Chris Bates

Chris Bates is an experienced professional in retail systems and technical consulting, currently serving as the Director of Retail Systems at Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Company, Inc. since November 2010, previously holding the position of Retail Systems Specialist. Prior to this role, Chris was the Owner of Video Fix from May 2009 to November 2010 and worked as a Technical Consultant for SeeTheLake.net, where a video mapping project was engineered to link GPS coordinates with recorded video. Additionally, Chris spent over a decade at Custom Supply, starting as a Sales Consultant and advancing to Sales Engineer, where responsibilities included designing, installing, and servicing professional video systems while training end users. Chris holds a degree from Southeastern University, attended from 1985 to 1989.