Christopher Beatty is a quality assurance engineer with Innovative Design Inc., which provides support for the U.S. International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project at ORNL. He has also served as a senior systems engineer on the project.
Before that he was employed with Jacobs Technology as a team lead for the Risk Management and Systems Engineering Planning Team and the System Integration Functional Analysis Team for NASA in Huntsville, Ala.. He has also worked with the U.S. Space Army and Missile Defense Command in Huntsville and the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma, Tenn.
Christopher received a master’s in physics from Clark Atlanta University and a bachelor’s in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the current president of the local chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers and a member of 100 Black Men of America, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Project Management Institute, and the International Council of Systems Engineers. He is a resident of Knoxville.