Tom Steele
Program Director IT Faculty at Madison College
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolTom Steele is a Program Director and IT faculty member at Madison College with nine years of post-education professional experience and a long engineering career that stretches back to software architecture and senior engineering roles. He transitioned from 15 years in industry—serving as Software Architect at Three Rivers Technologies and Senior Engineer at National Decision Support Company—into higher education, where he now shapes IT curricula and mentors the next generation of technologists. With an MS in Industrial Engineering and a BS in Electrical Engineering, he combines systems thinking and hands-on engineering rigor to align academic programs with real-world technical needs. Known for bridging practical software architecture experience with pedagogy, he emphasizes applied learning and workforce readiness. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Tom brings a practitioner’s perspective to academia, maintaining strong ties to industry practices and tools. He often leverages his deep systems background to help students tackle complex, multidisciplinary projects that mirror professional engineering challenges.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleMS, Industrial Engineering, MS, Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (40)
rxpy9
medical9
python8
api8
authentication8
reactive-extensions8
lambda-functions8
reactive8
reactivex7
aws-fargate7
aws-appsync7
aws-lambda7
storage7
aws7
hipaa7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
2018-fall-mjs-th/quiz-editor
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:64 commits, 43 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year
2022-spring-adv-fe-mowe/tca-zombie-dice
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:223 commits, 189 pushes, 7 branches in 10 months
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