EasyStreet Hires New VP of Engineering and Operations

Beaverton, Ore. — June 21, 2010 — EasyStreet® Online Services Inc. has hired Steve Knipple as the company’s Vice President of Engineering and Operations.

Steve has 15 years experience in IT enterprise strategy, architecture, management and operations. He is a specialist in Corporate IT transformational programs of local, national and international scale. Most recently, as Senior Manager of Global IT Architecture, Deployment and Operations at Munich-based Wacker Chemical Corporation, Steve led the company-wide IT infrastructure standardization and consolidation including the global deployment of virtualized hosting services as well as improving the firm’s disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.
 

Steve holds an M.S. in Applied Information Management from the University of Oregon where his thesis work focused on leveraging existing and future IT investments to realize maximum value. He earned undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Said Rich Bader, EasyStreet president and CEO, “Steve joins the company as we expand our facilities and services in order to better serve the most demanding of Northwest companies. He is well prepared to help us serve those IT professionals in need of regional, national-class data center services.”

 

Said Knipple, “I am excited about the core capabilities and assets of EasyStreet as well as the strong conviction to expand the firm to serve the most complex needs of Northwest businesses. It’s a great opportunity to join Easystreet at this critical time of growth.

 

About EasyStreet 
EasyStreet® Online Services is Oregon's largest independent Information Technology (IT) services provider. Its national-class data center and team of technical professionals provide reliable, responsive services and support, and ensure outstanding performance and scalability for more than 2,300 Northwest businesses. EasyStreet is dedicated to providing services for IT professionals, including high-speed Internet circuits (up to GigE), managed servers, colocation, monitoring, storage and hosted Microsoft® Exchange®. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., EasyStreet is locally owned and managed with a team of 40 employees.