He recieved his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin with a focus on retargeting motion capture data, moved to the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies to develop novel image-based lighting and facial animation techniques, and later found himself at Tweak Films as a Senior Technical Director working on specialized shots in films such as "Superman" and "Spiderman 3." His most recent work involves the practical implementation of fur, making image based lighting work for traditional lighters, development of the in-house matchmove camera solver, and the creation of an efficient visual effects pipeline to tie it all together.