Steve Kurti

Chief Innovation Officer at New Ventures Coffee

Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States

About

I am on a mission to inspire and empower people to think more deeply about new ventures--inspiring deeper thinking, collaborative creativity, and side-ways design and implementation. I am looking for like-minded visionaries to work to collaborate and feed the innovation landscape.

Experience

  • Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at New Ventures Coffee
    Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

    New Ventures Coffee is a network of mobile and brick-and-mortar coffee bars. The hub-and-spoke model connects individuals in small- and medium-sized communities to resources and people who can help them develop new ideas into working ventures. Good coffee conveniently located and expertly served, leading you to ideas and resources to change your life.

  • Founder and Chief Innovator at Innovation Academy
    May 2012 - Dec 2022 · 10 yrs 8 mos

    We are creating a new future for STEM education. We are creating PBL pathways using the latest technologies such as 3D printing, embedded processors, and programming. We constantly hear parents tell us that they can't believe how much their kids learned in such a short amount of time... But we are just getting started. Kids are superheroes. They are capable of so much more than we give them credit for. I want to probe the outer limits of what teens can really accomplish. Let's talk more about the possibilities.

  • Adjunct Professor at Victor Valley College
    Jul 2020 - Dec 2020 · 6 mos

    Introduction to JavaScript and web coding. Understanding the basics of coding for interactive web applications. Helping students identify strengths and future goals in technology.

  • Associate Professor at Loma Linda University
    Aug 2008 - Dec 2014 · 6 yrs 5 mos

    Dental Research. Biomedical research. Product development and intellectual property. As a physicist in a biomedical environment, I became aware of the major challenges facing medicine and dentistry. I see many possibilities on the fringes of the medical consciousness that are years from practical use--not because they aren't currently viable solutions but rather because few within the medical field are willing to link arms with physicists and engineers to probe the boundaries of the possible. I loved learning about histology, biofilms, biochemistry, and a host of other biological topics and am quite convinced that the frontiers of science in the coming years will be on the borders between biomedical technology and applied physics and engineering.

  • Research Physicist at NAVAIR
    Feb 2005 - Jun 2009 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    Laser research and development. High energy fiber lasers, other high energy waveguide lasers, beam combining techniques, atmospheric transmission. Program management, project planning, proposal writing, proposal evaluation and selection, steering committees, and SBIR topic submissions.