Chris is MAYA’s director of advanced development, eduction. He’s currently managing MAYA’s Human-Centered Design “boot-camp”—a hands-on, three-day course specifically designed to teach companies how to do human-centric innovation and then integrate it into their product-development process.
Chris leads MAYA’s educational venture devoted to satisfying the emerging need for design thinking in organizations of all types and sizes.
Chris joined MAYA to grow this current offering into a new company devoted to helping commercial, educational, and government establishments develop design competency across their organization—enabling them to innovate more useful, usable, desirable, and effective products, policies, and services.
Before he came to MAYA, Chris cofounded BodyMedia, Inc., where he led interaction design and customer marketing. His main responsibilities were the creation and design of the company’s clinical and consumer product offerings. Before that, he was an assistant professor in the School of Design at Carnegie-Mellon University. He developed new curriculum and taught courses in human-computer interaction, interface design, information design, and drawing.
Chris has an undergraduate degree in design from Carnegie Mellon University and a master’s degree in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He holds several IDEA Gold Medal Awards sponsored by BusinessWeek and the Industrial Designers Society of America and a handful of patents.