Chris Floyd has distinguished himself as the principal benchmark developer for the SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark. He was responsible for overseeing the adaptation of the CloudPerf test framework to the SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 harness. He was also key in designing the benchmark's synthetic departmental workloads and porting HammerDB. Chris developed many of the necessary control and monitoring scripts needed for the benchmark. Using his deep understanding of the low-level details of the benchmark's architecture, he authored the benchmark's design guide and tested all the kit builds of the benchmark on VMware.