Steve died Dec. 29, 2010, outside Dallas, Texas.
Steve came to Princeton from Munro College in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, and majored in chemical engineering while running on the track team. He still holds school records in the individual 100-meter, 400-meter, 800-meter, and sprint-medley relay. To this day, he is the only Princeton athlete to break the 21-second barrier over 200 meters. After graduation, he returned to Jamaica and narrowly missed joining the 1988 Jamaican Olympic Team.
After that, Steve moved to Texas, where he was swept up in the rapidly developing software industry. He started with Tandy/RadioShack, automating the fulfillment chain before becoming an independent consultant, designing client-server architecture and building data warehouses for clients in banking and credit-rating companies, and for Victoria’s Secret. He was later recruited to help Compaq redesign its communications network and followed Compaq through its merger with Hewlett-Packard.
Steve’s teammates and classmates say that he was a great guy who was universally liked and admired by everyone who knew him. Steve rests in his hometown in Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica, and at the time of his death, was survived by his sisters, Dionne, Melaine, and Shirlene; and his brother, Richard.