Steve leads infrastructure and platform development for Symantec’s new Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE) group. Symantec's CPE group is chartered with building and running essential platform and infrastructure services for next generation Symantec products and services. Steve has extensive and broad-based technology development, operations, and business management experience. He has been featured for leadership in OpenStack operational computing, and as an advocate of the advantages of cloud computing as integral to accelerating internal innovation. Steve has been part of the OpenStack community since Diablo and was part of the team that took Essex into production. Steve is a strong proponent of opensource as pivotal in transforming an engineering culture; that the benefits of merit-based, transparent, and peer-reviewed designs and code is where true innovation occurs.