Senior Vice President of Engineering and CTO Cox Communications, Inc.
Chris Bowick wrote to me recently - December, 2001 and, was very kind enough to share with us this update to his biography.
Chris is the author of the popular time-proven reference book "RF Circuit Design", which was originally published in 1982 and is now in its 13th printing, and he is the co-author of another book, "Introduction to Satellite TV". He also wrote a monthly column called "From the Headend," that was featured in CED Magazine for eight years. Chris has also authored numerous other articles and technical papers that have appeared in various publications and magazines through the years.
For fun, Chris is an avid pilot, and a FAA-certified flight instructor, and enjoys flying his own plane as often as he can.
Chris is also an Extra-Class Amateur Radio Operator (WD4C), and holds the FCC General Radiotelephone certificate.
Chris earned a M.B.A. from the University of Colorado and holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a past member of the National Board of Directors of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and a member of the CableLabs Technical Advisory Committee.
Currently Chris is Senior Vice President, Engineering & Chief Technical Officer, of Cox Communications, Inc. and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Cox's engineering department, including the development and deployment of telecommunications services, such as: wireline telephony, IP telephony, high-speed data and DOCSIS, digital video, multimedia and HFC networks.
Chris joined Cox in April of 1998 from Jones Intercable Inc., where he was Group Vice President / Technology & Chief Technical Officer.
Prior to joining Jones Intercable, Chris led the product-development effort at Scientific Atlanta's Transmission Systems Business Division as Vice President of Engineering, where he directed research and development in the Headend and Earthstation areas and created a start-up organization responsible for video compression research and development.
Before Scientific Atlanta, Chris served as a design engineer with Rockwell International, Collins Avionics Division, where he designed navigation and communications equipment for general-aviation aircraft. He also served as an assistant research engineer with Georgia Tech's engineering Experiment Station (now called the Georgia Tech Research Institute) in their Electromagnetics Lab.