Robert W. Stepeck

New York, NY Southbury, CT

adzem2@r.postjobfree.com 917-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/robert-stepeck/

Chief Technology / Information Security Officer

Cloud Infrastructure Security and Compliance Product and Software Development

Data, Analytics and Reporting

Hands-on CTO/CISO with a legacy of designing and delivering innovative, cost-effective, secure, and high-performance IT infrastructure and applications working collaboratively with C-Level and Board colleagues. Deep experience with finance, sales and marketing, healthcare, Internet, manufacturing, R&D, and aerospace industries.

Areas of Expertise:

Global Leadership and Team Building Enterprise Security Architecture Process & Operational Excellence

Digital Transformation Business Strategy and Transformation Infrastructure, Architecture, Engineering

Policy, Governance, and Compliance Continuous Improvement Stakeholder & Business Engagement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CLARITY SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS, Madison, CT 2019 to Present

Chief Technology Officer / Chief Information Security Officer

Clarity is the leading provider of healthcare communications and member engagement and is part of the Morgan Stanley technology portfolio. Managed cybersecurity, product, engineering. Infrastructure, compliance, customer support and desktop. Designed dynamically scalable, distributed client data processing system that was both efficient and performant in handling highly variable workloads. Led team of 200+. Oversaw $20M+ budget. Reported to CEO.

Took successful startup to scalable SaaS company, leveraging dedicated development teams, Agile processes, Jira, and Confluence. Focus on building tools to remove manual processes. Restructured technology and operations, aligning company roadmap across all departments and stakeholders.

Architected and migrated on-premises and private cloud applications to AWS, saving $4M+ per year on infrastructure costs while increasing security, reliability, and client satisfaction and reducing day to day maintenance via automated DevOps.

Leveraged multiple offshore relationships to scale development and outsource data onboarding, increasing capacity and saving $1.4M in year one.

Implemented state-of-the-art security tooling, 3rd party security partners and built a dedicated in-house cybersecurity team, ensuring enterprise level information security across all departments, systems and data.

Instituted processes for cybersecurity training, vulnerability scans, regular penetration tests (technical and social), system software updates, integrating with advanced monitoring and automated remediation.

Architected and built data warehouse to provide KPIs, analysis and state of the art visualizations, using Qlik to both internal teams and external clients. Leveraged AWS AI/ML for next best action for medical services.

Built out enterprise level Customer Experience team, including advanced software to create, track and analyze critical KPI metrics to allow for continuous improvement of processes and training, improving customer satisfaction metrics 50%.

Owner of compliance, ensuring state of the art security and compliance to ensure protection of customer Personal Health Information (PHI) and gained HITRUST, SOC2 and HIPAA certifications.

CYRUS CAPITAL PARTNERS, New York, NY 2015 to 2019

Chief Technology Officer / Chief Information Security Officer

Cyrus Capital is a hedge fund specializing in distressed credit with over $4B under management. Led team of 75+ and $25M budget reporting to COO. Delivered secure and agile technology footprint, leveraged a needs-oriented / product-first managerial approach to IT that transitioned a rudimentary cybersecurity system into a state-of-the-art platform that became the envy of Wall Street for boutique hedge funds. Ensured critical day-to-day functionality, conducting weekly workstation and server updates, real-time asset scanning, and annual social / technical penetration testing, security training and DR implementation (with full cutover). Designed and implemented corporate data warehouse containing golden record MDM standard for all trading, investor, fund accounting, payroll and vendor data.

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Conducted company-wide listening tour before introducing pragmatic systems and security infrastructure, reducing overall IT budget by 50%, increasing employee retention and turning handwritten financial reports taking days to complete into fully automated, gold master-based reporting generated within seconds.

Migrated production infrastructure to Azure public cloud, increasing reliability and reducing costs by $1.7M per year.

Instituted uniformity and redundancy across all global offices via common infrastructure, software, security and processes while at the same time overseeing design, deployment and monitoring of all information security systems, policies and procedures, including security architecture, R&D and 3rd-party integration.

Designed and implemented enterprise cybersecurity architecture based on traditional and AI-based systems, producing overlapping “fields of fire” for immediate detection and automated mitigation of technical and social attacks.

Partnered with CIO / Owner, COO and CFO to create a unified business culture, analyze existing operations and introduce proactive and responsive IT and security solutions, addressing immediate and long-term strategic goals.

Transitioned “ad-hoc” fixed paper reporting process into a leading-edge, fully interactive, Qlik-based reporting system comprised of internal data warehouse and 3rd party datasets.

Directed complete transformation of multiple departments’ business functions, upgrading a hand-built, one-off Excel-based system into a combination of streamlined 3rd-party and custom-built in-house applications, resulting in a massive reduction in errors, cost and wasted time and effort.

Oversaw technology design and buildout of a new office with move executed over weekend, delivering uniformity via Surface Pro laptops / docks, designing lighting, simplifying AV & VOIP systems, leveraging Zoom-based conferencing, installing integrated furniture, and architecting data room, servers, networking, and redundant power / internet.

NOVUS PARTNERS, New York, NY 2011 to 2015

Chief Technology Officer / Chief Operations Officer

Fulfilled dual CTO/COO role, managed $10M technology budget while transitioning boutique portfolio analytics and data solutions firm from a promising start-up with a limited prototype into a SaaS product with a world-class engineering team supporting high-end allocator and manager clients with over $2T in assets. Led team of 100+ reporting to CEO.

Cultivated a collaborative team of risk & fixed income experts and top developers to architect a scalable, distributed, high-volume / high-speed system, enabling hedge funds, endowments and foundations to maximize ROI through discovery of true investment acumen and risk, proprietary industry insights and effortless data management.

Implemented pragmatic approach to technology, delivering a leading-edge platform founded on proven and tested principles, saving over $1.5M per year by designing and implementing customized Equinix data center.

Introduced repeatable and redundant engineering process and governance controls in Agile and test-driven development environments, resulting in major reduction in production issues and support time.

Employed sleeves-up / door’s open / lead-by-example managerial approach, growing technology department from a staff of 10 to over 100 capable and driven product owners, architects, developers, data scientists, testers and sysops engineers.

Oversaw design and deployment of all information security infrastructure and practices and implemented disaster recovery at a marginal cost by splitting production facilities across 2 datacenters.

Capitalized on highly effective organizational and time management skills while delivering projects on-time and on budget, including Risk Allocators, Fixed Income, MemSQL, ETL SOA migration and datacenter build / migration.

Designed system topology (servers, networking, SAN) with real-time telemetry (AppDynamics) and automated monitoring / alerting to ensure high availability (“four nines” uptime SLA).

TARANGIRE, New York, NY 2004 to 2012

Owner / Chief Technology Officer

Created and managed day-to-day operation of full life cycle enterprise software development firm with annual operating budget of $10M and internal staff of 25 engineers and data scientists supplemented by up to 100+ consultant / offshore personnel.

Technical Architect, Program Manager, Operations Analyst, Primary Developer and Program Manager, overseeing the design, implementation and deployment of customized hardware / software solutions.

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Full P&L accountability, evaluating existing technology infrastructure including servers, software, web, security and databases, documenting and directing remedial action and creating governance, standards and best practices throughout IT departments and entire organizations.

Architect, analyst and primary developer for a suite of high-performance financial applications using Java, C# /.NET 3.0, Activ Financial market data, Sterling execution and SQL Server.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

VISALIA, New York, NY, Owner / Chief Technology Officer

JP MORGAN, New York, NY, Officer of the Bank / Manager - Foreign Exchange Rates

PRODIGY SERVICES COMPANY, White Plains, NY, Director of Reception Systems

NORDEN SYSTEMS, Norwalk, CT, Air to Air Mode Engineer

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT

SKILLS

AWS:

S3 / RDS / Terraform / Lambda / Route53 / CloudWatch / KMS / Kubernetes

Languages:

C++, C#, Java, Scala, JavaScript, Assembly

Frameworks:

.NET, J2EE, Angular.js, Backbone.js, Play, Spark, Apache, Mesos

Databases:

SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MemSQL, Mongo, DB2, GridGain, Hazelcast

Reporting:

Qlik, Tableau, SSRS, Crystal Reports, Cognos

Platforms:

Salesforce, Thompson Reuters, Bloomberg, Geneva, FIS, SS&C, Electra, Xpressfeed, Sterling, Activ Financial, Microsoft Office

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