Stephen is a staff veterinary technologist from Southern California. He graduated with is Associate of Applied Science degree. He first became interested in veterinary medicine in high school when he volunteered at the horse veterinary hospital for 4 years. He started his career as a Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT) in emergency medicine. A vet tech position opened up at the research field. He accepted the position as a Registered Laboratory Animal Technologist. He learned so much about biomedical research, and he know lab animal science would be his professional home. In addition to his ranch, his family has dogs, cats, horses and goats.