Christopher Hield has worked in both the information technology industry and in academia throughout his career, bringing his industry experience to students in the courses he has taught, which include courses in general software engineering, object-oriented software design, development, and testing, mobile application development, and project management at DePaul University, Northwestern University, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Christopher Hield was most recently the Director of Application Development at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, where he provided leadership, guidance, and coaching to the application development team in the implementation of a variety of software development projects including the Shedd Aquarium website, ticketing kiosks, mobile application, and several guest-facing display applications.
Before that, he was the Director of Software Development & Testing at Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), where he and his team were responsible for the development & testing of CBOEdirect, CBOE's multi-tiered, serviced-based electronic financial trading system.
Before joining CBOE, Christopher was a Senior Software Engineer and Business Consultant with the Marketing, Systems and Development Division (MSD) of Hitachi Computer Products America. There he was involved in the design and development of object-based data mining and data exploration tools for the healthcare industry.
Prior to his position at Hitachi, Christopher was a with the Decision and Information Sciences Division at the Argonne National Laboratory, where he served as Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead in the Information Systems Section, developing object-based information systems, as well as object-oriented frameworks to support distributed, multidisciplinary modeling, simulation, and visualization applications.
Research Area
Software Engineering, Information Systems
Specific Research Area
Object Oriented Analysis, Modeling, Design & Development, Java, Software Testing, Software Project Management, Data Structures, Mobile Application Development