Steve Oren

• Lead and manage a team of highly talented engineers with varying degrees of experience, with direct responsibility to deliver complex cloud based software-defined data center (SDDC) software implementations across multiple data centers across the US.
• Provide technical leadership both for my immediate team and more broadly across the organization.
• Provide direction and leadership for complex technical design discussions across various stakeholders and teams.
• Research, design and implement industry best practices in regard to provisioning, maintaining, and monitoring cloud environments.

As Chief VMware Cloud Architect, I brought years of hands-on technical and team management experience designing and implementing enterprise-level cloud architectures using VMware, AWS, and Azure technologies, including:

• VMware ESXi: Over 14 years of experience working with VMware ESXi, deploying and managing large ESXi host HA/DR clusters in enterprise-level virtualized environments.

• VMware Cloud Director: Deep expertise in architecting, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure with VMware Cloud Director, including creating virtual data centers, managing resource allocation, allocation models, and configuring policies for service providers and customer tenants.

• VMware Cloud Director Availability: Designed, deployed, and managed customer onboarding and cloud migration and disaster recovery solutions using VCDA, deployed across multiple data centers and customer on-premise environments.

• VMware NSX: Strong understanding of network virtualization concepts and designed, deployed, and managed NSX to enable micro-segmentation, load balancing, IPSEC VPN, and other advanced network services in virtualized environments, fully integrated with Cloud Director.

• VMware vSAN: Deep experience designing and implementing hyper-converged infrastructure solutions with VMware vSAN, including configuring storage policies, managing disk groups, and optimizing performance.

Serverside Inc. was acquired by Liquid Web LLC on November 1, 2019.

Serverside provided IaaS/SaaS and managed web hosting, as well as web development services focusing on enterprise-level Microsoft Windows-based content management software systems, to a large diverse global customer base, including:

• PayPal International

• eBay

• Xerox

• Wendy's International

• Lexmark International