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.

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@Drinks" in APA 8-Ball. My 9-Ball team that I captained for nearly 3 years is no longer playing.
* (NEW!) iPhone/iPod Touch Application Development - I've written an app that was submitted to 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: I was the captain of my steel-tip dart team, the "Blind Squirrels". The team is currently taking a couple of seasons off, but we last played out of the Main Street Liquid Company, in old downtown Richardson, Texas. I also do custom software design on contract, act as webmaster for a number of websites; Drew Marine, O'Riley's Billiards, Drink's Saloon, McQuade Contracting, and formerly Scooter's; and I help out with the DDA website. I used to own my own home in Rowlett, Texas, where I enjoyed spending time in my yard (when I had the time!) and working on my computers. I sold the house in September of 2006 and now live in an apartment near work (close enough to walk!)

I also played in an in-house 8-Ball Billiards league at Sharky's on Greenville avenue (@Pineland). This was every Wednesday night, starting at 8pm, til around 10pm. It's was a LOT of fun. During the Spring Season 2004, my team finished in 1st place, and I won the men's 8-ball singles title, with a record of 17-6. In the late Spring of 2004, I joined an APA (American Pool Players Assocation) team, out of Drink's Saloon, "Mixed Drinks". This proved to be loads of fun. On Monday evenings, I was the captain of an APA 9-Ball Team called "Who's Next?"; playing out of Drinks. We qualified for our 3rd-in-a-row higher level (City) tournament and last played in the Spring 2007 session.

I also enjoy playing poker (Texas Hold'em of course), and have played in the Amateur Poker League (APL). They have poker sessions all over town, but I preferred the Saturday evening 7pm session at Sharky's on Greenville Avenue. I followed that up by either hanging at Sharky's and playing pool with friends, or heading up to Drinks Saloon for a great evening with friends there. (As of mid-March, 2005, the APL sessions at Sharky's are no longer going on, so my poker playing now consists of an occasional "home" game with friends every so often...)

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...).