Experience as a corporate executive:
At The Computer Factory, a New York Stock Exchange company, Steve built Human Resources from conception, and as Director, led the department through the company's expansion from twenty-seven stores to a national presence in seventy-six locations with over twelve hundred employees over a seven year period.  His core functions included staffing, policy creation, benefits management and management training.

Experience as a coach:
For the better part of ten years Steve was a software trainer and consultant for CompUSA. He taught all levels of Microsoft applications, business programs, internet programs and graphics applications in a classroom environment, corporate offices and one-on-one personal training.

Experience working for Dutchess County:
Currently, Steve is Election Supervisor of the Dutchess County Board of Elections under the leadership of Democratic Commissioner Fran Knapp and Deputy Daniel French. In that role he supervises over 500 Democratic Election Inspectors, 25 Election Coordinators, trains over 1,000 Election Inspectors (both Democratic and Republican) and manages 249 election districts in 131 poll site locations throughout Dutchess County.

Experience as a community leader:
Community Service is extremely important to Steve.  Since moving here from Brooklyn more than twenty years ago, he has devoted himself to the improvement and betterment of his adopted city of Beacon. Steve has been City Councilman for ten years in both city wide and ward positions. He has served two terms as Chairman of the Democratic Party.  In 1996 along with Andrew Chiusano, Steve founded and was the first President of the Mt. Beacon Incline Railway Restoration Society (www.inclinerailway.org).  He also organized the Mid-Hudson Progressive Alliance, an activist organization of more than thirty members who meet on the first and third Saturday of every month at the Muddy Cup Coffee Shop.  Steve is honored to have received the American Legion "Americanism Award" and  the NAACP "Outstanding Community Service Award."  Steve designed and maintains the City of Beacon website at www.cityofbeacon.org. One of his goals is to complete a special section on the City's website named Beacon Memorial, devoted to soldiers from Beacon who lost their lives in war.

Education and family:
Steve is married to Mary Danyla Gold, 1974. Mary is the Church Organist for St. Augustine's Catholic Church in Highland, NY, and for eight years was the Music Director, Organist and Lead Singer for St. Joachim's Church in Beacon. She has a JD Degree from Rutgers Law School and is a licensed Attorney in New York State.  "I never argue with her.... When I do she tells me that I have neither a prayer nor a legal leg to stand on." .... steve gold

• BS degree from the University of the State of New York, Regents College,
  Excelsior, Albany, New York (3.80 index)
• Certified Microsoft Office Master with expert level skills in Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint, MS FrontPage, MS Publisher and MS Project.
• New York State Certification as an Education Director
• NYSED Licensed Proprietary School Trade Instructor
• Certified Dutchess County Court Mediator