Michael McGrath is the Engineering Director at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and most recently participated in NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere SMEX Mission as Project Manager. His experience extends back to the Pioneer Venus mission, and includes NASA's Voyager, Solar Mesospheric Explorer, Cassini, TIMED, The Student Nitric Oxide Explorer satellite and SORCE missions.