Steve is the President of RAIN, the UHF RFID Alliance. As well as being president of RAIN, Steve is the president of High Tech Aid, a company based in Pittsburgh, PA providing consulting services about Automatic Identification and Data Capture technologies. He is a member of the AIDC 100 and is the 2010 winner of the Richard R Dilling award for services to the AIDC industry. He is also a 2012 winner of the IEC 1906 Award and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Prior to forming High Tech Aid, Steve was vice president, technology for AIM Inc., a trade association for manufacturers, consultants, systems integrators, and users involved in automatic identification and data capture.
Steve has had numerous papers and articles published on technology subjects. He was the chairman of the SC31 committee responsible for creating RFID air interface standards and a co-chairman of the EPCglobal™ Technical Standards Committee. He is a frequent speaker at events around the world.