 He worked full-time as a professor at USC 2004-2011.At USC Chris co-founded the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab and was co-author of the book "Game Design Workshop" which is used at many of the over 700 college game programs around the world.He served as a thesis advisor to Jenova Chen and the project fl0w which began as Chen's MFA thesis and was the basis for the game developer thatgamecompany which has won multiple Game of the Year awards in industry.