Tim Smith is an engineer and mission manager with NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Currently he is the NASA Mission Manager for the Cryogenic Fluids Management Project in the Technology Demonstration Missions Program. He has 35 years of engineering experience in increasingly responsible systems engineering roles on manned and unmanned space systems. He has performed these roles in both private industry and NASA. From 2011 to present, he has served as the mission manager for multiple projects in the Technology Demonstration Missions Program. From 2000 to 2011 he served in a lead systems engineering and chief engineer role for ISS payloads and launch vehicles/small satellites with NASA. From 1984 to 2000 he held increasingly responsible safety and systems engineering roles on Spacelab and ISS payloads. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama in 1983 and a M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1997.