Steve S. Saroff- Somewhat of a resume

• Success is built on work that is done well and promptly. Meetings and agendas don't write, create code or sell product. Roll up your sleeves and do whatever work that needs doing, even if that means learning new skills. And don't hire anyone unless you understand how to do at least some of what you are hiring them to do.
• When I was 12 years old I learned morse code and got a ham radio license and stayed awake many nights listening for distant call signs. When I was 20 I built a laser (liquid dye, pulsing) after reading an article in Scientific American.
• I first left home when I was 14.
• Long obsessed with studying, reading, and mountain tops, at 14 I walked alone 500 miles in the Appalachians, then another 500 miles alone when I was 15, and still another 1000 miles alone when I was 16. I hitchhiked West when I was 17.
• When I was 19 years old I spent 45 days walking alone in the Bob Marshall. That set the pace for everything that followed: I've never been intimidated by wilderness, solitude or ambitious plans. I also appreciate the rewards that come from listening and shared stories, appreciating people in ways that someone who has been long alone can.
• I also like writing ficiton, and published a lot of short stories a long time ago. Some in what were once high paying magazines. I like emotional words and what they can do. I also have several books published by Flooding Island Press.
• Even though I left high school early, I got a college degree and then worked for two years as a faculty research engineer for the Oceanography department at Oregon State University. I spent a few months on a ship in the south pacific. Other than those two jobs all my technical jobs where I have worked for other people have sucked. Thus I started building my own companies.
• I have severe dyslexia and have never been able to speeel consistently, and I often stutter. This has been a gift. It has helped keep me from getting involved with pointless enterprises. Here is more about that: my dyslexia.
• I enjoy building things.

I started programming computers as a kid when it was about as financially rewarding as knowing how to fix lawnmowers. I started coding because I loved it. I have used over 30 different computer languages to make money. I also have been paid for designing and building digital electronics, working in chemistry labs, writing fiction, performing music, photography for books and magazines, and teaching.

Before I began starting my own companies I had many jobs, both unskilled and highly skilled. Laborer. Carpenter. Ranch Hand. Oil-field worker. Elementary school Science Teacher at Sussex School in Missoula. Engineer in the Oceanography dept of Oregon State University, where I wrote software and invented and built electronic devices. Systems Analyst and Software Engineer at St. Pat's Hospital in Missoula, where I wrote much of the software used by a large hospital for more than a decade. I also worked as a Consultant for about 20 start-ups.

Two of my own companies, both of which I co-founded, I successfully pitched and sold to public corporations. RemoteScan which had over 20,000 corporate customers worldwide when it was acquired, was a grand slam boot-strapped success. RemoteScan was co-founded and owned 50/50 by my business partner and me, and ran at 85% profit for years. Millions of dollars of profit poured in until the company was acquired for cash by Quest/Dell Inc. This is what is supposed to happen with start-ups. Before that, I founded and was a 50/50 partner of FreeMail, Inc, the first commercially successful web-based email system. FreeMail was used as Kinkos/FedEx’s worldwide Kinkonet system before being acquired by WAM!NET/WorldCom in 1999, just before the criminal fraud and collapse of WorldCom and Enron occurred. I wrote a novel about the criminals that were swirling about me during that time: Paper Targets - Art Can Be Murder

Recently I spent several years coding, developing and deploying a successful algorithmic, real-time, high speed trading system, developed with TradeStation's OOEL Language.

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