Biography
During the first 10 years of his life, Christopher Erhardt lived in Seattle, Washington, Detroit, Michigan, Riverside, California and Arcadia, California. He received a bachelors of science from the University of San Francisco, did graduate studies in Psychology at Harvard University and acquired his Masters degree in business from Capella University. In 2008 he completed his Doctoral dissertation on video game players demographic considerations. Currently Dr. Erhardt has over 19 years experience in the Interactive Media Industry, where in he was responsible for the production, design and product management of over 22 titles with such publishers as Infocom, Activision, Electronic Arts, Infogrames, and Ocean Software of America.
Christopher Erhardt first started working at an early age, putting himself through his undergraduate degree by odd jobs that ranged from magician to fur currier to line chef. In the early 80's he was a product planner for companies such as Teledyne and other TEMPEST secured, MIS-based programming and project management tasks. He moved into the game industry in 1987 when Infocom requested that his assistance in transitioning them from text-only games into graphical titles, leveraging his education in adolescent psychology to help them develop more compelling titles.
Christopher Erhardt was the President of ISOG based at Hyderabad, India till June 2009.
In December 2010, it was announced that Dr. Christopher Erhardt would be the head of the new Seattle branch of the Academy of Interactive Entertainment where they offer certificate programs and continuing education courses in digital media, game development, special effects and film production.
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