Before joining USF Health, Steve served as the executive director of Financial Planning at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. In that role, he oversaw strategic financial planning, analysis, and budgeting for the $1.7 billion academic medical center. Before going to Mississippi, he was the assistant dean for Medical School Finances at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Steve also has held finance leadership roles at the University of Florida College of Medicine and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

He is a Certified Management Accountant and served as president of the Central Florida Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants. He earned his undergraduate degree in economics at Davidson College and his MBA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.