Summary
Steve Addison is an engineering academic and practitioner with over 30 years of cross-sector experience and eight years in senior roles focused on program and project development. Currently an Associate Professor in Engineering and Technology Management at Washington State University, he pairs hands-on curriculum and lab development with large-scale grant and infrastructure program leadership. Steve has rescued and relaunched graduate programs, designed applied bachelor degrees, and authored major grant proposals including a $2.3B port planning submission that advanced to USDOT review. He blends technical product and web-development skills (authored open-source SCORM tools) with operational leadership—having implemented company-wide collaboration platforms, document controls, and early AI tooling for proposal workflows. Comfortable moving between academia, industry and consulting, he has repeatedly translated employer needs (notably Boeing and regional colleges) into market-aligned programs and workforce pathways. Trained at Cambridge (BA, PhD in Engineering), he combines deep engineering rigor with pragmatic program delivery and a taste for tinkering hinted at by a playful "Script Kiddie!" GitHub bio.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Engineering, PhD, Engineering at University of Cambridge