 After graduating from the California Institute of the Arts School of Film/Video, he decided he wanted to go into directing pornography and introduced himself to pornographic film director Veronica Hart.Hart put him in touch with the adult video company VCA Pictures, who signed him as a director in 2004.In 2006, after producing several features for VCA, McKai was signed by Vivid to head a new imprint of theirs called VividAlt.