Chris Howard is a Vice President of Infrastructure, Operations, and Quality Assurance at Sally Beauty. He possess expertise in retail, merchandising, management, inventory control, inventory management and 36 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I will never forget when I hit a low in my career. I went to Chris and he offered to pray with me. I recall thinking “but we are at work”. He reminded me that people do all types of non-value added activities at work. Nevertheless, we prayed. He prayed for protection for me and my family. He also prayed that the issues I faced at work would pass. It all worked out and I am forever thankful to Chris for setting a great example as a leader. Over the years, I have been inspired to do the same thing." and "Chris has got to be the hardest working man in IS. On many occasions I have had the pleasure to work with Chris and his group. Chris has a personality that you just can't help but like. Always ready to help and follows through with any task you need him or his group to manage. In 2006 we rolled out the largest deployment of Windows -based PC's in our chains history. Chris's group was responsible for rolling these PCs out to the stores and also manages the contractors we had visit each store. These rollouts occurred both over-night and during store operating hours. Thanks to Chris's help and many others in his group the rollout was a complete success. And this is just a recent example of the kind of work Chris does at Michaels. Thank you, Chris."