Steve Quenette has extensive technical and practical experience in the development, evaluation and testing of advanced computing software. In addition to VPAC he has worked for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation's (DSTO) Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory (AMRL) involved in developing a range of simulation software within a real time flight training environment, and the California Institute for Technology\'s (Caltech) Center for Advanced Computation Research (CACR) to facilitate the development of interoperable geophysics codes. He and has been involved in a large number of automotive, aerospace and geoscience projects. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Science) and Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems) from RMIT.