Chris is a Staff Strategic Product Manager at AVEVA responsible for the data collection product strategy including edge and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Chris joined OSIsoft (now AVEVA) in 2014 as a Solution Architect with over 25 years of process automation, data management, and project execution experience having worked in various engineering and product marketing roles in the power, process, and semiconductor industries. Chris spent the 15 years prior to joining OSIsoft at a global process automation company where he worked closely with OSIsoft to develop applications and solutions to integrate with the PI System. Chris has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University, holds several patents in the areas of process automation and data management, and is a registered Professional Engineer.