Steven E. Wilde

I grew up in Salt Lake City and graduated from the University of Utah in Civil Engineering. My life revolves around my family and most of my spare time is spent with them. Together we enjoy camping, hiking, travel and get-togethers with friends and extended family. In my quiet time, I enjoy gardening, family history, emergency preparedness, home remodeling, reading and now, writing.

I’ve traveled to six continents, either for pleasure or business. I survived two floods in Rio de Janeiro and a drenching rain forest in Costa Rica. I’ve been stung by a Ray on a California beach, I managed the construction of a graphite composite America’s Cup race boat and watched it compete and win off the coast of San Diego. I managed the construction of a graphite composite prototype of the V-22 Tiltrotor aircraft. I managed the construction of five large steel wind turbines, which were installed in Washington, Wyoming and California. I managed and coached project managers in the U.S. and Canada and helped several of them earn their Project Management Professional certification.

Like many people, I had a story in me that wanted to be told, but life got in the way of actually writing the story until recently. My career as an engineer and project manager has led me through multiple industries and specialties, including electric utilities, nuclear power plant construction, water management, global mining and aerospace. Each of those experiences contributed to the broad perspective needed and the interest to research and write about the potential effects of global thermonuclear war on the infrastructure, on people and on the world, itself.