Christie Iacomini
Sr Technical Manager at Lockheed Martin
Denver Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Semi Retired
2025 - Current
Sr Program Manager & Sr Technical Manager, In-Space Infrastructure
2022 - 2025
Oversee technology portfolio, roadmaps and internal research and development programs. Manage NASA-funded Lunar Vertical Solar Array Technology (LVSAT) development resulting in full scale system demonstrations in relevant lunar environments. Formulate and contribute to capture and partnership strategies.
Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company specialized in advanced technology systems, products and services.
Raised $62,016,440.00 from Air Force Research Laboratory, United States Air Force, NYSERDA and NYSERDA.
Advisor
2022 - 2023
Assess and advise select aerospace investments, teams and technology.
VP of Engineering & Partner
2021 - 2022
Prime Movers Lab invests in breakthrough scientific startups commercializing technology to reinvent energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture industries. Responsible for leading a team of engineers and scientists in the technical diligence process for vetting potential investments. Supported portfolio companies in IP strategy, non-advocate design reviews, organization growth and hiring.
Prime Movers Lab invests in startups reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture.
Sr Director Descent Element, Human Landing System
2020 - 2021
Led the development of the descent stage (a variant of Blue Moon) through PDR as part of the National Team Human Landing System three-vehicle architecture under NASA contract. Included overseeing manufacturing, test and technology development as well as supply chain, budget and schedule. Scaled organization and processes to meet technical milestones.
Program Manager Blue Moon Lunar Lander
2018 - 2020
Responsible for system maturation including strategic technology demonstrations and supplier selection, program planning, organizational resources and staff. Responsible for budget and schedule. Reported directly to NASA customer for contractual work and SVP of Advanced Development Programs for all else.
Sr. Director Advanced Systems
2018 - 2020
Established Advanced Development Programs responsible for maturing space systems from concept through deployment to new business units. Built staffing, engineering processes, training and tools. Served as Principal Investigator for two NASA contracts, one developing concepts and market studies for LEO commercialization, and another exploring in situ resource utilization (ISRU) concepts.
Fluid Systems Product Group Lead
2016 - 2018
Responsible for all engineering efforts required for the development and operation of fluids, thermal control, and life support products on New Shepard suborbital and New Glenn orbital vehicles. Reviewed and authorized engineering. Reviewed all discrepancy reports, investigated root cause and assigned corrective actions. Managed and grew engineering team, including fluids-specialty support in analysis, test and procurement. Reported to VP of Engineering and collaborated with other PGLs to improve engineering processes across the enterprise.
Blue Origin is an aerospace company that focuses on lowering the cost of spaceflight and helping to explore the solar system.
Raised $185,350,000.00 from E1 Ventures.
Deputy of Customer Delivery
2015 - 2016
Deputy to the Chief Operating Officer responsible for execution of the company’s strategy and operational policy across Engineering, Manufacturing, Research & Development and Quality.
Program Manager & Project Engineer, Boeing CST-100 Starliner HCS
2012 - 2016
Developed the Humidity Control Subassembly from concept through qualification and first flight article delivery. Proposed, negotiated and managed contract. Led test campaign (shock, vibe, TVAC, system performance, proof, pressure cycle and leak). On-budget and on-schedule performance with no requests for program adjustments and met all technical requirements. Hardware completed two flights, in 2019 and 2022.
Principal Investigator
2005 - 2016
Proposed and led various, diverse technology development projects with applications in life support, thermal control, power and lunar/Mars in situ resource utilization. Awarded 15 NASA technology development contracts, including 12 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants (Phase 1, 2 and 3) and one sole source. Delivered first flight commercial space suit & life support system used by Alan Eustance’s world record-breaking Strat Ex space dive. Patent US 9,109,843 Radiator Systems, Sole Inventor 2015
Director of Operational Programs (acting)
2009 - 2011
Duties were concurrent with and similar to Director of R&D position but applied to Operational Programs for design, manufacture, and delivery of life critical and flight hardware.
Director of Research and Development
2008 - 2011
Created the Research and Development (R&D) department to manage and engender growth of the company and provide proper representation of R&D program needs in the presence of differing and competing needs of manufacturing and flight hardware programs. Collaborated with the Vice President of Engineering in determining and managing scope of internal R&D activities in line with the strategic plan Ensured all R&D programs met technical, budgetary and schedule expectations by providing Project Leads guidance, formulating mitigation plans if not on target, reviewing major deliverables, and providing technical input to all design and test readiness reviews Managed technicians and engineers by negotiating assignments relevant to skills sets, tracking productivity and work load, participating in performance reviews, identifying employee potential for growth and/or increased responsibility Directed and wrote proposals (technical, schedule, costing, and strategy) as well as contributed to review/approval of proposals
Research Professor
2004 - 2005
Performed experimental and theoretical research in areas of heat transfer, thermodynamics of chemically reacting flows, mass diffusion through porous media Instructor: AME 424 An Introduction to Space Technologies – a senior-level course covering in situ resource utilization (ISRU), rocketry, space power, spacecraft thermal design, the space environment and orbital mechanics Managed the Space Technologies Laboratory
Aerospace Engineer
1996 - 1999
X-38 Parafoil Principal Investigator responsible for modeling, simulation, flight testing and analysis of parafoil systems and aerodynamics Lead Parafoil Pilot and Mission Commander for test flights Designed interplanetary transfer trajectories
Aerospace Engineering Co-op Student
1989 - 1996
Intern for eight semesters supporting a variety of projects: Lunar and Mars mission trajectory analyses, Lunar guidance and control algorithm development, Space Shuttle operations, and Space Station experiment-induced dynamics analysis and modeling. Founder, JSC Co-op Certificate of Appreciation for Mentors
Graduate Research Assistant
1994 - 1996
Focus area in orbital mechanics - First to demonstrate the feasibility of relative positioning between two GPS receivers in LEO - Demonstrated Space Shuttle orbit determination using GPS to a position accuracy < 10 m - Integrated and tested flight hardware on the WSF at Kennedy Space Center, Orlando, FL and served as payload flight controller for GPS Wake Shield Facility (WSF) experiment on STS-69