He was an early adopter of the computer and claims to have become a confirmed life-long geek at the age of 11 when hid grandfather purchased him his first computer, an Atari 400. He's been programming ever since. He was introduced to gaming via Dungeons and Dragons around the same time by his brother and cousin. He spent the next 20 years working various jobs, generally technical or electronic in nature, or running his own businesses.

It wasn't until about 1998 that the convergence of programming, gaming, and businesses merged with the release of the original GRiP (Generic Roleplaying for Internet Players). That ultimate resulted in his meeting and ultimate working relationship with the grandfather of science-fiction roleplaying and creator of Traveller, Marc W Miller. That relationship resulted in the release of GRiP: Traveller in 2000 and finally an eight year run as an official Traveller licensee and the publishing of Traveller20.

Now the circle is complete and he has returned to what started it all and his original preference, GRiP4.