A 30 - year veteran at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mr. Hoffman has supported a number of major
flight projects, including working on software for the Voyager
spacecraft's encounter with Neptune, testing computer hardware for the Cassini mission to Saturn, participating in the STARDUST mission to the WILD - 2 comet as a member of the project systems engineering team, contributing to the Mars rovers (Spirit and
Opportunity) as Avionics Systems Manager and serving as Deputy Project Manager for the GRAIL mission to the Moon.