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Steve is one of two founders of Cortex Medical Management Systems, Inc. (Cortex), and has served as vice president and chief information officer since joining the organization in 1986. From mentoring employees, to establishing strategic direction for Cortex's products and services, Steve's 20 years in the organization have been focused on helping others - employees and customers - achieve success.
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Steve's early years were spent in Carson City, Nevada - where his father worked for the Bureau of Reclamation of the U.S. Government. When his father took an assignment in Afghanistan, it meant that Steve also moved. School via correspondence in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan was not to his liking so he moved to Kodiakanal, in India's Madras State - where after two years Steve graduated from Kodiakanal International High School.
His three years of attendance at the University of Utah was interrupted by the Selective Service - the Viet Nam era draft - and most of Steve's service in the United States military took place on Okinawa, Japan. After the military, Steve attended American University in Washington, D.C.; the Bachelor of Science degree he earned in 1972 was one of the nation's earliest programs focused on the business and operational aspects of information technology.
Steve began his career at Washington Gas Light Company in the nation's capital, where he was the chief programmer on their 400,000 customer accounting system. Lured to the City of Seattle - he created large customer-focused information systems that efficiently handled billing and collections needs of the city's large utilities. Following three successful years with the City, Steve went to work for Group Health Cooperative as the Manager of Software Development in 1978. All of this experience and knowledge has come in handy at Cortex - and this is where he met Stan Gordon, the other founder of Cortex.
Open water sailing is in Steve's bones and he acknowledges that a sailor's greatest day is "the day he buys a sailboat" and second greatest day is "the day he sells the sailboat."
A resident of downtown Seattle, Steve walks to Cortex's offices daily - located in the heart of the world renowned Pike Place Market - and finds time to spend with his three grown children and his three grandchildren. | 