Mike Kelly is chief of the Technical Excellence Office for the NASA Safety Center (NSC). In this role, he is responsible for planning, organizing and directing a full range of integrated services including Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) curriculum and course development, SMA engineering support for over 2,800 NASA civil service and support contract employees agencywide, and the SMA Technical Excellence Program (STEP) — NASA’s university for safety. Kelly also serves as program manager for the Chief Safety Officers Summit and Executive Safety Leadership Program. He is located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. 

Prior to this role, Kelly served as the Technical Leadership Technical Discipline Team Lead (TDTL) and also as the Quality Engineering (QE) TDTL for the NSC. As the Technical Leadership TDTL, he offered a professional development path for the SMA Technical Leadership discipline through STEP and developed and defined the role of the SMA Technical Leadership curriculum participant through professional development opportunities, collaborative events and working groups. As the QE TDTL, Kelly was responsible for the professional development of NASA’s QE workforce.