Chriss joined ILM around 2002 and became an electrician on the two sequels for The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (both of which featured Anthony Zerbe). He was then a rigging electrician on Twisted (starring Ashley Judd, Leland Orser, and Titus Welliver), as a grip on xXx: State of the Union, and as a lighting balloon technician on Rent.