My Bio

Name: Stephen L. Reid
Age: 50
Birthday: May 18, 1960
Status: Very Happily Married and Busy with new home.


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Education: B.S in Computer Science, '83, Washington State University

High School: Wilbur High School, Wilbur, Washington, graduated in 1978. Member of Honor Society.

University: Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, graduated in Jan. 1983 with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science.

Employment: Software Designer, Texas Instruments Incorporated, since 1982. Recent work assignments are in communications / link software development on the Macintosh, developing new and better software to facilitate communications between the Macintosh and the TI Educational Technology product line (TI-92Plus, TI-89, TI-83Plus, etc. educational graphing calculators). Additionally, I have been working on other USB-related projects at work, primarily in the area of low-level implementation of USB/OTG at the hardware and just above hardware layers for our latest product, the TI-nspire. In the past, I have worked on products such as the TI-74 Basicalc, TI-95 Procalc, Ready Reference Spell Checker products, and developed the firmware and PC software for the TI PC-Interface for the TI-74/TI-95s. I am also the Technical Lead, TI Connect for OS X (Macintosh software) and am the lead developer of that application package, as well as the BA II Plus Financial calculator app for the iPhone (available in the app store). I do my own iPhone development on the side as well; see the iSlideRule app! (in iTunes).

Current Hobbies:
* Jet boats
* Darts (steel-tip, I was the Tuesday and Wednesday Night Director and Vanguard/Gemini Director for the Dallas Darts Association), through June of 2002. and am currently the DDA Editor of Publications. I was also the Vice-President of the DDA until July of 2004.
* Billiards. I play on Wednesdays in the Dallas APA. I have one team that I play on; "Dammit Jim" in APA 8-Ball. My 9-Ball team that I captained for nearly 3 years is no longer playing.
* iPhone/iPod Touch Application Development - I've written an app that is available in the iTunes app store - "iSlideRule".

I'm also active in Web-page design and layout and graphic design, and am a member of the HTML Writers Guild. I also provide contract software development resources to a limited client base. Additionally, I am an Endowment Life Member of the National Rifle Association.

Other activities: My wife and I purchased a home here in the Whispering Hills neighborhood of Dallas, in June 2009 and are in the midst of remodeling. So far, we've got the kitchen, office, living room, dining room, and master bedroom pretty much done. Several rooms yet to go...

Growing up: I grew up in a small town (Wilbur) in Washington state. I did a variety of things while I was growing up; from running newspaper routes (3 of the 4 routes in town at one time), to running combine during the annual wheat harvest, to working as a greenskeeper at the local semi-private golf course. I graduated from Wilbur High School in 1978, and began attending WSU that fall. I attended the Wilbur school system from kindergarten (starting in 1965) to graduation in 1978, and WSU from fall 1978 to mid-term graduation in January of 1983. During college, I continued the jobs mentioned previously until 1981. In 1981, I was a summer-hire / Geotechnical assistant at Grand Coulee Dam, working for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. My job there was interesting; collecting data from monitoring stations, and entering the data into the main computer system for analysis. In addition, I got to write/develop some real-time data collection software and data plotting software on an HP 9375 (I think that was the model... it's been a few years...).