He is from a Hollywood lineage and grew up on movie sets. His father was a Gaffer and his grandfather was a Teamster.
He has been the publisher and editor of The Century City news in Century City, CA. since 2004.
He ran his family's motion picture equipment business Keylite PSI, providing equipment to hundreds of feature films and thousands of hours of television. He also ran two independent film studios; The Osmond Studios and the Valencia Studios.
His first published work was the Entertainment Funding Sourcebook (1987) which sold for $110 a copy when new.
In the film "The Player" (1992) Tim Robbins picks up a directory off the shelf and finds the number he is looking for. The directory is the Studio White Pages, a real directory of studio phone numbers published by Michael Carlin.