Stephen Severino
President & Founder
of Rhino Software
The President
and Chief Software Architect of Rhino
Software
is Stephen Severino. Steve founded the company in January
1995.
As company President, Steve is in charge of conceptualizing and deciding what
software products and services our company will develop and offer to the public.
As Chief Software Architect, Steve serves as the lead designer and programmer of all the software that we
create and publish. He's best known to our commercial software customers as the
designer of Rhino Baseball, our
popular and well-respected fantasy baseball software and its associated
statistical service. Steve has also designed
the
Rhino Viewer, Rhino Hockey
(our upcoming fantasy hockey software), and is currently developing the rules
and software for Sword of Severnia, a new
computer-moderated tabletop wargame for miniature gamers.
Education & Work Experience
Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from
Penn State University, where he won the
President's Freshman Award for academic excellence and is a member of the Golden
Key Honor Society.
He has an
extensive background in developing software applications in the fields of statistical analysis, forecasting, inventory control, materials
planning and replenishment, and factory order scheduling. Steve has designed and
programmed software for both mainframe and desktop systems in over 10 different programming languages.
He has also taught IMS/DL1 database programming, and has designed several web sites
(including this
one).
Steve's current
technical work involves development of desktop and client/server software using
PowerBuilder,
an object-oriented 4GL programming language. He has worked with PowerBuilder
and
Sybase's SQL Anywhere
relational database management system since 1995. Steve also
dabbles in the PHP scripting language and MySQL
relational database for web development projects. Most of Rhino Software's graphics are also created by Steve
using Jasc's
PaintShop Pro and
Animation Shop
programs.
Fantasy Sports Background
Steve is also a fantasy sports expert, having founded, managed, and played in
various fantasy baseball, football, and hockey leagues since the late 1980's. He
has spent countless years refining formulas & techniques for projecting
baseball player statistics. Many of his original and innovative ideas in the field of fantasy
baseball can be found in the Rhino Fantasy Baseball Handbook,
which explains the proportional rotisserie scoring system, fielding ratio statistic,
regular season salary cap, salary arbitration process, and rotisserie playoff system among
other things.
This is Steve's 21st consecutive season managing a team and
running HARL (Harrisburg Area Rotisserie League), a highly competitive 6x6, NL-only,
rotisserie ultra league which he founded in 1987. In 2003, Steve became a 6-time HARL champion, setting a
league record by winning championships in 3 consecutive seasons. He also
has several fantasy football titles to his credit, and won the prestigious PROFL
Experts league championship in hockey in 2002, besting hockey experts from
across the fantasy sports industry.
Blog & Personal Info
Steve writes a public blog called
Six Sided Rhinoceros,
where he shares his views, opinions, and insights on an eclectic mix of fun
topics that interest him including fantasy baseball, board games, card games,
wargames, miniatures and modeling, video games, and software development.
Steve lives in central Pennsylvania with his lovely wife, Anna, and their 2
cats (Sammy & Jinx). In addition to his great love of sports and computers, Steve is also
a longtime rock drummer, and enjoys playing games of all sorts (board games,
tabletop wargames, X-Box, etc.). He also
collects and paints miniature figures & soldiers for fantasy and historical wargames, and is a member of
HMGS
East (Historical Miniatures Gaming
Society).
If you have any questions for Steve about our software products or services,
please feel free to
email him.
