Christopher Winters
Principal Art Director at Electronic Arts (EA)
Elk Grove, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Winters is a Principal Art Director with over 25 years of experience leading art across triple-A, mobile, MMO, and cinematic game projects, currently shaping visual strategy at Electronic Arts and the hit mobile title Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. He excels at balancing creative excellence with production realities, having managed teams of 10–60 across independent and large studio environments and delivered top-grossing and award-winning titles for Disney, Lucasfilm, Tencent, and EA. Comfortable communicating across art, engineering, production, and executive stakeholders, he builds processes and teams that scale creative vision into live operations and sustained commercial success. His background in industrial and graphic design informs a pragmatic, design-driven approach to art direction and technical art integration. Less obvious: he has hands-on experience bridging art and backend systems, contributing to asynchronous server frameworks early in his GitHub work that reflect an interest in tooling and pipeline automation. Based in Elk Grove, CA, Christopher combines a studio-wide strategic perspective with day-to-day craft leadership that keeps teams motivated and focused.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Industrial Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Industrial Design at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
asynchronous10
swoole10
http10
php10
coroutines10
async10
php-framework9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Tencent/tsf
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
coroutine and Swoole based php server framework in tencent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 5 PRs, 33 pushes in 22 days
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the development of a PHP server framework based on coroutines and Swoole. Their work includes the creation of an asynchronous HTTP client with features such as setting cookies, authorization, and handling redirects. They also implemented a coroutine scheduler and integrated it with client functionalities, demonstrating a focus on asynchronous programming within the framework. Further contributions involved setting up example applications.
php-basedphptencentswooleserver-framework
winterswang/footprints
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:56 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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