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Jon E. Christner – A Personal History:

Jon Christner is an experienced professional whose career has spanned four decades of combined military, industrial, commercial, and non-profit pursuits. He grew up just north of St. Louis along the Mississippi River where his lifelong interest in outdoors and athletics was first formed. Lettering in three different sports in high school, Jon was also an International Karting Federation season points champion, local 4H chapter president, Scout, hunter, trapper, and fisherman.

His military career spanned six years serving in the 1st Battalion (RANGER), 75th Infantry and the 82nd Airborne Division. As a trained infantryman, Jon became a sniper, a jumpmaster, and was also a member of the 82nd Abn Div’s boxing team. A distinguished graduate of the XVIII Abn Corps’ NCO Academy and Division Trooper of the Month, Jon received numerous awards and special appointments throughout his six years before being honorably discharged.

Upon leaving the service Jon completed his education for a BS in Industrial Technology and worked in industry for over a decade serving in every capacity from Jr. Industrial Engineer to VP of Manufacturing and most positions in between. Most of the work was in the fields of automotive components manufacturing and consumer electronics with a special focus on assembly, molding, and metal fabrication. Jon became a Certified Manufacturing Engineer, Competent Toastmaster, and was founding member of two chapters for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Jon then started his consulting practice that initially focused on product design for manufacture and process design. The practice prospered for almost a decade and over time became more personal and organizationally focused as it became an industrial training enterprise teaching such topics as Continuous Process Improvement, Creative Problem Solving, and Single Minute Exchange of Dies using the revolutionary project-oriented training approach. The practice also extended into organizational turnarounds of financially failing businesses and even a few non-profits that he successfully restored to solvency.

Troubleshooter and business ethicist, Jon enjoys semi-retirement as a contributing writer to this site and others, blogging, and serving as chaplain to a non-profit providing support and assistance to professionals in mid-career transition. Jon continues to selectively take on occasional projects requiring his depth and breadth of experience as well as his creative problem solving abilities.