Steve Cline is a seasoned GemStone DBA and Smalltalk specialist with over two decades of experience modernizing mission-critical systems in finance, utilities, and telecommunications and eight years focused on DevOps for core business object databases. He blends deep object-oriented expertise (VisualWorks/VisualAge Smalltalk, ENVY) with practical automation, unit testing, and SOA practices to improve deployment and maintenance workflows. At ICE he automates and operationalizes GemStone maintenance; earlier roles include architecting financial settlement systems and re-architecting telephony provisioning for greater reuse and testability. Known for mentoring teams, building developer tools, and driving process improvements (from build czar to pager-to-wiki operational fixes), he delivers reliable, test-first solutions that reduce mean time to repair. An interesting non-obvious detail: his background spans biology and aquaculture at the graduate level, reflecting a long-standing aptitude for disciplined, systems-level thinking beyond software.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Studies, MS, Computer Studies at North Carolina State University
Biology, Biology at Georgia Institute of Technology
BA, Zoology, BA, Zoology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M. Aquaculture, Aquaclture & Fisheries, M. Aquaculture, Aquaclture & Fisheries at Auburn University
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