Christopher Jackson

Chris Jackson is a reliability engineer and management consultant. He is the director of Acuitas Reliability (www.acuitas.com) which helps clients achieve organizational value (not just compliance) through reliability engineering. He has worked in a lot of interesting and different places throughout his career starting off with 17 years in the Australian Army before retiring as a lieutenant colonel. During this time he did things like serve in the 2nd Commando Regiment and as the Senior Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) Engineer. After that, he was the inaugural director of UCLA's Center for Reliability and Resilience Engineering (CRRE) and the Chief Operating Officer of UCLA's Center for the Safety and Reliability of Autonomous Systems (SARAS). Chris was also the Senior Reliability Engineer for General Dynamics - Land Systems in Canada.

But he is doing what he really likes now, and that is helping lots of different organizations. He is now a well known (online) reliability engineering educator, author and management 'helper' focusing on working out what 'vital few' things each organization needs to do to generate value from reliability engineering.