Chris is an interactive designer, coder, and graphic designer with over 16 years of industry experience. From concepting museum experiences, choosing the right interpretive media, or wiring and coding, Chris strives to engage visitors who expect more out of their experience. In an increasingly more digital world, Chris values in-person, physical exhibits, using interactive experiences to bring moments not possible anywhere else. The tech should disappear leaving a sense of awe and magic. Chris makes visitors weep, jump for joy, point to share, and ask others to join in the fun. Chris’s every step is thoughtful creating accessible, approachable, and inclusive experiences. Chris knows the importance of choosing the interpretive message before the media. With a calm attitude, Chris works smoothly under pressure to produce quality results. Chris is conscientious of project budgets and schedules. Chris will make it easy for the project team, building the interactive media requiring less maintenance, all while blowing visitors’ minds.

As the Director of Media & Design, Chris oversees communication and function for interactive experiences. His technical expertise in exhibit design, interactive web design, graphic design, video production, and archaeology ensures clear visual messaging for sites, museums, and visitor centers across the country. Through his artistic direction and media choices, Chris advocates for meaningful visitor experiences. Chris is also a tinkerer and maker, building digital devices–including a scratch-built and programmed multi-touch table–in his free time. In all of his work, Chris places great emphasis on providing accessible and engaging content for a broad audience.• Lead team of designers, photographers, and videographers creating museum exhibits.• Design overall visitor experience. Select and test the best media to convey each exhibit’s primary message and ensure meaningful interpretive visitor experiences.• Promote universal design creating accessible exhibit experiences with audio description and tactile exhibits including Braille and raised letters.• Facilitate creative meetings with internal teams, external partners, clients, sub-consultants, and other stakeholders yielding award-winning exhibit approaches. • Develop and evaluate functional prototypes, iterating better experiences.• Create custom software. Estimate, specify, configure, and deploy media hardware. Install and maintain exhibits. Troubleshoot deployed media. Network administration.• Maintain project schedules and budgets. Develop systems and databases to efficiently plan exhibits, track and code media assets, and secure use rights.• Capture video using studio lighting, various microphones, and video cameras. Edit video footage, audio, still images, motion graphics, and illustrations.• Research and test new media bringing new ideas to exhibit planning.

• Teach computer programming to design and marketing students.• Ensure students will be able to communicate with developers in future projects.• Inspire learning as students conquer fears of coding and expand creative boundaries.