Steven is deaf web master, maintains and updates his personal web sites. After his brief but interesting assignment with the Complete V.C. Andrews, the un-official web site of late gothic horror novelist, V.C. Andrews, he is studying at Spring Creek Campus, part of Collin County Community College.

Before becoming the web master for Complete V.C. Andrews, Steven worked on web site with similar topic, V.C. Andrews Discussions, where the fans can discuss  V.C. Andrews' works through the mailing list. He also helped the Complete V.C. Andrews creator, Jennifer Wagnon, gathering information to update the comprehensive site.

Steven was born in Waco, Texas, a midsize city in the Hill Country. He and his parents lived in Hewitt, a small town which is about five to ten minutes south of Waco. He was born with Waardenburg Syndrome (sometimes spelled: Wardenburg or Wärdenburg).

Waardenburg Syndrome is a hereditary disorder characterized by facial abnormalities. The inner folds of the eyelids or the tear duct may be displaced, congenital nerve deafness may occur, and often abnormal pigmentation of the iris of the eye, the skin, and/or the hair may be present.

Steven has mild case of the syndrome, in spite of this, he has severe to profound mixed hearing loss. The mixed hearing loss is the combination of bone conduction hearing loss and sensori-neural hearing loss. He wears hearing aids to hear various sounds, however, they don't help him to understand when a person who speak to him without the visual of speaker's lip. He inherited the syndrome from his father's father's mother's father (great-great grandfather), who was a Cajun fisherman with the surname: Duty. Steven is only person in family who is pre-lingual deaf (became deaf before learn any language). His father, his paternal uncle, and one of his paternal cousins are deaf by one ear and but has good to excellent speech and auditory skills.

His deafness was not realized until he was about two months old when Dad tried to wake Steven up by making loud noise one night. His parents debated about sending his son to state school for the deaf after they were advised by Dad's aunt and uncle. They decided not to send him, instead they agreed that his mother will work with Steven. Dad made that clear that he was against communicating through sign language. Momma trained Steven with at least 25 basic words to speak per week when he was two or three years old. He has only caught less than five words. It was frustrating for her. She went against her husband's wish to learn sign language. But Momma use the method called Total Communication which combined the sign language and spoken English at the same time, hoping her son will get them. He actually did. He caught more than twenty words a week after daily session with Momma. Later, he received advanced (and intensive) speech therapy from Momma and then a bunch of intern therapists at Baylor University before he turned six years old.

He started first grade at the regional day school for the deaf in Waco. The school was not mainstreamed (mixed with regular hearing classes with interpreters). As soon as before the program fell apart due to budget and school politics, his parents whisked Steven to Richardson, Texas where Dad found a job as a siding contractor. Steven enrolled a school with a sign language interpreter until Momma can find a school that housed deaf education program. She found one in northwest Richardson, Prairie Creek Elementary. Once he got in as a second grader, Momma was horrified and disapproved that his son learned different sign language. Momma and Steven were only two people in family that knew Signed Exact English (S.E.E.) and that different sign language is not S.E.E. It is called Modified Signed English (M.S.E). It is a method for a singer to sign syllabuses per words, including prefixes, roots, and suffixes. S.E.E. signer signs word to word and most of the time, the hand shape was shaped for initial of the word. S.E.E. and M.S.E. are not languages. They are codes similar to Morse Code. They are codes because they (signs) never change through the course of time. Momma yanked Steven out of the program when the school was dismissed for holidays. The family moved to Mesquite where a deaf education program use S.E.E., is mainstreamed with regular classes, and staffed with sign language interpreters.

Steven was exposed to American Sign Language (A.S.L.) when he was in fifth grade when few students were transferred to Joe Lawrence Elementary from different schools that use A.S.L. as a primary sign language in the classroom.

Steven did not have any difficulty understanding A.S.L., however, he had hard time how to express back in A.S.L. because he still used all English parts of speech.

Steven graduated from North Mesquite High School in 1996 with Advanced High School Program diploma. The diploma includes two years of Latin, Journalism, and Business Computer Applications, and being on yearbook staff.

At the present time, he is a part-time college student at Spring Creek Campus, in Plano. He is working as ride attendant and operator at Six Flags over Texas.  He worked at Runaway Mountain (indoor tubular roller coaster with sudden drops and fast turns) and Shock Wave (double-loop steel roller coaster). He works at Mr. Freeze (linear induction motor [LIM] roller coaster).

His parents, Steve and Sharon, celebrated their 25th anniversary in April 2002. They have been through many ups and downs together, make their bond more stronger. Steven viewed them as best role models for love, marriage, and partnership.

Steve is a trucker for Silver Line Trucking Company, delivering windows to retail stores in the state of New Mexico. Sharon is a computerized forward unit clerk at United States Postal Service (USPS^®) for the large area with zip code starts with 75***. It ranges from Sherman to Paris to Texarkana to Tyler to Palmer to Stephenville to Coppell then back to Sherman. She received more than 200 address change notifications everyday!

He has a young sister, Shannon, who is eighth grader at one of Mesquite's best middle schools. After school, she hangs out with her friends and plays softball. She enjoys playing Nintendo GameCube. She is also learning to use A.S.L. to communicate with Steven.

He resides in Mesquite, Texas, a part of busy metroplex of Dallas and Fort Worth, with his family, two cats (lazy gray Bengal and agile, sleek Bengal), and a dog (a big Rottweiler).