Keith Avery was a program manager for the Space Electronics Technology program and the Advanced Demonstration of On-orbit eXperiments flight program, the Chief Engineer for the Battlespace Environments Division and a subject matter expert in microelectronics and radiation effects for the Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate. His leadership roles in microelectronics and radiation effects enabled collaboration across USG/DoD/DOE, industry and academia. He serves on the steering committees for the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), the Hardened Electronics and Radiation Technology (HEART) Conference and the Single Event Effects Symposium/Microelectronics and Programmable Logic Devices (SEE/MAPLD). He also spent several years in commercial industry developing an array of products for industrial and commercial users.