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• Grew up in Anaheim, California.
• Played the trumpet in high school.
• Worked as a fry cook, just like the character SpongeBob from SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Worked as a marine biology teacher at the Orange County Marine Institute where he wrote the informative comic book The Intertidal Zone to help educate his students.
• His characters and concepts from The Intertidal Zone later became SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Co-founder of the United Plankton Charitable Trust.