Chief Creative Officer, The Electric Sheep Company
Greater New York City Area
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- Chief Creative Officer at The Electric Sheep Company
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- Producer at The Electric Sheep Company
- Co-Founder, Managing Partner at Future Prototype
- Reasercher at Institute for Security Technology Studies
- Education
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- State University of New York at Albany
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Chris Carella’s Summary
Chris Carella is the Chief Creative Officer at The Electric Sheep Company. He has received a Technical Emmy Award for his work on the L Word in Second Life project and was a producer on the Emmy Award winning Virtual Laguna Beach. Chris has a design role on most of The Electric Sheep Company projects. Chris teaches a course in applications of Virtual Worlds at Teacher’s College, Columbia University with Professor Charles K. Kinzer.
Outside of virtual worlds, his interests include augmented reality, serious games, social software and ubiquitous computing.
Chris Carella’s Specialties:
Virtual Worlds, MMO's, Games, Social Media, Interactive
Chris Carella’s Experience
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Chief Creative Officer
The Electric Sheep Company
(Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
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Producer
The Electric Sheep Company
(Internet industry)
January 2006 — January 2007 (1 year 1 month)
The first producer at The Electric Sheep Company. I design and manage Virtual World experience and projects. I received a technical emmy in this role for my work on Showtime's The L Word in Second Life and was also part of the project team that won a technical emmy for Virtual Laguna Beach.
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Co-Founder, Managing Partner
Future Prototype
(Computer Games industry)
July 2005 — January 2006 (7 months)
I was Co-Founder and managing partner of Future Prototype, a Metaverse Consulting Company. Future Prototype joined The Electric Sheep Company in January 2006.
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Reasercher
Institute for Security Technology Studies
(Internet industry)
2001 — 2005 (4 years )
Chris Carella’s Education
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State University of New York at Albany
BA , Computer Science
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Chris Carella’s Groups:
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Microtransactions & Virtual Goods
Chris Carella’s Honors:
Awarded a Technical Emmy in the category of "Outstanding achievement in advanced media technology for best use of commercial advertising on standalone broadband devices" during the 59th Technical and Engineering Emmy Awards.
Was the producer in charge of "web page design and execution, event creation and management, design and production of “New Laguna,” creation and integration of sponsor content/program" for Virtual Laguna Beach which received a Technical Emmy in the category of "Outstanding achievement in advanced media technology for creation of nontraditional programs or platforms"
