He holds both a Bachelor and Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and an MBA (Management of Technology) also from UAHuntsville. His industry credits include 4 years as client programmer on the Wish MMO project with (now defunct) Mutable Realms as well as credits on both James Bond: From Russia With Love and The Godfather: The Game from Electronic Arts, and management and development of the Virtual Training System for DoD training/virtual-reality/marketing. He is currently an online game client developer (java+opengl) for Bit Trap Studios. He coordinates meetings for the Huntsville Chapter of the IGDA (Independant Game Developers Association). Nathan is also an Eagle Scout, and a National Merit Scholar.