Jesse graduated from Cal State Northridge with a degree in Cinema and Television Arts, and a focus on Screenwriting. At only 24 years old, Jesse sold his first screenplay, The Secret Art of Human Flight (Grant Rosenmeyer, Paul Raci, Maggie Grace), a whopping 11 years after writing his first feature script in 8th grade. The film features some of the children's books that Jesse published in real life, prior to writing the script. His publishing brand, Grandpa Herbie's Stories has published 14 books to date.

Jesse started working in the industry when he was 16, as an intern for writer, director, and producer Jeremy Garelick (The Hangover, The Break-Up, The Wedding Ringer). Jesse started doing script coverage during the formative years of Jeremy's pioneer, Upstate New York studio, American High. Jesse ran American High's Development Team while the studio produced a slate of Hulu originals like Big Time Adolescence (Pete Davidson, Griffin Gluck), The Binge (Vince Vaughn, Skyler Gisondo), The Ultimate Playlist of Noise (Keean Johnson, Madeline Brewer), and Plan B (Kuhoo Verma, Victoria Moroles). Eventually, Jesse became Jeremy's personal assistant until he decided to devote his time entirely to Grandpa Herbie's Stories, at the encouragement and advice of Jeremy himself.

Grandpa Herbie's Stories is the bi-product of Jesse's whimsical imagination and 10+ years of experience in childcare and education. Jesse invested his life's savings into the company during his final year at CSUN and in the year following his graduation. It began as a collaboration between CSUN's most talented and ambitious art students, but soon flourished into an international network of illustrators that have added their creative sparks to 14 entirely unique literary worlds of adventure, rhyme, and moral lessons. Jesse's goal is to publish 40 books by the time he turns 40.

Jesse also got an entirely separate introduction to the film industry through his experiences on American Ninja Warrior. Jesse first competed on the hit reality show during his senior year of college, making it to the Season 10, Los Angeles City Finals, and placing just three spots away from the National Finals in Las Vegas. Jesse returned as a competitor on seasons 11 and 13.

None of this would have been possible without the love, support, encouragement, and creative input of Jesse's incredible wife and best friend, Eliza.

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