Instructor  ::  Mustapha "Steve" Derzi

Steve is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a highly accomplished consultant with a broad experience in software development, training and consulting. He has extensive experience in successful business startup and management with 21 years of real-world experience that includes business development, financial administration, human resources management, project planning / implementation, employee training, sales and marketing, inventory control, and customer service and maintains a deep knowledge of numerous software applications for both utilization and client support. 

Steve was recently recognized by Microsoft as a MCITP Charter Member. Charter Members are the pioneering group of individuals who achieved a certification shortly after the certification was available and can only be issued to a fixed number of people.

He is a co-founder of Computerized Business Solutions Incorporated of Baton Rouge, a software development and consulting company where he serves as a Software Architect and a Senior Technical Consultant. He holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science with a minor in Mechanical Engineering. Steve enjoys spending time with his family. His hobbies include building and programming Lego robots.

Steve resides in Louisiana, teaching remotely via The GRID.

Certifications

  • MCT
  • MCPD:Web Developer
  • MCPD:Windows Developer
  • MCITP:Business Intelligence Developer
  • MCITP:Database Developer
  • MCITP:Database Administrator
  • MCITP:Enterprise Support Technician
  • MCTS:Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Business Intelligence Development
  • MCTS:SQL Server 2005
  • MCTS:Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Configuration
  • MCTS:Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Configuration
  • MCTS:.Net Framework 2.0: Web Applications
  • MCTS:.Net Framework 2.0: Windows Applications
  • MCTS:Microsoft Windows Vista: Configuration
  • MCDST:Microsoft Windows XP
  • MOS-MI:Microsoft Office Certified Master Instructor

"What people are saying!"

Steve Derzi is an outstanding instructor. He explains the material in a clear, concise manner. The course work for SSIS gave us a good overview of the tools and concepts. Furthermore, with minimal review, I am able to successfully work on the SSIS project.

Steve is such a great instructor! He is very knowledgeable and his style of teaching is very productive since he uses both the powerpoint and tied it with the SetFocus training materials so we know exactly where we are and what we are covering.

Steve couldn't have been any more cordial! It was as pleasure taking instruction from him.

Steve is great in lending a hand for all exercises and labs ...for the questions that I have, he assisted even during breaks.

He explains things really well and you can observe that he is an expert and still being an expert he was able to impart the knowledge in ways that made me (us) understand it better.

I hope SetFocus will have more instructors like Steve!