Chris Puente, PMP, CSM

Chris Puente, PMP, CSM has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry. In 2018, they began working at Aravo Solutions - Third-Party Risk Management as a Program Director and Project Manager. Prior to this, they worked at Town of Cary as a Technology Project Manager in 2017 and at Cisco as a Technical Project Manager (Contract) in 2016. In 2016, Chris also worked at SciQuest as a SaaS Implementation Project Manager. From 2012 to 2016, they worked at BioNetwork as a Project Manager and at Gaston College as a Project Manager. In 2012, they worked at Red Storm Entertainment as a Quality Assurance Analyst and at Vicious Cycle Software as a Producer (Project Manager) in 2008. Chris started their career in the industry in 2007 at Luxoflux as an Associate Producer and at Treyarch as an Associate Producer in 2005.

Chris Puente holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, which they obtained from 1996 to 2001. Prior to that, they attended Santa Barbara City College from 1996 to 1998. Chris also attended UC Santa Barbara and Wake Technical Community College, but did not obtain any degrees from either institution. In 2018, they obtained a Certified Scrum Master certification from the Scrum Alliance and is currently in the process of obtaining a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute.