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Mr. Curtis brings 25 years of aerospace experience to MicroSat Systems as the Enterprise Engineer and is responsible for engineering, manufacturing. He also manages the TacSat-2 spacecraft program for MSI. Mr. Curtis joined MSI in 2000 as the Systems Engineering Manager, previously at Lockheed Martin Astronautics, he served as the Chief Systems Engineer on Mars Surveyor ’03/05 Lander’s and Europa Orbiter Propulsion Subsystem contracts. He also conducted the Mars Polar Lander Failure Investigation as the Technical Lead for Lockheed Martin, in collaboration with the Independent Review Board appointed by NASA.Preceding this management experience, Mr. Curtis was the System Design Lead and Flight Operations Spacecraft Engineer for Mars Polar Lander. Mars Global Surveyor Program also benefited from his experience during his tenure as the System Design Lead during the design phase. On the Magellan program Mr. Curtis was an Attitude Control Engineer from integration and test through mission operations and completed the mission as the Systems Lead of the aerobraking project for which he received the NASA Public Service Medal. Early in his career he was a DoD Sounding Rocket Project Engineer for Space Data Corporation. Mr. Curtis has a B.S. and M.S. of Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University. His career accomplishments include integral participation in the entire life cycle of high reliability, autonomous, interplanetary spacecraft and high risk, low-cost sounding rocket programs. His expertise in Systems Engineering has been called upon as a Review Board Member for both civilian and commercial spacecraft, as an instructor of Systems Engineering, a media representative, and as the author of technical paper | 