Steve Barton is not a professional politician, and is not a professional educator; his background is as an engineer/scientist, lawyer, and he has a doctor of medicine degree. He has attended many colleges and universities, including University of California, Berkeley, Brigham Young University, St Georges University (Grenada, West Indies), University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak Community College, Pueblo Community College, Santa Clara University, Central Arizona College, and more.

Steve’s first career was as a computer architect, logic, and circuit design engineer at Intel and Ford Microelectronics. He originated the Intel 8096 processor family internal architecture and instruction set and its Intel 8061/Ford EEC-IV variation. These sold well—being used in most Ford vehicles built from 1982-2002, many GM dynamic brake modules, millions of Western Digital and Seagate hard drives of the mid 80s through the early 1990s, and many other applications—but Steve got only a salary with no royalty.

Steve’s second career is as a patent attorney, where he has prepared and prosecuted patent application in a wide range of technologies ranging from computer architecture and electronic circuit design to biomedical engineering and medical imaging. He has represented several major universities as well as large and small companies to the patent office. He is still active in this field.

In both careers, Steve used his extensive background in science, engineering, and mathematics. In the second career, he made use of his background in biology and medicine although he never practiced medicine.

Steve has served in appointed positions on other Colorado state boards.