Stephen O'Neill

Consulted on multiple projects related to Cloud Computing, messaging, web services, High Availability, performance, storage and participating on two Techical Advisory Boards for emerging companies.

Led a 25-person team including DBAs, System Administrators, NOC, network engineering and Helpdesk to support four Collocation facilities. Served as key executive team member responsible for all operations, IT and decisions related to production and corporate infrastructure. Managed capital expenditure and operations budget and all vendor negotiations.

Directed five managers and a team of 50 in all technology initiatives to support complete product life cycle including Development, QA, IT and Operations. Oversaw the complete budget including infrastructure costs, headcount and facilities. Negotiated with vendors on purchase discounts and cost of ownership.

Led a team of 40 on-site, domestic, and international engineers and managers that supported all search technology from front-facing search servers, mid-tier aggregators, backend data mart, data warehouse, SAN and NAS globally. Other responsibilities included: hardware/software evaluation and procurement; new server builds; and 24x7 global support for all production servers.