Steve Hill

Shelley and I were married in January 1976 (46 years and counting) and in addition to 6 children, we have 6 grandchildren.

You can find me an Facebook - but i don't do much there. For business - I am more active on LinkedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=5776126&trk=tab_pro

I joined the Navy in August 1968 and after my honorable discharge in 1972, I moved to Los Angeles where I began a career in the lumber industry.

In 1975 I obtained a Commercial Helicopter License and was about to move to Iran to fly for Bell Helicopter in the oil fields, but Shelley came along and I got married instead. Shelley may have saved my life as I would have been in Iran during the Islamic Revolution that was very unfriendly to "infidels."

With the closed door to commercial flying, I went back to lumber, starting my own company - Direct Lumber Co. Inc. Then with the California housing recession, I decided to sell out and move into the Technology business, starting my own Utah based firm - MindShare Associates. This was a great adventure that led to my selling once again and taking position with a client in Michigan, which in turn led to a Regional VP position with Computer Associates, then off to startup Recourse Technologies, which was sold to Symantec Corp, where I worked for 11 years before bouncing to other CyberSecurity firms including RSA, Verizon Business Services, and IBM.

Over the years I have always felt bad about not completing a college degree, so in 2005 I graduated from Colorado Tech - Summa Cum Laude - with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration... This whet my appetite for learning and so I moved on to Walsh College's NSA Center of Academic Excellence where I received an MBA - Information Assurance and also gained my CISSP [Certified Information Systems Security Professional]... I am also a three-time President of the ISSA - the world voice of information security - http://www.issa-motorcity.org/currentbod.htm - and travel extensively to give security briefings. Whew!

Oh and along the way - I set a goal to play golf in all 50 states, which I completed Labor Day 2004 in Anchorage. Lots of fun since High School... :-D