Stephen designed and built exhibits for the Capital Children’s Museum in the 1970s, ran the AmiEXPO trade shows for the Commodore Amiga in the 1980s, and began teaching at Rochester Institute of Technology in the 1990s. Today, he serves as Director of Open@RIT, a Key Research Center and Open Programs Office at RIT; runs FOSS@MAGIC, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive Free and Open Source Software University programs. He co-authored the original proposal for the Game Design and Development Degrees at The Rochester Institute of Technology and teaches Video Game Design and Production as a Professor in the School of Interactive Games and Media at Rochester Institute of Technology. He’s been a scholar-in-residence at The Strong National Museum of Play for fourteen years where he’s participated in the design of exhibits on the History of Video Games, Science Fiction Toys and Games and the new exhibits opening next year in the museum’s upcoming expansion.

He’s been part of the development team for a number of “serious games” in the fields of education, tourism and mental and behavioral health. Most recently he was a producer of “The Original Mobile Games” a collection of physical hand-held games from the 1850s to the 1950s released on iOS, Android and the Switch.