After 20 years serving in the United States Navy, Chris accepted a fellow veteran’s offer to joined Synexxus, a small defense company located just outside Washington, DC. As VP at a small company, Chris is tasked with everything from overseeing daily operations to obtaining new business. Synexxus is a major player in our military’s technology and Chris is on the front line.
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>> My name is Chris Dour. I am the Vice-President of Synexxus which is a small defense company in Arlington, Virginia, and we're building what the military has coined a "digital backbone," and it's to help bring in a number of different components on military ground vehicles. So we're -- our product is called the Electronic Keel, keel like the backbone of a boat, and it brings in all the different sensors, radios, cameras, weapon systems, where you can easily view it in the front seat of a military vehicle. Much like you might expect to see something in a cockpit of a plane where the pilot can easily see all the different sensors in his cockpit, we're trying to give a cockpit-like atmosphere into a ground vehicle, and we work a lot of the big vehicle manufacturers, AM General, Oshkosh, Navistar, companies that are building military vehicles, and we're putting our product inside those vehicles. I'm mostly filling a Chief of Operations role or COO role, and as the Vice-President of a small company, everybody wears a lot of different hats, so some days I'm doing HR-related work, some days I'm doing business relationships with other companies. We're working on contracts, we're working with the lawyers, or sometimes accounting work. So, for example, this morning I was just signing an agreement between a new company that we just -- we just had meetings with last week and we're just filling out the paperwork today.
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