Stephen has been a member of the Autodesk Developer Technical Services (DevTech) team since 2000, first as a support engineer and then as manager of the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) team. In those roles, his responsibilities included support for the AutoCAD® APIs, including ObjectARX® and AutoCAD® .NET, as well as AutoCAD OEM and RealDWG™ technologies. Currently, he manages the Developer Technical Services Team in the Americas and serves as Workgroup Lead, working closely with the AutoCAD engineering team on future improvements in the AutoCAD APIs. Stephen started his career as a scientist, and has a Ph.D. in Atomic and Laser Physics from the University of Oxford.