Steve worked for 31 years as a computer engineer at Hewlett-Packard and Intel. He was a VLSI designer, contributing to the design of 12+ microprocessors. He did microarchitecture, logic design, and validation, specializing mainly in caches and memory controllers. He took early retirement in 2016. He helped found the Fort Collins Creator Hub, a makerspace in Fort Collins and was the president of the board from 2015 to 2021. He began teaching in the ECE department in 2019 and now works half time teaching three classes each semester. His classes include ECE204, ECE251 and ECE571. One of his classes is IDEA 310L – a microcontroller class taught at the Richardson Design Center that he helped create.