Crowd Resources Consulting LLC

Steve started Crowd Resources Consulting LLC in 2019 as a side gig (to his full-time job at NASA) to provide organizations with resources for leveraging the crowd-based expertise and solutions required to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving global economy.

Steve previously served as the Program Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), which works to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowdsourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge-based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.

During Steve’s career at NASA, he worked with various projects and organizations to develop and execute over 100 different open innovation and open talent projects. He speaks regularly about crowd-based challenges and the future of work based on his 12 years of experience leading open innovation/talent efforts at NASA.

Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for 36 years. Prior to joining NASA’s CoECI, 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 (C3I) architecture definition for the Constellation Program.