(You can see a professional bio here. The one below contains the pointless personal details.) I was born in 1975 in Los Angeles, the second of four children. I spent eight years at a Catholic elementary school then attended an all-boys Jesuit prep school. Then as now, I had tons of hobbies and was very entrepreneurial, which is probably why I didn't have a girlfriend until I turned 20. In high school, I was both geeky and artistic. Besides programming video games, I edited the school newspaper, was active in debate and theater, and started a math club to study Chaos Theory. I also played drums in a garage band and took every fine arts course I could, including ceramics, dark-room photography, and acting. I spent a month each summer travelling with my family or the Boy Scouts. A few weeks into my first semester of college, I dropped out to help start a new game company. I may have skipped over a key transition period into adulthood, but at 18, I had a sports car, a great apartment in San Francisco, and an awesome job, so it seemed to work out alright. I worked long hours but had disposable income, so I wanted my free time to be as exciting as possible. So I spent my weekends flying Cessnas or skydiving or taking short getaways with my first girlfriend Nicole. Five years and two game companies later, I decided it was time to try something new. So I moved to New York and went back to college. This time I studied only liberal arts and avoided anything resembling math, science, or computers. Being a little older and more confident made college hugely rewarding and fun. I took six or seven courses at a time, learned to scuba dive and swing dance, and travelled to tropic countries with my second girlfriend Maria. I graduated three years later and started climbing my way up New York's indie film ladder. I lived with three girls in a small apartment in the West Village, and we hosted spaghetti and poker on Wednesday nights and threw big themed parties every couple months. Then in September 2002, I got hired to assist a well-known director, so I moved back to LA and started working on bigger films. Actually, the director lives on a large beefalo ranch in Wyoming, so I spent the next four months commuting between LA & Sheridan every few days on his private plane. After settling into LA, I dated a girl named Tabitha for a few years, and am still good friends with all three exes. In 2007, I met Molly Bennett working on a movie in New York. We spent a month driving across country and have since worked on a number of film projects together. On November 11, 2008, we got engaged on the beach in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. On September 19, 2009, we got married at her family's cottage on the Chesapeake Bay in Deltaville, Virginia. We live in Santa Monica with our cat, Giza.