Craig Steffen

Miami Palmetto High School

Class of 1974

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Craig Steffen - Class of 1974 - Miami Palmetto High School

First Name	Craig
Last Name	Steffen
Graduation Year	Class of 1974
Gender	Male
Current Location	Surprise, AZ
Hometown	Mountain View, CA
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	22 Years in the Navy; Active and Reserves. Started as an Enlisted Aircraft Maintenance Administrationman in Key West, got an Associates from FlaKeys Community College, and got an NROTC Scholarship to CU Boulder. Was a Radar Intercept Officer in F-14s, was one of the guys singing to Kelly McGillis in the bar scene of “Top Gun” then went to Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, then went back to USS Car Vinson and because I could spell “PC” they made me the Management Information Systems Officer managing the use, phaseout and removal of a WANG VS-100 mainframe so I was affectionately known as the “WANG-Head”. Was also 1 of 4 Tactical Action Officers (TAOs) with “Full Weapons Release Authority” and got out in Jan ‘92 and worked for LTV Missiles in Grand Prairie, TX then joined my former thesis advisor at American Airlines Decision Technologies (AADT) doing forecasting models for American and managing projects to deliver flight scheduling systems to AeroMexico, Mexicana, Cathay Pacific and SAS but also helped develop a customer information management system for NationsBank that bought BofA (my current employer where I still do forecasting models but from home. Between then and now I spent 6.5 year on the reserve staff supporting the Admiral aboard USS Nimitz, was promoted to LCDR and CDR sand was XO of Third Fleet’s Unit in Fort Worth then came to Phoenix in 2000 and was a director until 9/11 then the. went back in the Defense business with Northrop and Lockheed on F-35 and joined Fiserv in 2012 modeling call centers then came to BofA in 2005 forecasting armored car moves, deposits and bills nationwide, total cards produced monthly and total remote and banking center deposit and dispense notes nationwide and have been told how amazed they are at the accuracy of my forecasts to which I respond “If I can hit a target going Mach 11, or on the other side of the world or in space, I can do a forecast!!”. I’m also married to a Neuro ICU COV...(read more)