Contract Services
Christopher Amurao is a Senior Software Engineer at Contract Services, with experience spanning roles as a software developer and engineer since April 2019. Prior to this, Christopher served as a Web Editor, Copy Editor, and Journalist at Citrus College Clarion from August 2016 to June 2017, managing the website's content and coding while also covering local government, crime, and sports. Additionally, Christopher worked as a Science Coach at Don Antonio Lugo High School, delivering lectures on ecology and nuclear physics. Earlier experience includes a research assistant position at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, where Christopher conducted biopharmaceutical experiments under the direction of Principal Investigator Kathleen Rodgers. Christopher holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from UC Santa Barbara and is currently pursuing additional studies at Cerritos College in EMT, communications, journalism, and photography.
Contract Services
In the mid-1960s, the major film studios, in negotiations with Hollywood’s unions, founded the nonprofit Contract Services. Our purpose is to carry out the required provisions of the collective bargaining agreements between the film and television industry’s West Coast Studio Local Unions and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which govern the employment conditions of a freelance union workforce of approximately 50,000 people in the greater Los Angeles area. We do this through administering apprenticeship training and safety programs, maintaining seniority rosters, and implementing other industry-wide services.