After graduating from university, he entered and won the Norman Lear Playwriting award sponsored by Columbia Pictures Television which got him a $25,000 cash gift and meetings with Columbia's top television producers
Broke into television as a story editor on the police crime drama television series Nash Bridges in 1997
Founded and owns the television production company MiddKid Productions
Named his company MiddKid Productions after his alma mater Middlebury College
Did uncredited revisions on the script for the 2003 action film SWAT