Stew Redfield
Previous Companies: Vubiquity, Vigilar, Wells Real Estate Funds, Visionary Systems, Concert Global Communications, Consultec
Stew Redfield, CISA CISSP, cut his computing teeth in 1983 in the hi-tech Mecca of Montana. After dabbling in Bio-Medical Engineering at Vanderbilt, he returned home and completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in History from Montana State University. While attending MSU, he worked for both the City of Bozeman Police Department and the MSU Police Department, and running a computer consulting business on the side.
He entered the ‘real’ world in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico working as a jack-of-all-computing trades for the State of New Mexico’s Medicaid Processor, Consultec (then ACS, now Xerox). UNIX Servers, Databases, WebServers, Security, Network Servers, PCs, Routers, TelCo, Mainframe programming all fell within his job responsibilities (and interest). After demonstrating the usefulness and cost effectiveness of UNIX environments, he was brought to Atlanta to establish and implement nationwide UNIX strategies for numerous State contracts. Moving from Medical to TelCo, Stew then went to Concert (originally the British Telecom and MCI (pre- Worldcom, pre-Verizon) pre-merger company). Here he led UNIX implementations around the globe, built a datacenter in the U.K. 98% remotely, and was properly indoctrinated into the security arena as well as 24x7x365xWorldWide production support.
From TelCo to Financial, he was employee #18 in a start-up that handled real-time processing and evaluation of Credit Reports from Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. While there he also implemented both UNIX, Web, and Security infrastructures for a niche Credit Card Company, as well as the start-up. Continuing up the Financial food chain, Stew lead the Architecture side of IT at Wells Real Estate Funds, the premier real estate investment firm in the U.S. His involvement spread to all aspects of Security, Networking, and Computing as well as architecting and implementing new solutions to support Wells’ staff and customers. Shifting back to direct security, Stew led the architecture, implementation, and support areas as the Director of Security Engineering at Securiant which through acquisition led to Director of Security Architecture for Vigilar, where his expertise was leveraged throughout the new organization. After some family medical issues, he returned to Montana and fell in with Avail Media (which became Avail-TVN, then Vubiquity through a variety of acquisitions and leadership changes) in a variety of roles enhancing, optimizing, and facilitating video processing infrastructure, operations, and cost efficiencies over nine years.
Now at DigitalGlue, Stew is leading the Cloud Services architecture, integration, and engineering efforts for video processing, while leveraging his experience in optimizing creative.space storage platforms.