Donny Cannoy

VP & Chief People Officer, Software & Systems Architecture at Steele Consulting

Donny Cannoy has helped establish a world-class culture at Steele Consulting, and is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach. He has been in Software Development for over 23 years.

Donny is an accomplished senior architect with high levels of experience in most web technologies and is one of the premier experts on SQL Server configuration and optimization for high-volume critical success environments. He has developed multi-location live sync database applications with built-in fault tolerance.

Donny has helped architect, deploy, and support redundant data centers, with disaster recovery strategies, and is an expert at network configuration, tuning, and troubleshooting. He is a deployment professional in networking, storage, servers, voice, virtualization, and security, having worked with Big-IP f5, Dell, Cisco, Fortigate, SonicWall, VMWare, NetApp, and many others. He is also an expert at most databases like Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Access, and mySQL. Donny regularly works with high-volume, critical applications for large companies such as GE, InterPark, Desert Forwarding, StageCoach Cartage Inc, Responsive Learning and InterviewStream.

He spends his free time bowling in leagues and tournaments, refereeing and coaching youth soccer matches in American Youth Soccer Organization, playing music, and pastoring a church he and his wife started in 2010, Upper Valley Vineyard.