Chris began his career with Toyota in 1995 in Design and Evaluation. In this role, Chris worked extensively in establishing a North American supplier base, designing and testing Toyota’s North American vehicles and training in Japan. During this time, Chris had the opportunity to participate and lead multiple lean events in Georgetown, KY and in Japan.

Chris moved to GE Aviation in 2000 and spent 16 years in Engineering working in Systems, Advanced turbine blade technology, mechanical systems, and externals integration including work on the GE90-115B, GP7200 / A380, GEnx, LEAP and GE9X engine lines. Starting in 2008, Chris started working in additive in various forms including polymer and metal additive as well as more advanced materials. Chris’ teams in Aviation led to the creation of the LEAP fuel nozzle, the GE9X , Catalyst engine and future military platforms.

In October of 2016, Chris helped found GE Additive (now Colibrium Additive) as the Engineering Integration leader for GE Additive and then led the GE Additive AddWorksTM team to accelerate additive adoption across all industries. In January 2020, Chris was named the global leader of Additive’s Engineering & Technology teams helping advance the state of the art of additive machines, software, applications, and materials. This also led to the external sale of an internally developed technology (https://www.hyliion.com/karno/ ). He has also lead the development of multiple government programs including a 2024 Senate appropriation of $5M, a Department of Energy grant of $5M, and total government sales of over $30M.

Most recently, in January 2025, Chris was promoted to the General Manager, GE Aerospace Additive Part Family Team which includes the prior responsibilities within the additive business but adds the Aerospace additive integrated product team that manufactures all of the additive parts that go into GE Aerospace’s engines.