Our son Chris was born on 9/8/76 in Lausanne, Switzerland. (While I was at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.) He excelled in school and was involved in many extra-curricular activities. He became an Eagle Scout in 1994.
Chris graduated from Lubbock High School in 1995. He received his BS in Computer Science from Texas Tech University (TTU) in 1999. While he was at TTU, he was a National Merit Scholarship recipient and he also received the TTU Presidential Endowed Scholarship. He has broad experience in the Computer Science field. In 1996-1999, he worked as a programmer for Compu-Share, a financial software company in Lubbock. In 2000-2002, he worked as a software engineer for Inet Technologies, a telecommunications company in Plano (Dallas), TX.
Chris married Kristen Bennett
on 6/27/98
in Wichita Falls, TX. Kristen graduated from S.H. Rider High
School (Wichita Falls) in 1995. (Her
father is the band director there.) She received her
BS in Psychology
from TTU
in 1999
and her MS
in
Applied Cognition & Neuroscience from the U. of
Texas at
Dallas in 2002. During
her MS
studies, she did an internship at
the U. of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She is an expert in the
field of Clinical
Neurophysiology.
Chris and Kristen have lived in Orlando, FL since 2002. He works as a software engineer for eSchool Solutions, a company that develops software for public school systems. She works for Biotronic, a company that contracts with hospitals for neurophysiological (brain, brain stem, and spine) monitoring services and equipment. A major portion of her job is to monitor brain function during surgery. To learn more about Chris, check out his webpage.