Steve Van Tuyl is the Program Manager for the Academic Data Science Alliance, where he is responsible for identifying and shepherding special projects within the ADSA community. Before joining ADSA, he was variously a digital repository librarian, research data librarian, and computer science librarian at Oregon State University and Carnegie Mellon University. He was also an active member of the Samvera open source repository community, helping coordinate resources for and development of the Hyrax repository solution bundle. Steve was trained as an ecologist at Colorado College and Oregon State University, and worked for many years with the US Forest Service researching the effects of natural and human disturbances on terrestrial carbon cycles.