Steve is a team leader with over three decades of experience on large-scale public projects, K-12 education, and commercial, including hospitality, medical, and retail. An ardent supporter of left- and right-brain skills, Steve champions the importance of drawing in creative design and efficient and effective project management.
Steve is a licensed architect in Oregon and Washington.
Do you know the difference betwixt bison and buffalo?
No? This native Nebraskan does. Steve grew up in the sandhills and cornfields of Midwestern America, herding cattle on horseback from one field to another each summer and winter, and survived The Night of the Twisters - not the movie, but the real-life 1980 event.
He grew up in a small town wandering with no actual limits 'until the streetlights came on.' Holidays, summers, and weekends were spent working at the family farm and roaming the fields with his adventure buddy, Nugget, a white Shetland pony mix. They spent hours and hours exploring the countryside. 'Suppertime' (in the absence of streetlights) was the deadline for being off the horse and washed up – Steve, not Nugget.
His love of adventure didn't stop there; before his interest in architecture, young Steve aspired to be a pilot on his way to explore space. Although his high-flying dreams were dashed (he's got many positive attributes, but 20:20 vision isn't one of them), and he is too creative for a stiff engineering career, his love of space lives on. He loves all things Star Wars - movies, TV, games, you name it.
What else does Steve love?
Burrito Bandito in Red Bluff, California, is a guilty pleasure when road-tripping: giant, overly salty burritos that hit the spot – especially when it's 110 degrees outside (and it's always 110 in a Red Bluff summer). Apparently, this is the time and temperature that Steve likes them. (We're not sure it's a solid rec.)
He’s pro-metric system.
Once upon a time, Steve worked on a massive project in the Middle East that required not only designing hundreds of buildings and infrastructure but also cross-referencing the International Building Code, the International Fire Code, and the antiquated Dubai Code (shout-out to Tom Jaleski for his part on the team). Eighty pages of cross-referenced code sections later... he will definitively say that the metric system makes way more sense and that Ronald Reagan needs to let it go.
