He graduated cum laude from Thomas Edison State College with a BS in Applied Science and Technology and received the Arnold Fletcher Award. He has developed software solutions and games within the Visual Studio, Xcode and Xamarin environments using a variety of languages including C++, C, Objective-C, C#, Java, Python, and Visual Basic. These skills were developed while working at Curse, Inc., Intergraph, CoosaValley Technologies, LLC, and as a freelance game developer.