Steven Benitez is a new product manager on the Product Management Team, which is part of Research Solutions. He was hired to handle the AWS at Emory service. Steven comes to LITS after spending a year managing the IT equipment for the Emory School of Medicine’s ExCEL (Emory Center for Experiential Learning) department (doing high-fidelity simulations). Before that, he spent ten years doing desktop field support for Clayton County Schools.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Steven grew up in Georgia. He holds AWS certifications in Cloud Practitioner and Cloud Solutions Architect. He earned a computer information systems certificate at Griffin Technical (now Southern Crescent University).
Steven and his wife, Nicole, are kept busy raising their two kids (5 and 15 years old). He is an RC car and drone enthusiast, recently purchasing a high-end drone for improved aerial views.
“AWS and cloud technologies are increasingly important, especially given the pandemic,” says Steven. “These technologies have helped keep Emory up and running during with all of the remote access they provide. I am tickled to death to be working on them.”
You can reach him at steven [dot] benitez [at] emory [dot] edu.
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