Christopher Lawrence Email & Phone Number

El Segundo, California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

Provide production leadership, game design, and creative direction.Manage contract and SOW negotiations, P&L, budget, project planning, client relationships, game design, schedules, hiring, mentoring, and evaluation. Reputation for staying on-time and on-budget.Shipped over twenty interactives for government and commercial clientsProduced and designed site-based, PC, mobile, XR, location-based, and tabletop interactive experiences for diverse audiencesProduced iOS/Android mobile free-to-play augmented reality marketing app for Univision in five of their major marketsManaged multi-million-dollar budgetsCreated site-based interactive experience for museum hosting 2.4 million visitors per yearDeveloped mixed reality simulation used to train ~100,000 Coalition warfightersAdvised US Department of Defense on military use of MMOsLectured on production and design at trade shows and seminars

Los Angeles, California, United States

Lead the Game Design Workshop lab for graduate and undergraduate studentsTeach principles of game design and developmentInstruct via lectures, discussions, and hands-on projects (i.e. making lots of games!)

Santa Monica, Ca

Led design team for PC and console games. Performed key management roles including serving as primary point of contact for the company during its collaboration with the U.S. Army. • Designed first-in-class Xbox real-time tactical game for US Army• Coordinated design, programming, and art teams• Determined and maintained scheduling milestones• Managed internal testing, troubleshooting, and project feedback• Gained familiarity with animation, level design, and engineering pipelines• Conducted employee evaluations and reviews• Mentored game design team• Coordinated submission of promotional materials to media

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Designed roleplaying and strategy games for tabletop and PC. Worked on a dozen projects in a dynamic environment.• Led game design process for tabletop roleplaying game andsupporting product line• Crafted worldbuilding and narrative content for roleplaying game• Staff Game Designer and playtester for tabletop and PC games• Evaluated artists for staff and contract work• Coordinated playtest sessions, logged results and bug reports as internal QA lead for PC action game• Wrote promotional material for magazine and web publication