Dr. Chipley has over 30 years of consulting experience in the areas of Program and Project Management, Cybersecurity, Energy and Environmental (LEED, Energy Star, and Carbon Footprint); Critical Infrastructure Protection and Analysis; Building Information Modeling (BIM) Technology; Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), and Emergency Management/Disaster Recovery.  Dr. Chipley served 24 years as a Civil Engineer in the US Air Force and has been consulting since 2001.

He is a former adjunct faculty member at George Mason University where he taught the Infrastructure Security Engineering, Building Security, and Building Information Modeling courses.

Dr. Chipley is the principal author of the FEMA 426 Reference Manual to Mitigate Buildings Against Terrorist Attacks, FEMA 453 Design Guidance for Multi-Hazard Shelters; co-author of the 427, 428, 429 and 452 FEMA risk mitigation series publications, developed and taught the FEMA E155 Building Security course, and a team member that developed the Integrated Rapid Visualization (IRVS) tool.