Steve was born and raised in Portland. At an early age it was clear that he was an outdoors oriented person. As an explorer scout he was one of the founding members  of Search and Rescue Post 631. It was at this time that Steve took the Mazamas basic climbing school and climbed Mt Hood for the first time, and in a short time got hooked on climbing. At Portland State University geology proved the the perfect fit for the climbing life. He had to go climbing to study the rocks that made up the mountains ...right. These "geological/mountaineering" trips took him all over the Northwest, as well as south to Yosemite.  Exploration geology in the form of employment soon took him to British Columbia, the Yukon, and western Alberta where he searched for base metal mineral deposits. After five years in western Canada an opportunity to live in Rio de Janeiro Brazil for a year appeared on the door step. Bags were quickly packed and he moved south to assume the role of a geological systems analyst developing a data base of Brazilian mineral occurrences and deposits. The result of this project was one of the earliest geographical information systems on record as well as a precursor of dBase. Brazil hooked him and following the completion of the analyst contract he went back to mineral exploration. Over the next 15 or so years he worked throughout Brazil, as well as conducting studies in Peru and Mexico. When the collapse of the metals market at the close of the 80's start of the 90's it became clear that a new profession was in order. At this point he returned to  Portland. Parleying experience with computers and many years of managing exploration projects he formalized his project management education. For the last decade he has focused on Information technology project management for diverse business sectors. Needless to say he resumed climbing in the northwest with forays to the Tetons, City of Rock, Squamish, Canadian Rockies, Ouray, and Cody to name a few of the areas...... To be continued

• Travel - I'm a big travel buff. My family and I love traveling around the world.