi-million dollar budgets. I have a long-term record of success in entrepreneurial ventures. I believe I have a natural ability to communicate and sell.
Steve Rogers’s Specialties:
IT Infrastructure and Operations, IT Consulting, Storage, Servers, Software Development, and Mergers & Acquisitions
Steve Rogers’s Experience
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VP, Commercial Sales
Jeskell, Inc.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Networking industry)
January 2008 — Present (8 months)
Jeskell is the #1 IBM government VAR in the US. Jeskell, Inc. was acquired by FusionStorm, Inc. in October 2006. As part of the acqusition, we have also become one of the top Cisco Gold Certified Partners in the West. We have a rich professional services offering in the areas of Systems & Storage, Network, Communications & Security, Managed Services, Oracle database expertise, as well as many other vendor solutions that add value to our existing IBM and Cisco relationships. We have expanded our commercial sales efforts and have more than doubled our team in 2008 and have expanded into new territories.
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VP, Professional Services
Jeskell, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
November 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 2 months)
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Dir., IT Operations
PDL BioPharma, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PDLI; Pharmaceuticals industry)
January 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 10 months)
Responsible for the overall customer service and implementation of all IT infrastructure. Responsible for an international network that services 1200+ customers in US and France. Maintains multiple data centers and managed a support staff of 23 analysts and technicians.
Responsible for management and operation of the entire enterprise infrastructure including Cisco Networking and RSA Security, SAP/R3, Windows 2003 AD, Exchange, MS SQL Cluster, Sun, Dell, and HP Servers, Oracle 9i/10g RAC DBMS, Red Hat Enterprise, Solaris, Cisco MDS SAN, EMC Storage, and many other validated pharmaceutical applications.
Responsible for $15M+ IT infrastructure budget and negotiation of contracts with hardware, software, network, and telecom vendors. Including planning and budgeting of $8.5M corporate headquarter move planning and design.
Appointed to Corporate Compliance Committee to represent the offices of the CFO and CIO. Responsible for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance of all IS systems. -
VP, Operations & Business Development
Pocket Real Estate
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1999 — December 2005 (6 years 10 months)
Principal and partner in a mobile software development company in the Real Estate industry. Performed all tasks associated with functions of VP, Business Development and VP, Operations. Responsible for most of the initial MLS vendor business development contracts signed. Helped develop and execute site license program to bring in larger long-term re-occurring revenue. Successfully outsourced and manage Tech Support services to company located on island of Maui. Transitioned all IT systems to web-based services…including Accounting, CRM, PBX, eCommerce, Web/FTP, eMail, Network Monitoring, and Wireless service. Provide consulting on all new development projects and responsible for all escalated tech-support calls that cannot be handled by Tech Support and Customer Service. Performed HR and management functions for a staff of 13 employees and contractors. Involved in company merger and acquisition activities, which completed in a successful merger with Borran Software.
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President/Owner
RCS Corp.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
January 1992 — January 2005 (13 years 1 month)
Founder and owner of a consulting firm specializing in providing computer and network consulting…specializing in storage management, server integration, network infrastructure, and mobile computing. Performed all tasks associated with design, installation, and maintenance of production Intel-based Microsoft and Novell networking environments and IBM mainframe data centers. Over the years RCS has been responsible for installing and maintaining literally hundreds of servers and thousands of workstations.
From 1996-2001, managed the company staff size of up to fifteen administrative and technical employees. Responsible for HR and management functions of all employees, including hiring. -
President/Owner
RCS Training Center, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)
March 1997 — March 2003 (6 years 1 month)
Partner in computer training center specializing in storage management, network security, and network administration,
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Business Development Manager & Systems Engineer
Cheyenne Software, Inc.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1994 — March 1996 (2 years)
Responsible for the development of large OEM accounts such as HP/NSD, HP/CMS, Apple, Maxoptix, Mitsubishi, NEC, Sony, STK, Unisys, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Gupta, Storage Dimensions, Overland Data, ADIC, etc.
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Systems, Operations & Storage Analyst
Chevron Information Technology Company
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CVX; Oil & Energy industry)
December 1986 — April 1994 (7 years 5 months)
Network Data Management Analyst, Systems Analyst, and Systems Operations Analyst. Responsible for operation and maintenance of 15 mainframe IBM systems, large automated tape libraries and various Intel-based network systems.
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Computer Operations
IBM Research & ROLM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Hardware industry)
August 1984 — December 1986 (2 years 5 months)
While attending college, I worked as a IBM coop and supplemental employee. Helped move IBM Research from Bldg 28 (Cottle Road) to the new Almaden Research facility. From there I also worked at ROLM after the IBM acqusition.
Steve Rogers’s Education
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Holy Names College
Bachelors, Business Management, Business, 2005 — 2008
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Ohlone College
Associates in Computer Science, GE, Computer Science, 1984 — 1986
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Steve Rogers’s Interests:
I am a father of 4, including a 7 year old girl and a set of 3 year old triplets (g/b/g)! That keeps Teresa and I very busy these days. I have always loved motorcycles and still ride regularly. I also love scuba diving and just about any ocean water sport. I also enjoy RV camping and fishing with the family.
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