Robert was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in South Bend, IN. At a young age he was a competitive mogul skier. He moved to Los Angeles in 1993 and began his career as a Production Designer, mainly for Commercials, Music Videos and Short Films. After several years he made the transition to Producing, mostly Commercial and Music Video productions, as well as a handful of short films. During that time he wrote five original screenplays and several short stories and screenwriting has remained his primary focus.

In 2006, he co-founded a video game company, which developed, produced and distributed a racing simulation title, which was a retail software package, that also became and effective training platform for professional stock car drivers.

He is an avid fly-fisherman for Salmon and Steelhead.