Stephen Watson:  

Stephen H. Watson a senior engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he is the Project Software Systems Engineer for the Juno mission to Jupiter, scheduled for launch in August of 2011. He is responsible for defining, documenting and implementing all project-level software development processes and standards, leading the software risk management activities, overseeing the technical, cost, and schedule performance of all software development activities, and providing technical and managerial guidance and direction to all software development organizations on the mission. Previously, he was the supervisor of the Ground Software Systems Engineering Group. He was previously the Project Software Systems Engineer for the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) ¿09 mission. Prior to his work on MTO, Mr. Watson was the software Cognizant Engineer for the Low Temperature Microgravity Physics Facility. His role included managing the contractor team analyzing, designing, implementing and testing flight software, interfacing to International Space Station team at Marshall Space Flight Center, and overseeing all system-level s...Expand for more