Industry Biography

Chris is a consultant to Honeywell, sensor production. She previously worked at Honeywell in various roles and divisions for 40 years.  . She was the  Product Team Lead for Tactical Ring Laser Gyro in Honeywell's Aerospace Division.  She had supported multiple phases of the DARPA Atomic clock programs, resulting in  7 patents from her work. She was the  lead Process engineer in the successful transitions from design to production for both the Integrated Flight Management Unit (IFMU, IMU+GPS), and also the Stinger Missile Roll Frequency Sensor.

At Honeywell’s Solid State Electronics Division,  she was a Senior Design Methodology Engineer. She was in the MOS VLSI Design, as project lead for CMOS standard cell library development; and a CAD trainer for circuit simulation, logic & circuit design. 

• 17 US patents, 24 foreign patents 
• Professional  Masters,  and Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. 
• Honeywell 2015 Outstanding Engineer award
• Honeywell 2005 Aerospace Quest for Excellence Team award 
• Certified  Honeywell Six Sigma Blackbelt

Recently a historical  book and newspaper articles have come out about Honeywell's development of the Ring Laser Gyro written by James Lenz. Chris was a part of the design team in 3 of the  RLG sensor product lines and Lead production engineer for two of the RLG based products.  These were part of her 38 year career at Honeywell.  Below is a link to the StarTribune article  "Miracle on the Hudson" and the origins in Minneapolis.