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- Name: Christopher
- Surname: Allen
- Location: Berkeley, CA
- About Me: Christopher Allen is a long-time entrepreneur, technologist, producer, game designer, and educator whose many ventures center on tools for collaboration & trust, and the facilitation of online communities. As the founder of Consensus Development, Christopher helped develop SSL with Netscape, and is co-author of the IETF TLS internet-draft that is now at the heart of all secure commerce on the World Wide Web. More recently Christopher has been a startup advisor, an executive coach, founded a multiplayer online game company, and consults for Fortune 500 companies on social web strategy. Christopher currently is co-founder and CTO of www.ReOrientMedia.com whose mission is to create tools that allow people to communicate effectively about complexity. There he leads the product team creating a new platform for non-linear media for the iPad and Mac called www.InfinitePDFApp.com. Since 2003 Christopher has been sharing his experience at his blog www.LifeWithAlacrity.com, where he discusses a variety of topics including entrepreneuring, the social web, social media, social software, blogging, groupware, collaboration, group dynamics, rating & ranking systems, online communities, facilitation, internet security, trust, privacy, iOS development, interface design, online game design, and internet tools. Christopher is a member of the Associate Faculty and is Executive in Residence in the MBA for Sustainable Systems program at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute @ Pinchot University for the Common Good. There he teaches the classes "Using the Social Web for Social Change", "Digital Influence" and is part of the faculty team that designed a totally integrated first-year sustainable business curriculum. He is also working on establishing standards for digital content, ebooks, flipped classroom, online teaching platforms, and is creating a 21st-century cognitive and social pedagogy for hybrid higher education. Christopher is co-author of "iOS in Action: Introduction to iPhone and iPad Development", a forthcoming book on Cooperative Game Design, is co-founder and keynote speaker of www.iOSDevCamp.org where he moderates the popular Hackathon Contest, and has produced seven iOS games at www.rpg.net/iphone.
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