Steve Schneider, PE

Senior Associate,
Director of Fire Protection/Life Safety

San Francisco

Steve, Senior Associate, contributes his expertise as a fire protection and life safety engineer to a wide range of professional services. He is based in the West region and interfaces with all Marx|Okubo offices nationwide.

Steve has extensive experience in property risk management and life safety. He began his engineering career working with the Department of Energy laboratories in South Carolina and New York where he assessed building code conformance and developed facility-specific fire protection and life safety programs. Most recently, Steve was a Highly Protected Risk (HPR) Property Underwriter for Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty where he was responsible for analyzing hazards to real property and business interruption from an insurance perspective

Steve has a bachelor’s degree in fire protection engineering from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in engineering and management systems from Union College – New York. He is a licensed fire protection engineer in California, New York, Colorado and Washington and a principal on the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee for Building Construction (BLD-BLC).