Stephen O. Adams, Jr is principal consultant at A&S Information Processing, doing business out of Marietta, Georgia. Stephen is a seasoned team oriented IT professional with extensive track record in application, network and general infrastructure rollout. He has more than 25 years of hands on project implementation, of laptop and desk top deployment, server, switches as well as a comprehensive hands on knowledge of general IT infrastructure management and rollout. Stephen is recognized for exceptional organization building skills and the ability to motivate others to achieve individuals and organizational goals.
In his role as principal IT consultant and business development manager, has built successful collaborations with one hundred and fifty clients companies, spanning small, medium and large enterprises. Many of his client are fortune 500 multi nationals.
Prior to his role in establishing A&S Information Processing, Inc, he held senior positions at West Africa Telecommunication, Liberia ltd, Team Liberia Construction, Liberia ltd, Unisys Corporation, IBM Corporation, US Army Reserves, and the Liberian Telecommunication Authority.
Stephen was Senior Vice President ,Technical service for West African Telecommunication. In this role, he managed the technology rollout across 4 West African countries. Project activities included physical build out of towers as well as directing and negotiation co-location agreements with other telco providers and government regulators. He also supervised all technology acquisition and deployment across the enterprise, supervising a broad team of more than 100 employees.
At the Liberian Telecommunication Authority, he serve as Director of Engineering, where he supervise the mapping of the countries spectrum and lead discussions with Service providers to regularize and stabilize the fracture new Telco sector in the country.
At Team Liberia Construction, Inc., Stephen served a CEO and president. In this role, Stephen worked with several government agencies and negotiated several major construction Projects. Key projects during his tenure, included the Bolola bridge, The Sinoe Highway bridge, and the bridge connecting Ivory Coast and Liberia In Grand Gedeh County. His tenure at Team Liberia saw thee company grow from a annual revenue base of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to more than five million US dollars.
In his role as a Senior Enterprise Consultant for US Army USARC Data Center consolidation Project, he provides comprehensive guidance and direction to the United States Army Reserves on its World Wide Data Center Consolidation effort.. His was responsible for providing technical expertise in the area of Enterprise Servers, Enterprise Application and collaboration solution, Storage, Data Archiving, and Disaster Recovery. He was engaged in all phase of SAN, NAS and CAS and COOP prototyping and responsible for articulating long-term goals and strategic directions for the Army’s effort.
At IBM Global Services, he was Technical Project Manager with responsibility for its Worldwide Windows 200 product prototyping project, Microsoft and Intel while managing a staff of 50 engineers worldwide. He also supervised 250 technicians and engineers while managing WorldCom’s Global infrastructure rollout. His e-business experience includes, managing cluster definition and deployment to major bank and university E-business projects; designing and implementing enterprise-wide Windows 200 Migration and Assessment for the world’s largest chipmaker. As Technical Manager at IBM, his work included development, deployment and management of global prototyping for Telecommunications network that resulted in significant revenue growth. He also played a key role in the Georgia Pacific Product, Forestry and distribution unit migration from a Mainframe to a client server distributed computing model. This project involved more than 125 actual hands-on sites across the U.S., Canada and South America.
At Microbilt Inc, Financial Division, He was a Senior Analyst, responsible for the company’s networking infrastructure; and also developed and implemented WAN electronic banking for Wachovia, Low Country Financial and Liberty Bank, resulting in $4M in new annual revenues.
Stephen received a Bachelors in Business Administration from Mercer University, a Master degree in Project Management from George Washington University, A Master degree in Applied Computer science from North Western University, USA. He has completed extensive professional development course work in thee Technology sphere, including Big Data analysis, Cyber security and cloud infrastructure.