Steve was hired by OU CIWRO to work as a research scientist with the NSSL Hydro-Meteorology group in January 2014.?He currently works with the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) project and is providing much of the verification and validation for the new MRMS Q3 Dual Pol QPE algorithm as well as continuous evaluation of the various MRMS hydro-meteorological algorithms. Steve also interfaces regularly with National Weather Service and DOD forecasters and management regarding the use of MRMS products in order to find ways to further improve MRMS hydro-meteorological algorithms.