Chris has been a senior analyst with Forrester since 2016. Prior to Forrester Chris was the manager for enterprise web applications at Altran North America, overseeing and leading projects such as IoT enablement for medical devices, warehouse automation software, and online health records. For 13+ years he was a Senior Engineer with Microsoft as both a lead and individual contributor. Notable contributions were to the bCentral, Office Live, and Office 365 product lines. While at Microsoft, Chris and his team were among the first developers to create a product designed to run on Azure. In support of these efforts, Chris delved into the DevOps space contributing to the design and development of centralized, cloud-hosted application configuration management tools, secure cloud deployment tools, application log readers, and automated security systems. Prior to Microsoft, Chris developed software for FASTech, Object Design, and Digital, where he got his start.