"This award is in recognition of Stephen's service to RIT. His diligent effort and generosity have contributed significantly to the growth of the university. This award is meant to honor those efforts and to express our appreciation for his dedication."

Stephen Schultz is the co-founder of Pictometry and serves as Pictometry's Chief Technical Officer. Schultz designed and developed the underlying technology for Pictometry's patented systems, including the flight planning, field capture, and end user software -- Electronic Field Study™, as well as designing and refining the products offered to the customer. As Employee #1 at Pictometry, he filled many roles in addition to engineering and technology and has been a member of Pictometry's Board of Directors since 1998. His leadership has helped grow the company to over 250 employees with 56 aircraft that have captured over 140,000,000 images in the United States and world wide.

Mr. Schultz's career in software engineering and design began in 1981 and then shifted to include imaging science when he went to work for the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1985. While there, he developed new technologies for use in a wide range of fields including environmental, military, medical, and earth analysis. He also was responsible for expanding the Center's computing infrastructure from two individual mini-computers to a network of over 100 workstations and servers.

Mr. Schultz earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Rochester Institute of Technology and completed most of the coursework and research for a master's degree in computational imaging but left to found Pictometry before completing his thesis. While working at the center, Mr. Schultz also taught computer programming to Computational Imaging and Imaging Science majors as an adjunct professor. In 2007, he was honored by RIT with the Distinguished Alumni Award for the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing & Information Sciences.

During his student and staff career at RIT, Mr. Schultz participated in all levels of student and government including: Student Directorate, where he working with a few other student leaders he rewrote their constitution to create the Student Government in place today; Institute Council, first as a student and later as a staff member; the Ombudsman Advisory Committee, where he helped design the program and helped select the first RIT Ombudsman; Campus Safety Advisor, where he was part of the selection committee for the director and new officers as well as on committees to review new policies; Reporter Magazine, where he was News Editor, Sports Editor, and Editor-in-Chief; and RIT Athletics, where he founded the Corner Crew, made significant contributions to elevate the women's soccer and hockey programs, created a matching fund for the Corner Crew Challenge to raise over $32,000 towards construction of new locker rooms, and most recently, pledged $1,000,000 towards the construction of a new ice arena.