Has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Information Systems and worked as a software engineer for 10 years.
Is legally blind and suffers from a degenerative retinal disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa which leads to irreversible vision loss.
Was a semi-finalist (Top 100 script out of 4000 submissions) in season three of Project Greenlight (2001) with his crime-thriller script Dead Peasants.