Chris is a vice president of Oliver Wyman Engineers based in Boston, bringing more than 30 years of industry, defense, and consulting experience.
His focus is on improving operations, complex program management, productivity, quality, and throughput from a technical perspective. Chris is an expert in program/project recovery, performance improvement in launch and crisis situations, problem-solving, and risk management.
Prior to his consulting career, Chris served as a submarine officer and engineering duty officer in the US Navy. He also worked as a systems engineer and program manager at Raytheon. His firsthand experience depending on, designing, producing, and sustaining defense systems while in the service and in the defense industry forms the cornerstone of his work for clients. Chris has supported some of the largest and most complex platform and weapons system programs in the US Department of Defense. He has also collaborated with clients on several different engagements, resulting in jointly published peer-reviewed papers that addressed critical issues.
Successfully managing risks and performance in defense programs requires a quantitative understanding of the cause-effect dynamics within the broader ecosystem of shared resources and common processes. Our clients rely on us to help them understand and effectively address the complexity of that environment to sustainably improve performance
Chris is a licensed professional engineer who holds Naval Engineer and Masters of Ocean Engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also has an MBA from Old Dominion University and a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Penn State University.
Outside of work, Chris and his wife enjoy improving their Argentine Tango dancing skills and actively participate in the lives of their three adult children.