Christopher Patterson serves as the AVP of Platform Engineering at Marriott Vacations Worldwide, where responsibilities include empowering agile business delivery through DevOps best practices and leading a team of platform engineers. Prior to this role, Christopher held the position of Senior Information Technology Architect at Interval International, focusing on automation with Ansible and managing middleware infrastructure. Previous experience also includes roles at Cox Communications as a Senior J2EE Systems Administrator and at LexisNexis in various positions, including Platform Services Senior Systems Engineer III, where skills in standardizing application system infrastructure and providing best practices were developed. Christopher holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.