Steve started his career in the electronics field with Control Data Corporation working on one of the early 3.5-inch Wren disc drives. After that, he went to work for Rosemount Engineering in 1985 in their solid-state research and development facility. His responsibilities were to develop automated test stations for data collection and analysis of their high-and-low pressure strain-gauge transducers. At that time, the test stations were controlled using HP-Basic and Steve eventually became an HP-UNIX system administrator for the data collection systems.

After 11 years at Rosemount Engineering, Steve and his family decided it was time to get out of the Twin Cities and started work at the young and upcoming Hunt Technologies, Inc. His responsibilities as the Functional Test Engineer there again were for automated testing equipment.

After 6 years he went to work for Nortech Systems and was the Operations Manager for an electronics repair facility. The work was primarily on GE Medical Systems equipment: CT Scanners, X-Ray, Nuclear medicine cameras, etc. They were responsible for Global Repair Operations of over 350 individual circuit boards. Steve has now returned to Hunt Technologies and is an Engineering Project Manager.