The author is a Colgate graduate with a master’s degree in urban planning from New York University. He spent his entire career in the financial services industry as both a banker and bank regulator

His career in high-level banking ultimately brought him to Washington D.C., where he authored numerous policy publications while employed by the nation’s foremost bank regulatory agency. Accordingly, his novel, The In-House Politician is written on the topic he knows best.

The author has had success with two short stories. "Meeting with Scrooge," an excerpt from a previous draft of the novel was published in the Wilderness House Literary Review in April 2022. A second story titled "Cleo in 3/4 Time" was published in the Penmen Review in September 2022.