Kris, a native of Rutherfordton, NC, was one of the original founders of New Media Campaigns and guides the technical direction and process for the company. Kris's software has been used to manage the online presence and web marketing of organizations ranging from public corporations national non-profits, serving millions of page views each year.

Kris is the architect of the popular open source PHP Framework, Recess. The framework has been used by developers around the world to build applications; additionally, there are active contributors located around the world, continuing to enhance and expand the code base. Kris and his team used the Recess Framework when building NMC's newest CMS, HiFi.

Outside of NMC, Kris is an active member of the tech community. From continuing to contribute Recess to attending tech conferences around the country, Kris is always working with new developers and scouting for the next big things in web development.

Kris has been developing software commercially for over a decade and worked at Microsoft before returning to NMC to spearhead the development of Recess and HiFi. Kris is a graduate with Honors of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Computer Science, where he was recognized as the SAS Charles Dunham Scholar (“best and brightest”) by the faculty. After UNC, Kris earned a Masters in Computer Science from Brown University in just one year.