Duane attended the San Diego Mesa college. He started around 1993 working for Premier Technology's Gottileb pinball machines. After that, he moved on to FASA Interactive and composed audio there. Later, he worked for Microsoft Game Studios, also creating original music and sound effects. He eventually opened up DDMusic LLC as a freelance musician. Duane currently lives in Reno, Nevada and works for IGT, one of the world's leading slot machine developers, still designing music and sound effects for their slot machines. Besides video game music, Duane has also performed in live bands.