After Steve received his Master's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1972, he began his career by working in the social work and educational industries.  He has taught numerous classes at the undergraduate level, as an Adjunct Professor at the graduate school level, and in the private sector.  Retreats, workshops and formal classroom settings where courses in inter-personal skills have been instructed by Steve, starting in the mid 70's.  In 1976, he got his real estate license and has been active as owner/broker of his own firm for over 12 years.  During his real estate career, Steve has been involved with residential, multi-family, and commercial sales, as well as property management, syndication of real estate partnerships and land development. 

Steve and his wife, Cheryl have been active real estate investors with ownership of over 25 residential properties. He has also been involved over the years in the home construction industry and personally built 19 custom and spec homes. In 1984 Steve went to work for a Mortgage Banking firm as a loan officer, then was hired in 1986 as the General Manager of one of the first mortgage brokerage firms in the State of Washington. Late in 1987 Steve opened his own mortgage firm and within a short time had three branch offices running in N.W. Washington. 

Today, Steve is still managing both his real estate firm and his mortgage brokerage company as owner/ designated broker of each firm. He continues his activities both listing and selling real estate and providing home loans. In late 2009 Steve was hired as Sales Manager of the BPO Automation Group and spends a part of each day talking with real estate agents across the nation about using BPO automation and auto-accept software to increase the quantity of BPO orders and how to significantly decrease the processing time of each order. Over the years, Steve has conducted numerous financing classes for real estate agents and brings his wealth of personal experience and knowledge to the classroom.