Steven is an independent consultant specialized in Microsoft Unified Communications. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and has been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from 2006-2010 for Exchange and since 2011 for Lync, now Office Apps and Services.

Steven has a background in telephony and is a Lync (Voice) Ignite trainer. He was a technical reviewer for the OCS R2 Resource Kit and OCS R2 Ignite training, and a contributing writer for the Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit. 

He is a frequent speaker on Teams and Skype for Business, on Microsoft events  and on community events.