Steve began his EMS career with the Bellmore-Merrick Volunteer Ambulance Corps. on Long Island in 1997. He attended the Stony Brook University Paramedic Program in 2001 and spent 10 years working in the New York City 9-1-1 System before moving to the Capital Region. He earned a bachelor's degree in emergency management from Empire State University in 2012. From 2015- 2021 he served as the Chief of Operations for Greene County Paramedics, a rural countywide ALS first response agency, and received the 2021 Harriet C. Weber Leadership Award from the Hudson-Mohawk Regional EMS Council. Steve currently serves as the Bureau Chief for the Bureau of EMS Emergency Management with the New York State Division of EMS.