Brian Tarantino was born, raised and currently resides in New Jersey. He received a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Lehigh University. He was gainfully employed since he was 11 – his first job was delivering newspapers for the Home News — and worked for Corporate America from 1987 until his retirement in 2024. Besides his full-time job doing this retirement thing, he is an author of short stories, a wine maker, a husband and a father.