Chris Lacy
San Antonio,TX
Summary
Dynamic Senior Intelligence Officer and Technical Product Manager with over 30 years of expertise in the Department of Defense, complemented by military veteran experience. Holds TS/SCI, SSBI, and CI Polygraph Security Clearance. Consistently delivers measurable results while leading teams of over 100 personnel in high-pressure environments. Extensive background in Intelligence Operations, Joint Planning, and Project Management refined through domestic and global operations. Adept at managing risk across multiple lines to safeguard assets valued at over $100M, consistently exceeding senior leadership expectations.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Deployment Strategist
Palantir
Washington, DC
11.2024 - Current
- Roles and Responsibilities: 90% SME/Contributor, 10% Business Development
- Directed FDE/FSR team to enhance USAF dynamic targeting capabilities at 613 AOC. Achieved first successful implementation of AI-driven targeting capability in INDOPACOM.
- Engineered and deployed comprehensive targeting capabilities on US-ROK network (Centrix-K) to facilitate seamless collaboration among over 3000 daily users.
- Managed USAF targeting portfolio initiatives to secure Palantir/C3BM Air Operations Center enterprise licensing.
- Travel 75%
Director Solutions Architect
Primer AI
07.2022 - 11.2024
- Roles and Responsibilities: 80% SME/Contributor, 20% Business Development, Technical proposal writing, and Technical solutions development
- Led USAF/IC Technical capture in support of three Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) direct to Phase 2 prototyping.
- Lead technical architect for discover/development of 16 Air Force Cyber Wing Cyber-ISR capability
- Integrated 2 Large Language Models (LLMs) Publicly Available Information (PAI) into IC OSINT production
- Travel 75%
Technical Program Manager / Solutions Architect
Rebellion Defense
10.2021 - 07.2022
- Roles and Responsibilities: 80% SME/Contributor, 20% Business Development, Proposal Writing, Mentoring, Lead Lunch and Learns
- Led USAF capture team in support of J-FIRES custody/confidence orchestration engine RFP.
- Lead Architect for discover/capture/development of Air Force Chief Scientist Dynamic Targeting capability in support of EUCOM/INDO-PACOM integration into Platform One/Operational DevSecOps for ISR NEXTGEN (ODIN)
- Developed an NLP pipeline for custom models for NER and Relationship extraction.
- Travel 50%
Senior Principal Cyber Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Release Train Engineer (RTE) for $50M USAF Offensive Cyber weapon system
- Led a diverse team of up to 10 multi-disciplined and operational domain analysts in mission requirements development, prototyping activities, and experimentation to develop innovative processing, exploitation, and dissemination applications.
- Provided technical support, conducting regular performance and development conversations communication with Project/Task Leads on performance.
- Travel 10%
Deputy Commander Combat Mission Task Force
United States Air Force
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Joint Forces Headquarter-level director responsible for national level Cyber Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance for Offensive Network Exploitation and Offensive Cyber operations
- Responsible for 6 offensive cyber teams with 7 diverse Air Force Specialty Code conducting offensive cyber operations in support of 3 combatant command operational planning requirements
- Led the acquisition and development of cutting-edge cyber solutions to support major combatant command offensive cyber capabilities in close coordination with operations and research and development teams.
- Developed 2-year operational planning team strategy. Oversaw Joint Operations Planning Process (JOPP) in support of 3 Combatant Commands and Task Force crisis action and contingency operations planning
- Various Positions (1994-2020)
Director Combat Mission/Support Team (CMT/CST)
375th Cyber Operations Squadron
01.2017 - 01.2019
- Led 64-member Offensive Cyber operations (OCO) team with 7 diverse AFSCs conducting cyber operations and target analysis in support of Combatant Commands Operational Plan (OPLAN) requirements.
- Oversaw operations planning and execution of POTUS-directed cyber fires in support of national defense Leads Cyber Mission Team providing cyber intel planning, analysis, production, and capabilities development
- Established plans for future large-scale training events through the development of training scope, manpower requirements, and equipment needs; obtained $2.3M in funding to execute training
Education
M.S. - Joint Operations Planning and Strategy
USAF Air Command & Staff College
01-2018
M.S. - Strategic Intelligence
American Military University
01-2012
B.S. - Information Technology
University of Phoenix
01-2004
Skills
- Advanced Data Analytics/Integration
- Structured Analytical Methodologies (SAM)
- ISR
- Collection Ops (COM) / (CRM)
- Targeting (Deliberate / Dynamic)
- Cyber (OCO)
- Foundry/AIP
- Maven Smart System (MSS)
Certification
- University of Texas: PGP-Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Business Application (2023)
- CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner + CE (2021-2024) DoD 8570 IASAE Level 2 CertID: COMP00121756914
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) (2020-2021)
- Joint Network Attack Course (JNAC)
- Joint Advanced Cyberspace Warfare Course (JACWC)
- Idaho National Labs-ICS/SCADA Cybersecurity (2019)
- Joint Targeting Staff Course (2019)
- Combat Targeting (2004)
- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Operations (2003)
COURSES TAUGHT
- USAF Intelligence Operating Specialist (2002-2004)
- USAF Combat Targeting (2003-2005)
- USAF Intelligence Officers Course (2004-2005)
- USAF ISR Operations Course (2004-2006)
- USAF Analysis, Correlation and Fusion Course (2005-2006)
Timeline
Deployment Strategist
Palantir
11.2024 - Current
Director Solutions Architect
Primer AI
07.2022 - 11.2024
Technical Program Manager / Solutions Architect
Rebellion Defense
10.2021 - 07.2022
Senior Principal Cyber Systems Engineer
Northrop Grumman
01.2020 - 01.2021
Deputy Commander Combat Mission Task Force
United States Air Force
01.2019 - 01.2020
Director Combat Mission/Support Team (CMT/CST)
375th Cyber Operations Squadron
01.2017 - 01.2019
M.S. - Strategic Intelligence
American Military University
B.S. - Information Technology
University of Phoenix
M.S. - Joint Operations Planning and Strategy
USAF Air Command & Staff College