Prior to Austin, Rion worked as a short-order cook, competition bartender, consultant, landscaper, and caterer, and semi-professional baseball player, though not at the same time. He also briefly worked as a moving man, which was both ironic and short lived as he left that job to make his 56th change of address, this time in Austin. Rion currently leads the Agave project and leads the Web and Cloud Services group at Texas Advanced Computing Center. In his spare time, Rion is learning about the joys of work-life balance with his wife and daughter.