Chris helps clients capitalize on strategic opportunities by designing useful and intuitive products and services. A jack-of-all-trades who understands human cognitive limits, Chris is particularly interested in information tools and work methods that enable improved decision making.
Through his work, Chris has explored both the technical and human sides of complex problems.
For MAYA’s clients, he has created interfaces and design guidelines, conducted customer research and interviews, evaluated the usability of products and design ideas, and created videos that demonstrate user experiences with products—even before a product exists.
Prior to MAYA, Chris was a Master’s student in CMU’s Human Computer Interaction Institute. After he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University, he worked in both for-profit and non-profit settings—including four years in the Washington, D.C. office of the RAND Corporation.
Chris has worked to establish face recognition biometric standards, collected requirements for a large-scale biometric identification system, independently built a distributed grid computing system, and studied how military performance depends on the mode of communication. When Chris isn’t at MAYA, he’s working on Brring, a mobile communications startup he co-founded.