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John Roth
Mr. Roth joined MicroSat Systems in January of 2002 and was named President in September of that year. He has more than 25 years experience in the aerospace industry and has demonstrated success in business acquisition and organizational leadership. Mr. Roth currently serves on the board of directors for the Colorado Space Business Roundtable and is on the Advisory Board of the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. Prior to joining MSI, Mr. Roth was Vice President of the Electronic Combat Business Unit for Litton Advanced Systems, a $200M division of Litton Industries, a Fortune 500 company. Programs under his leadership included major defense systems such as the Joint Strike Fighter Electronic Warfare suite, ICAP III electronic warfare suite for the Navy E-2C carrier aircraft, the Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare System (AIEWS) for Navy surface ships, as well as classified satellite payloads for U.S. military satellite prime contractors. Prior to his position as Vice President, Mr. Roth was the Director of Engineering for Litton Advanced Systems with responsibility over all engineering personnel and laboratories. Before joining Litton, Mr. Roth served as Director of Colorado Springs Operations for Lockheed Martin Electronic Defense Systems which provided direct support to the Air Force Space Command’s Space Warfare Center at Schriever Air Force Ba. Mr. Roth has also held positions at Litton Amecom as Director of Advanced Programs, at HRB-Singer as Electronic Warfare Programs Manager and at Hughes Aircraft as Manager of the Processor Architecture group. Mr. Roth holds an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois. He has also attended the Harvard Business School Executive Education program for Management and Leadership, and the Wharton Business School Executive Education Program for Finance. |
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Brad Schneider
Mr. Schneider has been Vice President of Business Operations at MicroSat Systems since its inception. He has more than 25 years experience in the aerospace industry in corporate finance and strategic marketing. Mr. Schneider was instrumental during the incorporation of the Company in 2001 and the development of the Company’s business operations infrastructure. He has demonstrated sound financial management and leadership by consistent achievement of annual corporate growth objectives. Prior to joining MSI, Mr. Schneider spent 14 years with the Lockheed Martin Corporation and four years with Raytheon. At Lockheed Martin, he provided Business Management leadership for numerous research/development and satellite programs including NASA and Department of Defense (DoD) missions. He was instrumental in increasing Lockheed’s business base by approximately $500 million over a five year period with the successful award of five interplanetary satellite missions. Mr. Schneider successfully led numerous corporate "must-win" procurement opportunities and achieved annual long-range orders, sales and profit goals in accordance with corporate requirements, focusing on maximizing stockholder equity. He is the recipient of numerous corporate and customer awards in recognition for leadership and teamwork. At Raytheon, he was responsible for budgeting and forecasting for a major United States Navy production program. Mr. Schneider received a B.S. degree in Finance and Accounting from Brigham Young University. |
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Jeff Summers
Mr. Summers has been with MicroSat Systems since its inception and performed as the Program Manager/System Engineer for the TechSat 21 and TacSat-2 programs. Mr. Summers joined ITN Energy Systems in November 1995 as the Manager of Aerospace Engineering and Product Development. He grew this division from two engineers to a technical team of 20, and over $60 million of contract orders. In 2000 he was instrumental in spinning off MicroSat Systems which successfully bid and won the TechSat 21 procurement for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Currently, Mr. Summers is overseeing close to $2M in research programs, and involved in multiple working groups tasked directly with the development of plug-and-play (PnP), modular avionics technologies and standardized interfaces for the DOD responsive satellite vision. This goal of the responsive satellite vision is the development and implementation of electrical and mechanical standards for future spacecraft providing the catalyst for accelerating reductions in cost and integration time. Prior to joining MSI, Mr. Summers spent 11 years at Lockheed Martin, responsible for the integration of advanced technologies into both NASA and DOD spacecraft systems. He directly supported Lockheed Martin’s Mars and interplanetary explotion missions performing spacecraft configuration design, subsystem packaging, and fabrication/test of the flight vehicles. He was presented a Technical Achievement Award for his efforts at integrating advanced technologies into spacecraft design, and was named co-author of the Year in the Astronautics Group. Mr. Summers has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Montana State University. |
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Todd J. Mosher, Ph.D.
Dr. Mosher joined Microsat Systems in October of 2006 as the Director of Advanced Systems. Dr. Mosher is responsible for expanding MSI’s customer and product base as well as developing new technology products and processes to improve MSI’s offerings to its customers. Dr. Mosher joined MSI after serving as Senior Manager of Advanced Exploration Systems for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, where he was a part of the group that was awarded the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle from NASA. Prior to working at Lockheed Martin, Dr. Mosher was an assistant professor at Utah State University (USU) where he was the Director of the Center for Advanced Satellite Manufacturing. While at USU, his research was sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Lockheed Martin, The Aerospace Corporation and the Space Dynamics Laboratory. He also served as the program chair for the annual American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)/USU Conference on Small Satellites. Dr. Mosher earned his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado, has two master’s degrees in aerospace engineering and systems engineering from the University of Colorado and the University of Alabama in Huntsville respectively, and received his bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from San Diego State University. He is also a faculty member and graduate of the International Space University. |
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Henry 'Lad' Curtis
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 papers. |
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