Steve Terry is currently the Director of Standards & Industry Relations at ETC. From 2004-2017, he was the Vice President of Research & Development at ETC, where he led the group that is responsible for global development of new products.

He was appointed a member of National Electrical Code Panel 15 in 1994, and has served as the USITT representative to Code Panel 15 ever since. He is a member of many UL Standards Technical Panels including those for UL9 24—Emergency Lighting and Power Equipment, UL 1008—Transfer Equipment, and UL 8750—LED Equipment for Use in Lighting Products. He has been directly involved in many changes to NEC article 700—Emergency Systems—that have been critical to the changes in emergency control systems required by the move to LED emergency luminaires.

He chaired the USITT Committee that wrote the internationally-accepted DMX512 standard for digital communications in lighting systems in 1986. He was inducted as a Fellow of the USITT in 2006.