Steve Mezak is a successful Silicon Valley technical entrepreneur and international outsourcing expert. Get your copy of his free report on "The Seven Deadly Dangers of Outsourcing Your Software Development and How Companies Like Yours Can Avoid Them" by visiting his Accelerance outsourcing company web site now.

Steve founded Accelerance in 2001 to share his expertise in successfully integrating in-house and outsourced development teams (both on and offshore) for dramatic cost and time savings. As an internationally acclaimed speaker and consultant, Steve has shown hundreds of software executives how to use outsourced development as a major strategic advantage for developing their software. Steve brings a wealth of practical information to his clients, helping them review in-house versus outsourced development options and using his field-tested services to deliver risk-free outsourcing.

Steve is a veteran of 6 startups, including Aspect Development, sold to i2 for $9B and Digital Market, sold to Agile Software for $75M. His roles ranged from technical lead to CTO and CEO. He has over 25 years of software development experience moving from writing software code to responsibility for managing software teams and budgets. Steve has a BS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and studied at UC Berkeley and City University in London.

Steve’s experience in evaluating, managing and integrating successful distributed software development engagements includes:

• Accelerance, Inc. founder and CEO. Accelerance provides management and technical consulting on software development with expert, unbiased advice to clients including: REDmedic™, Asperon™ and Protobuild™.
• SendOrder.com, founder and CEO. SendOrder.com is a Business-to-Business commerce interchange for order and shipment information, integrating ERP and accounting systems via an elegant web forms interface. Steve managed and integrated US and offshore outsourced software development teams saving 80% of labor costs (compared to all in-house development).
• Digital Market, Inc., co-founder and vice president of Technical Services. Digital Market is a pioneering Business-to-Business company in the electronics parts marketplace. Steve was responsible for the design and implementation of the Digital Market Online Marketplace, initially offered as a service for franchised distributors to sell electronic parts on the Web. This product is now offered as an Internet-enabled enterprise software package for companies wanting to use an e-commerce solution to remove costs from their production purchasing processes. Digital Market, Inc. was successfully acquired by Agile Software in 1999.
• Aspect Development, Inc., co-founder and Director of Engineering. Aspect Development is the leader in the Component and Supplier Management (CSM) system market. At Aspect, Steve leveraged his experience in software development to manage the team that created Aspect’s Explorer product, delivering electronic component data & document images to the engineer's desktop. Aspect's customers are some of the largest computer and electronics manufacturers around the world. Aspect had a successful Initial Public Offering in 1996, and was acquired by I2 Technologies in 2000 for $9 billion dollars.
• 25 years of experience in computer system development. Steve’s roles have included CEO, CTO, Vice President, Lead Programmer, Manager, and Consultant. Steve’s technical background covers the design and implementation of systems based on modern Object-Oriented techniques and languages. He has experience with relational databases, client/server, and multi-tier architectures and their use in Internet applications. In addition, he has the practical experience of designing and running a 7x24 Internet data center.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, with High Honors from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, graduate work at UC Berkeley and studies at City University in London, UK.

Management expertise