About Me

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Lewis Curtis is an independent consultant/advisor after founding and leading Microsoft's community disaster response program as  director of Microsoft Services Disaster Response (MSDR) leading the program and community since 2012.   While there, Lewis was accountable for disaster response mobilizations empowering regional areas to heal their communities and deploy teams across the company urgently delivering technical missions to communities after a disaster as well as humanitarian technology missions.

With nearly 19  years at Microsoft, Lewis founded and led Microsoft’s Services Disaster Response (MSDR) program and was accountable for the success of technical disaster response mobilizations and missions for communities and organizations in their time of need globally.   With over 650 completed missions in over 75 countries with over thousands of employees and contractors involved, the program repaired broken systems as well as rapidly build new solutions at no charge and no conditions for future sales or public relations activity,  Lewis's program employed regional areas to help impacted and response agencies to reduce human suffering and stabilize the community.   

In 2007, Lewis experienced a stroke which impeded his communication capability.  As he recovered his speech, Lewis resolved to a drive positive impact for communities experiencing tragedy eventually founding the MSDR program

At home, Lewis and his wife live on a small 11 acre farm caring for dairy goats, chickens, honey bees, gardening and feeding the wild birds in Washington state.  A couple of years ago, Microsoft featured an article with a video made by the University of Northern Colorado (his undergrad alma mater) on Lewis and the work at Microsoft