OVERVIEW AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chris has over 20 years of experience in managing a diverse group of engineering teams. At Acorn Chris leads the 24x7x365 systems and network engineering teams, Cybersecurity team, NOC and SOC teams. Chris ensures critical infrastructure issues and incidents are handled effectively and efficiently. Chris helps his teams with infrastructure architecture, discovery, and risk management. Chris guides Acorn customers in doing things the right way to reduce overall cost and risk.

Chris has expert level knowledge in on-premises data center management, Azure Cloud management, network management and overall infrastructure architecture. Chris, over the years has helped our City clients and our public sector clients with Azure cloud migrations, Exchange server migrations to O365, disaster recovery architecture and implementation, data center hardware refresh, cybersecurity projects including implementation of DLP and NDLP, and full network hardware replacement.

Chris takes great pride in working hand in hand with customers to architect solutions which meet the need and exceed the requirements of the business while giving end users the best possible experience. This includes necessary redundancies to maximize uptime and access to critical business functions.

In his free time Chris loves to hike and is an avid offroad driver.