Senior Director of Engineering

• Apr 2022 - Present

Director of Engineering

• Jul 2019 - Apr 2022

Systems Engineer

• Jan 2019 - Jun 2019

Senior Director of Engineering

• Apr 2022 - Sep 2022

Director of Engineering

• Jul 2019 - Apr 2022

Systems Engineer

• Jan 2019 - Jun 2019

Doctoral Research Assistant

• Sep 2013 - Jan 2019

PhD in Product Design Developing, teaching, and evaluating innovative approaches to design education. Emphasis on project-based human-centered product design classes for undergraduate mechanical engineering students. Created and implemented “Design for the Wilderness” class that develops students’ design thinking, engineering science worldview, and leadership skills through design/build projects and wilderness travel. Quantitative and qualitative research experience. GPA: 5.0 / 5.0 Teaching MIT Mechanical Engineering, Introduction to Design, (Lab Instructor Fall 2017) MIT Mechanical Engineering, Product Engineering Process (Mentor Fall 2017) MIT Mechanical Engineering, Toy Product Design (Lab Instructor Spring 2017) MIT Global Leadership Program, Design for the Wilderness (Creator/Instructor 2014-2017) MIT Engineering Systems Division, Leadership Development (Instructor Fall 2014) Show less

Instructor

• Jun 2013 - Sep 2013

Chris worked as a member of an instructor team delivering wilderness-based experiential education programming to youth participating on 17-day backpacking expeditions. There was a strong emphasis on facilitating group process and a personal development journey alongside teaching backcountry wilderness travel and survival skills. Chris worked as a member of an instructor team delivering wilderness-based experiential education programming to youth participating on 17-day backpacking expeditions. There was a strong emphasis on facilitating group process and a personal development journey alongside teaching backcountry wilderness travel and survival skills.

Consultant

• Sep 2012 - May 2013

Chris worked with clients in the post-secondary educational and government sector developing policy and facilitating consultation sessions using the Art of Hosting methodology. The Art of Hosting is an approach to leadership that scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and the co-creation of innovation to address complex challenges. Chris worked with clients in the post-secondary educational and government sector developing policy and facilitating consultation sessions using the Art of Hosting methodology. The Art of Hosting is an approach to leadership that scales up from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and the co-creation of innovation to address complex challenges.

Intern Instructor

• May 2012 - Sep 2012

Chris worked as a member of an instructor team delivering wilderness-based experiential education programming to youth participating on 17-day backpacking expeditions. There was a strong emphasis on facilitating group process and a personal development journey alongside teaching backcountry wilderness travel and survival skills. Chris worked as a member of an instructor team delivering wilderness-based experiential education programming to youth participating on 17-day backpacking expeditions. There was a strong emphasis on facilitating group process and a personal development journey alongside teaching backcountry wilderness travel and survival skills.

President & CEO

• May 2010 - May 2012

Chris managed a team of four student Vice Presidents and nine career full time staff members in an organization with over 125 part time student employees providing a diverse array of services with a yearly operating budget of nearly 3 million dollars. Chris also acted as the official spokesperson for the 16 500 students at Dalhousie University by regularly providing interviews for print, radio and television news stories and lobbying on postsecondary education issues at the municipal, provincial, and federal level. In 2011-2012 Chris was also the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, representing over 320,000 post-secondary students at 25 institutions to the federal government. Show less