Biography
Innovation
Steve is the author of the high-tech book Innovate With Influence.
School
Steve grew up in Dorchester and Lynn, Massachusetts before settling in at North Andover High School, MA, and is a proud member of the Scarlet Knight basketball fraternity, which has qualified for the Mass State Tournament for over 40 years running. He graduated with a BS in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire in 1987, and immediately enrolled in grad school at UNH. Twenty years later he received his degree. Long story...
Work
Steve has spent his entire career working on as many storage products and technologies as he could get his hands on. Products include CLARiiON, Navisphere, Storage Scope, PowerPath, and Centera. Technologies include RAID, failover, caching, management technologies, databases, device drivers, and CAS. Steve enjoys the creative process and came in 3rd place out of 410 entries in EMC's inaugural world-wide innovation contest, and 2nd out of 984 entries the subsequent year. He is continually leading EMC in the development of next generation ideas, as evidenced by the generation of well over 140 patent applications on which he is named.
Family
Steve's wife Katy and kids Becky and Matthew share one hobby: travel. Steve yanked both his kids out of elementary school for 6 weeks, bid adieu to EMC and camped cross-country between California and Florida. They've recently completed trips to Ireland and Scotland, as well as Holland, Belgium, France and Germany. Carribean is next!
Church
Steve's grandfather was a Methodist minister. Steve's Dad is a Methodist minister. Steve's uncle is a Methodist minister. Steve's sister is a Methodist minister. Steve met his wife at Methodist church camp. Needless to say Steve was encouraged to participate in church life, and actively serves in many capacities at Liberty Church, on the Board of Directors, with the youth programs, and as a playwright and director for many drama productions. He is also pursuing a Diploma in Bible and Theology. It's all very Methodical.
Play
In addition to travel, Steve's interest are mostly outdoor pursuits, including camping, splitting wood all winter, pond hockey, skiing, Boy Scout camping trips, hiking with his son and Golden Retriever (Boomer), and playing shortstop on the neighborhood softball team. Hiking exploits can be found here.
