Nationality American Name Stephen Shooster | Role Author Parents Herman Shooster | |
Occupation Painter, Author, and Businessman Relatives Frank Shooster (brother) Website Shoosty Fine Art Gallery Alma mater University of Florida College of the Arts Books The Horse Adjutant: A Boy's Life in the Holocaust | ||
Stephen Shooster is an American business executive, painter, and author.
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Early life
Stephen Shooster graduated from the University of Florida College of the Arts in 1982.
Business career
In the 1990s Shooster was President and Chief Information Officer of Communications Service Center, a call center company founded in 1974 under the name of the Ding-A-Ling Answering Service. While working for the company Shooster invented and patented the world's first "Web Call Center", a service with clients that included Time Warner, the Florida Marlins baseball club and Bausch & Lomb. Shooster then became the President of Global Response, an international call center company founded by his father. As Co-CEO, Chief Technology Officer, and co-owner of the company, Shooster has worked with clients including The Art Institute of Chicago, National Geographic, Charming Shoppes, Mead Paper, S.E. Toyota, Ally Financial, Mindware Studios, Think Geek, the Museum of Modern Art, as well as several major museums, fashion designers, and fashion retailers.
Artistic career
He is a painter, working under the artist's name of "Shoosty", whose works are exhibited at Shoosty Fine Art gallery in Margate, Florida. His work has been featured in the Marquis Who's Who in American Art and The Miami Herald.
The Horse Adjutant
Then in 2011 Shooster self-published the book The Horse Adjutant: A Boy's Life in the Holocaust, the story of Leon Schagrin's survival of Nazi death camps during the Second World War. The book led to a national news when it was discovered that Schagrin's first cousin and only other member of his family to survive the Holocaust, Leo Adler, had spent nearly seven decades searching for Schagrin—a search that ended with Adler reading Schagrin's book and realizing he was the same survivor Adler had been looking for his entire life.