Rodger is a retired police officer and firefighter / emergency medical technician and after working in the emergency services for 22 years, he has taken a faculty position at UVU. He is an alumnus of Saybrook University, trained in descriptive phenomenological psychological research by Amedeo Giorgi, specialising in researching the lived-experiences of emergency responders and other related topics. He also teach psychology in the College of Doctoral Studies at Grand Canyon University and is a dissertation committee chair.