About
Stephen
Stephen Reid is a 23 year old graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelors of Science in Management with a Finance Concentration and minor in Computer Science.
As a young entrepreneur, Stephen wrote, arranged, and began his first contract web site and hosting for Wexford Club in 1998 and around the same time began virtual trading of stocks on Yahoo, and made his first own mutual fund investment (with lawn mowing money.)
In 2001, Stephen began working for Elgia Inc. as a PHP developer, working mostly in internal applications including CRM and Event management software. As a small company, he had the chance to manage email, web, database, and phone servers out of the small office. Elgia is a company that provides technical support and training for numerous web conferencing products – given his personable attitude and technical skillset, Stephen found himself able to fill in these roles as well.
Stephen cooperated his studies and job by taking directed studies at Roswell High School through the TAG department where he worked with close friends David, Brian, and Jeff in writing various PHP applications. The first of these applications being a logic intensive script that saved teachers hundreds of hours each semester in planning a rotating seminar schedule to be used with the tag registration system implemented slightly earlier. This group of programmers would go on to write the content management system and design that Roswell High used from early 2005 until 2010.
The decision to attend The Georgia Institute of Technology was not an easy one, as his brother had attended slight rival Auburn University and as such was a fan (Georgia Tech Beat Auburn the last time they played in 2005) but decided to do so considering the academic quality and the potential for the Georgia Tech Water Ski team. After finding that he was most interested in the Georgia Tech Student Foundation Investments Committee, he decided to become a College of Management student and concentrate in Finance.
In the Investments Committee, students analyze and report on both new and current holdings of the foundation, along with educational presentations on new topics. At the time, Exchange Traded Funds were new and a fun and exciting way to pursue indexes, internationals, commodities, and eventually some options exposure and this was the knowledge presentation series Stephen would keep researching.
In 2006, Stephen quickly became the captain of the Georgia Tech Water Ski Club and began sharing some of the presidential duties including adding input to competition, budget use, and major fund raising items. The Water Ski club grew and made over $80k in purchases and established one of its first sponsors. This growth helped the competition team as well, as in 2008 and 2009 the team sent several skiers to the NCWSA All Stars Competition.
Stephen currently works as an independent consultant for technical web solutions and sidelines as an options and stock trader.
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