Steve started Crowd Resources Consulting in 2019 to provide non-NASA related organizations with resources for leveraging the crowd-based expertise and solutions required to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving global economy. Steve also currently serves as the Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation, which is working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. Steve has worked with various projects and organizations over the past 6 years to develop and execute over 100 different challenges. He speaks regularly about NASA’s work in crowd-based challenges and the future of work both publicly and internally to the NASA workforce to promote the use of open innovation tools. Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for 30 years. Prior to his current roles, Steve worked in mission control, flight software development for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, command and control systems development for the X-38, and led the Command, Control, Communications, & Information architecture definition for the Constellation Program.