Speakers
Lionel "Lonnie" Dutreix III, A-3 Test Stand Project Manager, John C. Stennis Space Center
Lonnie Dutreix serves as the project manager for the A-3 Test Stand under the Project Directorate at NASA John C. Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi. He previously served as deputy chief of the Test Operations Division in SSC's Propulsion Test Directorate.
Dutreix has been with NASA since 2000, but has worked at SSC his entire career, except for a four-year period when he worked in the oil and gas industry. From 1987 to 1996, he was a data systems manager and an instrumentation engineer with Rockwell International's Rocketdyne Division (now part of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne), working on space shuttle main engine testing at SSC.
Since joining NASA, he has held various responsibilities for NASA-SSC's rocket propulsion testing, including planning and conducting of propulsion test programs and special test equipment systems, preparing test operations and maintaining test facilities.
Dutreix is the recipient of NASA's Exceptional Achievement Medal in 2005, as well as several NASA Group Achievement and Special Service awards.
A professional engineer, Dutreix received his bachelor of science in electrical engineering and his master of science in engineering from the University of New Orleans. The River Ridge, La., native now lives in Slidell with his wife and five children.