Chris is the Vice President of Revenue Products Engineering (RPE) for Oracle's Systems business unit. Although based out of the UK, Chris claims no time zone. He spends a significant portion of his time visiting customers and partners to help them understand Systems' products and engineering strategy. That combined with the global responsibility of his organization, keeps him on the move. RPE consists of some 300 engineers and is primarily focused on providing sustaining engineering for products including Solaris, Solaris Cluster, SAM/QFS, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, and the ZS Storage Appliance. The team also provides the engineering support for Engineered Systems such as Solaris Exadata and SPARC SuperCluster. Chris joined Sun in 1999, becoming part of Oracle with the acquisition of Sun. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry including leading large organizations in the software engineering of operating systems and application software for military use. He has a BSc (HONS) degree in Computing Science from Staffordshire University.