Industry Biography

Chris volunteered for work force reduction (early retirement - TBD) in 2020 after 40 years at Honeywell. She was the  Product Team Lead for Tactical Ring Laser Gyro  in the Honeywell Aerospace Division.  She had supported multiple phases of the DARPA Atomic clock programs, resulting in  7 patents from her work. Earlier in her career she was the  lead Process engineer in the successful transitions from design to production for both the Integrated Flight Management Unit (IMU+GPS), and also the Stinger 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.