Biography

Earned a Juris Doctor degree from the SCALE accelerated program at Southwestern University School of Law and a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from Arizona State University.

In 2008, volunteered with the Israel Defense Forces and served in logistics, first stationed on a 101st Battalion Paratrooper combat outpost on the Lebanon border, then on a Home Front Command base in Central Israel. In 2010, re-upped with the IDF, first stationed on an Armored/Tank Division base on the West Bank, then on a Medical base near Tel Aviv.

Upon graduation from law school, was offered a Field Agent position in Central America by the CIA's Directorate of Operations.

Spent several years studying Boxing, Shotokan Karate, Shorin-Ryu Okinawan Karate, Chang Moo Kwan Taekwondo, and traditional Wing Chun Gung Fu. At 17, was offered a scholarship to the Kukkiwon Taekwondo University in Seoul, Korea, but passed on it in order to attend the University of Washington. Was accepted as a student of a revolutionary, hybrid fighting style known as Jun Fan Gung Fu, later renamed as Jeet Kune Do, in Bruce Lee's "underground" school located in the basement of a grocery store in Seattle's Chinatown/International District. His instructor was Bruce Lee's most senior student, Taky Kimura. Fought in full-contact, pre-MMA kickboxing tournaments and taught martial arts until being seriously injured by a drunk driver.

In 1989, co-wrote the original feature film screenplay for The Scout (1994), a baseball comedy movie set to star Rodney Dangerfield. When Rodney Dangerfield left the project, the script was shelved, but was eventually rewritten by and for Albert Brooks.