Mr. Steven Peltier is the executive director of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research and is a member of the BIRN Coordinating Center Leadership Team. He is an interdisciplinary engineer with interests spanning instrumentation design and development, automation and control software development, grid computing, and general management. He directs programs involving instrumentation and computation and is the leader of Telescience project. Reporting to the director and co-director, he also oversees the general management of the resource.