Rob earned his BA at SUNY Oswego and is a recent graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology's Communications & Media Technologies graduate program. It was there he developed an interest in online education, developing a Communications course curriculum. He has spent nearly three decades in communications, writing, producing and presenting radio and TV news broadcasts and public affairs documentaries. He received numerous honors for his work, including an Emmy. His Master’s thesis was the first in over 20 years to study and reveal the storage and archiving of 16 mm TV news film.