Chris was raised in Fresno, California and has undergraduate/graduate degrees from UC Berkeley/Cal Poly. Now retired, his work experience has been real estate oriented, initially working with a development company on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. This was followed by a brief stint with a Bay Area engineering firm conducting environmental impact reports. Chris has lived in San Luis Obispo County since 1975, where he pursued a 40+ year long career in real estate appraisal, first with Bank of America, followed by employment with a fee appraisal business in Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo. He obtained a MAI professional designation from the Appraisal Institute in 1988. He launched his own appraisal firm in 1992 and worked on a multitude of assignments in commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential development properties.