Education:
San Juan High School Graduate, 1976. Has continued his education at local colleges intermittently since 1976.
Special Instruction:
Lighting design course conducted by the Illuminating Engineering Society course in conjunction with the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District. Fundamentals of Motor Controls conducted by the Sacramento Valley Energy League. Course in AutoCAD at Cosumnes River College, 1988.
Experience:
Christ has been with the company for twenty-five years. As a Project Manager, Chris uses his vast experience to oversee design and coordination on all projects for which he is responsible. Chris' areas of expertise are in church design, restaurants, fueling\convenience stores, and telecommunications facilities.
Chris' knowledge of church lighting and power requirements has been utilized on scores of successful church projects. On existing churches he surveys existing facilities, documents existing systems and reports on recommended renovations and cost implications recommendations. His knowledge of church lighting requirements and fixture specifications ensures success on achieving the best lighting for every area of new or renovated churches.
Chris has engineered electrical systems for IHOP, Burger King, Togo’s, Baskin Robbins, Max‘s Restaurants, Boston Market, Chipotle, Cena Di Mare, Dos Coyotes, T.G.I. Friday’s, Ruth’s Chris Steak House as well as dozens of independent restaurants.
Success on ARCO, Texaco, Exxon, Shell, Tosco and independent gas station new and remodel projects is evidenced by the hundreds of stations engineered by Chris while at Sacramento Engineering Consultants.
Among telecommunications clients served by Chris are Nextel, Sprint PCS, AT&T wireless, Cingular, Metro PCS, Pacific Bell Mobil Services, MCI and others. If repeat clients indicate success, Chris has displayed success by engineering hundreds of telecommunications projects on a continuing basis.
Engineered electrical systems include: power distribution emergency generation systems, interior and exterior lighting, power, fiber optic cabling, fire alarm and signal systems.
On all of the above projects and others managed by Chris, he maintains client relations, directs designers and drafters, coordinates design, contacts utilities, checks final design, administers construction and does site inspections and follow-up to ensure a project which exceeds client expectations.
Prior to joining Sacramento Engineering Consultants, Chris was a Draftsman/Electrical Designer for other large Sacramento electrical engineering firms in Sacramento always increasing his knowledge and responsibility to achieve.