Chris Bischoff is an accomplished Senior Manager for Core Engineering at Republic Services, bringing over nine years of dedicated service to the role. With a robust background in IT infrastructure management and engineering, Chris is responsible for overseeing the seamless daily operations and delivery of enterprise-class data centers, storage solutions, networking, computing systems, and Teams Collaboration services encompassing voice, video, and mobile device management (MDM). 

Through strategic leadership and a commitment to excellence, Chris ensures that Republic Services remains at the forefront of technological innovation, driving efficiency and productivity across the organization.

They have successfully driven the enterprise-wide implementation of Microsoft Teams Collaboration rooms, making a significant transition away from Cisco Telepresence to an integrated MS Teams environment that has included voice.  This multi-year strategy has modernized our enterprise collaboration platform and has transformed how their company communicates.

Uniquely, in their approach, they have blended technical skillsets across IT, Facilities, and AV integrators to develop a committed Collaboration Team.  With this approach, we have created a strategic vision to drive operational excellence, combining emerging technologies with customer expectations to enhance collaboration capabilities across their organization.

They have developed a deployment standard for AV and Team Collaboration that works at scale.  Their success in delivering Team Collaboration, while meeting customer expectations has been vital to their success and underscores the value of delivering collaboration that needs of the organization.