Christopher
Harrell, RCDD
Christopher Harrell, RCDD
Senior Technical Designer
Jacobs Engineering
Christopher Harrell, RCDD, was born in Marshall, Texas, but spent much of his childhood in Jefferson, Texas and graduated high school from Pine Tree High School in Longview, Texas. He is a husband, a father and a grandfather with five children and eight grandchildren. Chris’s career started in 1976 as an electrician’s helper in a power generating facility and after a short stay at Kilgore College (1978-1979), he decided to enter the electrical trade full time. Although he never attended a formal apprenticeship program, Chris bought his first guide to the National Electrical Code in 1980 and continued to purchase new NEC® editions every three years. Having studied his trade consistently in Texas for over 15 years, he decided to move to Nashville, Tennessee, to continue his career as an electrician. Then, in 1994 Chris had the opportunity to be a part of a project involving Ethernet over twisted pair. And over the next 7 years, he assisted in building a low-voltage cabling division for a local electrical contractor. During that time, he was trained in optical fiber at the AT and T facility outside of Atlanta and eventually trained in NORDX (now Belden). His design career started by successfully passing the RCDD credential exam. Over his 18-year career he has been fortunate to have worked in: Healthcare; K-12 education; college/universities; Internet service providers; aerospace facilities; Department of Defense; and enterprise data centers. During those times Chris had the opportunities to work alongside some of the best BICSI professionals.
Chris has been an active member of BICSI since 1999 and joined the Codes Committee (now a workgroup to the Standards Committee) in 2005. In 2023, he accepted the chairmanship of the Codes Workgroup. Additionally, he is the Chairman of the Emerging Professionals and Student Workgroup.
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