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Christopher T Hood Dipl
Arch. Oxford, RIBA
Christopher T
Hood is a registered Architect in the United Kingdom and works for
Hewlett Packard. He is based in North Carolina where he is
responsible for program management of the “HP WorkPlace”-an
initiative designed to integrate and deliver space, technology,
collaboration, and services solutions into a single effective
package which best supports the way people work.
He has been
very active in studying the impact of reengineering initiatives and
developing workplace solutions that compliment changes in the
business environment. His involvement in this field is
fundamentally practical, and has been involved in literally
hundreds of projects conceived to develop a better fit between the
evolving patterns of work and the environments which best support
them. In this spirit, frustrated with the lack of furniture
products that met these evolving needs, he designed his own
furniture system and is the author of a US patent for a unique
design which supports the twin goals of flexibility and technology
integration.
Chris has
enthusiastically exchanged ideas with others through his numerous
speaking engagements at conferences and symposiums across the
world. These include addressing the “Workplace Forum” in Stockholm,
IFMA World Congress in Melbourne, Australia and New Orleans,
Future/ Build, NEOCON in Chicago, ISFE in Boston, IDRC in
Orlando, Corenet Global in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Orlando,
Washington and “Telecommuting and the Virtual Office” in
Singapore. He has also appeared on radio and TV in discussing
Workplace change.
Currently he
is one of the three individuals tasked with building the “Workplace
Community” within Corenet Global.
He has been
with HP, and previously Compaq, and Digital Equipment, for over 27
years and has very deep international experience, having been
involved in projects in more than 20 different countries. Prior to
joining Digital, Chris worked for Business Design Group in Chicago,
Higgins and Root in Los Gatos, California and for Skidmore, Owings
and Merrill in San Francisco. He trained as an Architect at
the Oxford School of Architecture where he won the final year
design prize for an International Yachting Center for the United
Kingdom in association with Mike Lilly, who went on to become a
very successful practicing Architect.
He was born
in 1951 and attended Bromsgrove School in Worcestershire, England.
He now splits his time in Hertford , North Carolina. His hobbies
include gardening, sailing, exploring, travel and watching, playing
and coaching sports of all kinds. Recently he climbed Mount
Kilimanjaro with his two children.
Hertford,
North
Carolina
March
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