Stephen Years

Updated March 2013

Entrepreneur. Dad. Rugby Fan.

Stephen Years is a high-tech management professional, entrepreneur, and digital artist residing in Fresno, California. His career has spanned the technology world, providing him experience with web applications, social media, software, servers, databases, networking and telecommunications. However, no matter what field Stephen has worked in, he has found his greatest strength lies in his ability to take extremely complex subjects and communicate them to his audience in a succinct and visually compelling manner - thus facilitating understanding and acceptance.

Timeline

President

5 Rockets, Inc.
Oct 1, 2006 - Current
Internet marketing, design and strategy professional services organization

Founder

JuiceScape, Inc.
Oct 1, 2006 - Nov 1, 2007
JuiceScape was a start-up software company seeking to address the problem of growing power costs in the data center through intelligent software systems for server power conservation. JuiceScape’s software technology helped data center operators to report, optimize, and automate policies for server power consumption in the data center, reducing their overall power bill by 15% – 40%. As a founder of this company my responsibilities primarily focused on business planing, sales strategy and.securing investment dollars.

Technology Strategist

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sep 1, 2000 - Oct 1, 2006
Provide in-depth assessment of the technologies of other companies and analyze them for strengths/weaknesses relative to Sun’s technology portfolio in order to determine their level of threat, desirability as a potential acquisition target, or fitness as a strategic partner.

Manager

KMPG Consulting, LLP
Jun 1, 1999 - Sep 1, 2000
Managed team of consultants to delineate business process engineering methodology of OSS/BSS service offering for the telecommunications sector. In particular, this methodology focused on how to translate an enterprises current business processes into application logic used by various integrated software products in the OSS/BSS

Business Strategist

Interval Research Corporation
Jun 1, 1998 - Jun 1, 1999
Operated in a small, cross-functional team that evaluated future business opportunities for current research projects, which included: high-speed consumer electronics networking interconnects, ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless, 360-degree high-definition video cameras, satellite based data broadcasting and video compression/decompression ASICs

Founder / CEO

re.vu
Feb 1, 2011 - Current
Don't send your resume. Tell your story.

The site comes out of Beta. Welcome to 1.0

re.vu
Aug 17, 2011

Pitch data broadcasting company to Paul Allen and Vulcan Ventures

Interval Research Corporation
Jan 5, 1999

Promoted to Manager

KPMG Consulting
Jun 15, 2000

Join the Office of the Chief Technologist for Volume Systems Products, a $4B hardware division at Sun

Sun Microsystems
Feb 3, 2003

Acquire Kealia Systems

Sun Microsystems
Feb 8, 2004
Kealia Systems, founded by original Sun founder Andy Bechtolsheim, was acquired by Sun to kick-start the development of AMD-based 64-bit servers. I was a member of the technical due diligence team that ensured Kealia met Sun's technical requirements.

Acquire Aduva

Sun Microsystems
Feb 19, 2006
Sun acquires Aduva, software for Solaris and Linux patch management. I was a member of the technical due diligence team that ensured Aduva met Sun's technical requirements.

Founded company to address the energy consumption in the data center

JuiceScape
Oct 1, 2006

Quote

“Stephen is unparalleled in his ability to transform complex concepts into clear and user-friendly forms. ”

Rachelle Vogler

Colleague at Sun Microsystems
“Steve is a great team player - very analytical and thorough. He is willing to go the extra mile to meet an objective. I enjoyed working with Steve and would welcome an opportunity to team with him again.”

Frank Timons

Colleague at Sun Microsystems