Steve Heckler

Steve founded Accelebrate in March 2002. He manages Accelebrate’s overall curriculum, works with clients to design enterprise-wide and team-level learning solutions, manages Accelebrate's overall business, and teaches several times a year (which he loves). Since 2002, Accelebrate has grown from startup to a $5 million/year in revenue and has taught for clients in more than 20 countries, spanning every continent except Antarctica.

Specialties:

• Designing enterprise-wide technical training solutions for corporations, government agencies, and universities
• Facilitating the development of team-level training programs that build genuine competency among the participants in the topics taught, not just "check the box" skills for passing a multiple-choice test
• Utilizing current trends in cloud and on-premise application development and hosting
• Blending synchronous and asynchronous learning to maximize results and convenience
• Leading international business initiatives (Accelebrate has delivered classes in-person and online for students in more than 20 countries)

Prior to founding Accelebrate, Steve served nearly seven years as Vice President and then President of a Washington, DC-based IT training firm.

Steve is passionate about education and ensuring that every Accelebrate student has a successful class with a knowledgeable, engaging instructor and hands-on material that is directly relevant to real-world projects. Within the firm, Steve is one of Accelebrate's lead instructors for Apache httpd, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, and IIS.

Outside of Accelebrate, Steve enjoys spending time with his family, helping lead workouts with a local fitness boot camp, traveling, teaching English and math skills to refugee children, and reading about foreign policy and current affairs. He holds Bachelor's and Master’s degrees from Stanford University.