About Us
Chris has nearly two decades of experience as an officer and engineer with the United States Air Force.
During this time, he has led hundreds of military and civilian personnel in construction, facility and real property maintenance and management, consequence management, fire and emergency service, and disaster planning and recovery at locations in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. He’s planned, coordinated and executed millions of dollars worth of construction throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East and has managed the planning and execution of several multi-million dollar programs for the U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization worldwide.
Active with both NSPE and the Society of American Military Engineers, Chris has held numerous positions including national level task force postings with NSPE, and Post president and program chair with several SAME Posts. During this time, he's been recognized twice as the Air Force's Headquarters Air Combat Command NSPE Military Engineer of the Year in 2004 and 2011; the South Dakota State Society of Professional Engineer's Young Member of the Year, 2005; and was the recipient of the NSPE Professional Engineers In Government 2002 Management Fellowship award. He is registered in the states of North Carolina, Virginia, and Michigan and is a certified Project Management Professional.
Chris is also the author of The Engineer Leader blog, were you can read more about leadership, goal achievement and career and life success at www.engineerleader.com.
Education:
B.S. Civil Engineering, Michigan State University, 1993
MBA, Colorado State University, 2002
Bill has 40 years at McDonnell-Douglas Corp. / Boeing in modeling and simulation in St. Louis, and he is a Boeing Technical Fellow.
He works with aeronautical, software, avionics, and networking engineers to use reconfigurable prototype simulators as part of real-time, distributed, networked simulations. He helps put together the capability to allow flight hardware (live), simulated aircraft (virtual), and computer generated (constructive) models to operate on real time distributed networks. He has worked on aircraft and aircraft simulators from the F-4, the AV-8B to the F-15. He serves as a mentor to several engineers at Boeing.
Bill has held several positions for the International Council of Systems Engineering Midwest Gateway Chapter including president, treasurer, and program chairperson. He was the general chair for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Modeling and Simulation Conference, and chairman of the conference’s Technical Committee. He is a member of the NSPE Mentoring Task Force, the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers St. Louis Chapter, Board of Directors, and the PEI. He is also a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and a professional engineer.
Education:
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, 1970
M.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1978
MBA, Maryville University, 1990
