Steve Freeman is an IT professional with over 15 years IT management experience which includes the design and delivery of network and security solutions reducing costs and establishing on-line accessibility. As a leader in IT management and as a team builder has provided and made available all necessary elements to team members for successful delivery of objectives on projects.
Prior to coming to TEC Services Group, Steve managed the Department of Global Security Operations in a 24x7x365 data center where one of his many accomplishments was to identify all operational audit requirements regarding both physical and logical security, communicating each audit requirement to his security team members. Each requirements progress was analyzed on a weekly basis. Steve’s impact on the security’s team’s responsibilities was an increase in meeting all security audited requirements to 100% compliance within one business quarter. Steve also researched requirements for security department to achieve audited compliance in a PCI hosted environment. Steve effectively communicated requirements to security analyst team members, directing projects associated with each analyst, delivering reports on each projects status to upper management. The impact realized by the company was that all objectives in the PCI compliant environment was reached, achieving 100% success passing external audits
Included in Steve’s professional accomplishments which span both corporate as well as collegiate environments is that he established a fiber optic fully switched network for college where no prior network existed. This environment included the design and installation of file, print, web and email servers. His project included centralized student data with secure access by staff members only. All printers were consolidated into the networked environment. His duties included the management of personnel to support staff, faculty and students in use of networked printers, email and other networked resources. While at the college, Steve evaluated the college’s manual student registration process, designing and introducing an online process. This included the development on an all web based backbone, online course schedules, as well as delivery of registration data to registrar’s department. Steve’s impact at this college was the reduction of errors in student transcripts, reduced printing costs, online registration process reduced student registration from six days to one, a computerized library with Internet connectivity as well as support for off campus connectivity for staff, faculty and students.
Some of Steve’s areas of expertise are: PCI DSS Network Design, IT Management, Computer Forensics, Vulnerability Assessments, Vulnerability Remediation, Operational Audits, Project Management, Physical Security and Access.