Stephen has been a New Yorker for the past 30 years, and received an AAS degree from New School/Parsons School of Design. For the first 15 years of his design career, Stephen was primarily involved with corporate design projects. When the occasional opportunity to design residential lobbies and hallways was presented to him, he immediately realized how much personal satisfaction he derived from them; in particular, the challenges of presenting design ideas and concepts to the diverse personalities in cooperative and condominium boards.