Chris is a Senior IT Professional with 30 years experience in Oil & Gas, Refining and Energy Trading.Chris is an exceptional IT professional skilled at understanding requirements, recognizing business challenges and proficient at understanding and deploying technologies. He is an avid researcher and applies innovative technologies to drive business value, create competitive advantage, and create IT strategies and technology roadmaps that align with business strategy."Chris has the ability to effectively manage people, projects and operational roles. He has the remarkable ability to present technical topics to non-technical business focused audiences.""Chris is a key contributor for researching and creating robust IT infrastructure solutions world wide. He designs end-to-end solutions that deliver highly available, reliable, and scalable systems. He ensures solution designs from within the Infrastructure and Applications teams meet business requirements and are engineered in accordance with corporate architectural standards.""Chris demonstrates strategic thinking in his roles. Chris’ skills enabled us to integrate IT systems of many large and small acquisitions in a trouble free and cost effective manner.""Chris has the unique ability to manage the resolution of serious IT incidents. He organizes specialists in cross-functional teams who work together to bring resolution quickly. He manages this role very well using his communication and management skills.""Chris has consistently been rated as one of our best performers. He has taken on major projects within IT which were outside of his immediate area of responsibility. He works long hours and is unselfish with his knowledge. He is a great resource to others in the department."Community minded Chris shares his IT knowledge to help non-profit organizations. You will often find Chris coaching sports teams for his 3 boys, managing age group divisions, and officiating for Hockey Alberta in Calgary Central Region.