Steve serves as a technology consultant to business executives, intellectual property attorneys, and litigators. As President of Axian for thirteen years, Steve developed the company into a premier software engineering consulting firm. Prior to Axian, Steve was a vice president and business unit manager at ATEQ Corp. and Cascade Microtech. He previously held a wide range of technical management positions at Spectra-Physics’ Laser Systems Division. He began his career as a Research and Development engineer at Hewlett-Packard where he developed software for HP’s first microprocessor and was a manufacturing engineer for HP’s first DRAM-based minicomputers. Steve holds an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.