About the author
Steven Reise was born on September 23, 1957, to the parents of Ralph & Charline Resetarits. (Steve's parents legally changed the last name of themselves, Steve, and Steve's older brother, Michael, to "Reise" on October 10, 1958, one year and seventeen days after Steven was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
Steven was an accomplished student and athlete.
In little league baseball, Steven once struck out 17 batters in a 7-inning game, and in another, pitched a two-hit shutout for his first-place team.
As a freshman in high school, Steven set several rebounding records, once recording 17 rebounds in one game.
Steven was named Captain by the Varsity football team at Mehlville Senior High School (St. Louis County) his Senior year and was named 1st Team All-Conference and Honorable Mention All-District as an Outside Linebacker.
Steven attended Washington Universtiy in St. Louis and received a BSBA in Business Administration and a BSME in Mechanical Engineering May 1980 and May 1982, respectively.
Steven received his MBA (Master of Business Administration) from Maryville College (now University) in 1990, receiving tuition reimbursement from former employer Chrysler Motors and McDonnell Aircraft Company.
Steven worked part-time and summers at the tool & die company, Colonial Engineering & Tool Company his father, Ralph managed for twenty-five years, attaining the union job description of Aprentice Tool & Diemaker.
In June 1974, the Monday following his sophomore year of high school, Steve suffered a serious industrial accident at his father's employer, Colonial Engineering & Tool, requiring a skin graft and leaving a noticeable scar on his right hand which remains to this day (although healed so as not as evident as it was for many years).
Steven's mother, Charline, was employed as the secretary to the president of the candy maker, Sunmark Inc. (they make "Sweet Tarts"), which wa later bought by Nestle and Charline retired as a Nestle retiree pensioner.
During his college years, Steven worked at the Amoco Oil (now British Petroleum--BP) Refinery in Wood River, IL and General Electric (St. Louis) in the capacity as an engineer.
During his career as vaious functions as an engineer, Steven was employed (again) at Amoco Oil Refinery (BP) in Whiting, Indiana, while living on the Near North Side of Chicago taking Lake Shore Drive to and from the Amoco Oil Refinery.
Steven was employed a a sales engineer for Borg-Warner (LaGrange, IL--Chicagoland).
Steven also worked for Chrysler Motors as a Body Shop Tooling Engineer (Fenton, MO) for the various Chrysler minivans, the production of which saved Chrysler Motors from bankruptcy and going out of business.
Steven worked as a design engineer for McDonnell Aircraft, on the F-15 Eagle, F-18 Hornet, and AV8B Harrier. Steven also had a Top-Secret Clearance for the "black hole" fighter aircraft A-12 Avenger, which was eventually cancelled after Reise had transferred to another McDonnell Douglas division which built flight simulators for other companies' fighter aircraft, including the Grumman Northrup F-14 Tomcat which Tom Cruise flew in the original Top Gun film.
Mr. Reise also worked for Saudi Aramco (the world's largest oil company) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia as a Technical Advisor/Consultant in 1992-1993.
SPR set foot in some 28 countries, including Russia (Moscow & Saratov)
Steven Reise purchased a 28-acre country estate outside Potosi, MO (Washington County) in 1995.
In April 1997 an individual tortured and murdered Steve's beagle, "Phantom", a Korean and Vietnam war jet built by McDonnell Douglas.
On September 11, 1998, Mr. Reise was sent to a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane (NON-VIOLENT OFFENDER) designated NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF MENTAL ILLNESS.
Three years later to the day, September 11, 2001, mainly Saudi Arabians, trained on simulators, hijacked 3 jets known as Sept. 11-9/11.
5 years in psychiatric hospital
Read "About The Author" in "Here Is A Steve"