Terry D. Stevens retired as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force with 35 years active service -- including 13 years enlisted. He served in avionics, administration, postal, personnel, manpower, social actions and Security Police and command positions. He was a major command-level senior personnel staff officer and director and served over 7 years at the Air Force Personnel Center.

Following retirement from active duty, he temporarily returned to AETC as the Mentor Program Manager to develop the first command-wide mentoring program in the Air Force. He was a columnist with the Air Force Times for some 10 years before returning to the civilian sector with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), as a Business Processing Redesign Team Lead. He has also worked as an independent contractor in Human Resources with dNOVUS at San Antonio and with SAIC/IBM in the area of Personnel Services Delivery Transformation.