Teaches an online screenwriting course on lynda.com.
In 1998, became the first known filmmaker to employ online crowd funding to finance a feature.
Was the Grand Prize Winner in Getty Images' 2006 short film competition
"The Next Big Idea." His 60 second film entitled "The Closest Thing to
Time Travel" won $10,000.
Researched and wrote the Wall Street statistics that appear during the end credits of The Other Guys (2010).