Steven P. Shepard

Steven Shepard was born in Lansing, MI, growing up in nearby Haslett for the majority of his childhood (with stops in Atlanta, GA and St. Louis, MO). He played multiple sports, learning from his dad, including football, tennis, basketball, baseball and soccer. At an early age he fell in love with Star Wars and later in high school, was inspired by the book Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy, by Kip Thorne. This led him to pursue a career in aerospace engineering, where he graduated magna cum laude with his bachelor and master of science degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan. Steve went on to design, launch and author over 35 papers in the field of propulsion and thermal control for spacecraft and satellites at Lockheed Martin (LM) in Sunnyvale and Palo Alto, CA, where he is presently the Advanced Materials and Energetics Research Manager at LM’s Advanced Technology Center. Steve competes in multiple United States Tennis Association (USTA) tennis leagues and tournaments, trains Muay Thai, picked up skiing, enjoys biking and hiking the many wonderful locations sprinkled throughout Northern California, is an avid traveler, voracious reader and is a member of multiple animal welfare and environmental advocate agencies. He lives in San Jose, CA with his girlfriend Moy and four cats (Callie, Spartacus, Maximus and Daenerys). Stay engaged with Steve and the fight to vanquish cancer via the following platforms: URL: www.StevenPShepard.com Email: StevenPShepard@gmail.com Facebook: @VanquishingCancer Instagram: @StevenPShepard Twitter: @StevenPShepard LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in /StevenPShepard