Christopher Yang
Vice President - Engineering at Corporate Travel Management
Christopher Yang is no stranger to the importance of leadership and inspiration. As Vice President of Engineering at Corporate Travel Management, Christopher is responsible for overseeing a highly-skilled group of technical professionals.
A professional with no shortage of experience in technology, Christopher is passionate about training future generations in technology, leadership and project management. With four degrees from the University of Southern California, Christopher draws on his vast amount of experience in education to help him exceed in both the areas of technology and project management.
Christopher Yang also has a number of key certifications, including Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Product Manager (CPM), Professional Agile Leadership (PAL) and ITIL.
Christopher Yang is also the mind behind the following five patents: Method and System for Transferring User Settings to Another User Receiving Device Using a User Device (US10063924, Issued August 28, 2018); Systems and Methods for Triggering User Interfaces for Product and/or Service Transactions via Using Receiving Devices and Mobile Devices (US10051340, Issued August 14, 2018); Methods for Determining Localized Outages and Distributed Signal Verification of Set-top Boxes (US9769471, Issued September 19, 2017); Systems and Methods for Controlling Purchasing and/or Reauthorization to Access Content Using Quick Response Code and Text Messages (US9693083, Issued June 27, 2017); Systems and Methods for Immersive Viewing Experience (US9271048, Issued February 23, 2016);
In addition to his professional career, Christopher is also a Part-Time Instructor at the UCLA in the Department of Engineering and Technology. He is also a keynote speaker, something he enjoys doing in an effort to hone his love for communication and to foster a future generation's passions and talents.