He received his AA in Accounting in 1994 graduating with honors from New Hampshire Technical College in Laconia. He began writing history and engaging in Archaeology as an amateur in 1995. In 2002, he returned to school to study Archaeology and Anthropology. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Anthropology from the University of New Hampshire in 2007. He currently works as a field Archaeologist for Crane & Morrison Archaeology, Freeport, Maine, while pursuing graduate studies in the Historical Archaeology Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.