Stephen M. Hollister

SNAME, IEEE (Life Member), ACM

Stephen M. Hollister has two masters degrees from the University of Michigan in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME) and Computer, Information, and Control Engineering (CICE). He also obtained a Professional Engineering license. He started New Wave Systems, Inc. in 1985 to write CAD/CAM/CAE software for naval architecture, ship construction, and general engineering. He also wrote an entire general-purpose NURB curve and surface design program - Pilot3D. See his top-searched white paper The Dirty Little Secrets of NURBS. He taught college math and computer science full time in the 1980s during the height of Turbo Pascal.

Stephen has written over a million lines of code over fifty years spanning mainframes, minicomputers, workstations, PCs in DOS and Windows, and now web programming. He has written in many programming languages, including FORTRAN, Pascal, Algol, various assembly languages, C, C++, Java, and now the web with HTML, CSS, JS, and more. Each time technology changed, he had to rewrite code and see other valuable code lost because the cost of conversion was too great.

Stephen wrote and presented many peer-reviewed technical papers covering engineering design, data unification, and code integration throughout the US and Europe.

Stephen C. Poplaski

PhD, CPA, CFP®

Stephen C. Poplaski is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Financial Planner™ Practitioner (CFP®) who has worked at Lighthouse Financial Management, LLC, since its starting date in January 2004. Stephen’s focus is individual tax planning and preparation along with consulting for clients who own business entities.

Stephen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance, and a Ph.D. in Personal Finance.

In addition, Stephen was an Associate Professor in Finance at Johnson & Wales University who taught courses in personal financial planning, corporate analysis and valuation, individual income tax, and applied behavioral finance. He also serves as a member of the Kansas State University's National Advisory Board for undergraduate and graduate degree programs in financial planning and is a peer reviewer for the "Journal of Financial Planning."

Marjorie F. Hollister

Principal Unix SysAdmin

Marjorie F. Hollister achieved the top "Principal" level in a global insurance company as a Unix SysAdmin and project leader. She has decades of experience dealing with changing technology from IBM mainframes to Digital Equipment Corporation VMS on the VAX 11/780 to various Unix and HP Itanium systems to the implementation of a Windows and web driven world-wide corporate structure.

Marjorie is an expert in the integration of enterprise data in Oracle and other databases across both development and production systems. This includes tying modern solutions to legacy systems and a 24/7 response to hardware, software, backup, disaster recovery, and security issues. She is very skilled at getting different departments, technologies, and people to work together. She also has a career of dealing with women's issues in corporate IT.