Chris Taylor Biography | Winners’ Circle Training Centers

Educator Biography

Chris Taylor
Instructor

Chris Taylor
Owner, Restoration Academy
www.restorationacademyintl.com

SCRT Board of Directors
IICRC® Instructor

Instructs:

IICRC® WRT, ASD, CCT & CEC’s
IICRC® CMT, UFT, LCT & CEC’s

Chris Taylor has been involved in the cleaning and restoration industry since the early 1980’s. He has worked for privately owned companies, franchises, and also served as a trainer and supervisor before being promoted to Director of Education for Stanley Steemer International. As the Director of Education, Chris developed a new collegiatestyle training system including computer based training, certification classes, and a career development path for technicians to take them from new hires to master technicians. He also initiated and facilitated the company�s transformation from offering only water extraction services to providing water damage restoration according to industry standards. Chris designed, built and implemented their first ASD training facility in Ohio and is consulting with them on their second facility in Florida as well as continuing to teach for them. Over the course of his career, Chris has trained thousands of students winning awards for his efforts in helping technicians and management to raise their level of productivity and professionalism.

Chris recently resigned from Stanley Steemer to join the family businesses and build a new training facility in the western United States near Las Vegas, NV. The new facility will offer all cleaning and restoration industry certifications as well as industry related training and seminars. The four family based companies include a school (Restoration Academy), an equipment rental company (Drying Technologies Intl.), a commercial loss partnering and support company (Restoration Professionals Inc.), and an internet business solutions and connectivity company (Jade Inc.).

Chris serves on multiply committees and boards including the IICRC S500 Standards Committee and SCRT Board of Directors. He is the IICRC Applied Structural Drying (ASD) Technical Advisory Chairman and the Co-Chairman for the new IICRC Commercial Drying Specialist (CDS) certification course. He holds MTC, MSR, MWR, and WLS designations and is an IICRC Approved Instructor in the categories of WRT, ASD, CCT, CMT, UFT, and LCT.

Chris is blessed with two wonderful children and a supportive wife, which gives him the never ending drive to continue his quest for excellence. His years of training and public speaking experience, coupled with vast field experience as everything from a cleaning technician to a CAT site administrator for large commercial water losses has given him a well rounded ability to educate his students to become better and more efficient in their skill sets. As a technician, he received many awards for sales and customer service which led to a very lucrative income. Chris includes those insights and customer service skills into his classes to give the students a greater chance of success for themselves and the companies they work for.