Chris Puente was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1980 and currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. He received his BA from Columbia College Chicago in 2009. His work in sound recording primarily revolves around documentary production and he has been the production sound mixer on numerous documentaries, reality TV shows, corporate videos, and short films. In his spare time, Chris enjoys eating pancakes, cooking dinner, going on adventures with his girlfriend and her dog, making fun stuffed animals out of socks, making videos and sound pieces, and letting his cat, Burt Reynolds, make love to his sweaters.