Chris Roth

Back in 1992, Chris tossed his Mechanical Engineering degree in the trash and went to work for Visio, taking the gamble that smart graphics, computers, and programming would be more exciting than enthalpy, "head-loss", and F=ma.

Being visually oriented, good with computers and math, and a hater of words in general, the fit was natural. Chris was one of the original SmartShape developers, where he spent four years creating thousands of SmartShapes, hundreds of stencils and templates, and tens of automation add-ons.

He threw off the shackles imposed by Bug Database to join Visio's Technical Evangelism Corp. 

In his spare time, Chris enjoys other non-textual pursuits such as playing/watching baseball, glass blowing, learning phrases in foreign languages, and tacking personal travel onto the end of business trips.