Rob is a Unified Communications Engineer specializing in Cisco VoIP. Gaming of all forms has always been a hobby ever since he was little. Some of Rob’s more memorable gaming systems from his childhood are the Odyssey2, Atari, Colecovision, and eventually the Dreamcast. Nowadays it’s the Xbox360 all the way! Rob has been an avid video gamer since the 1980s which prompted him to start the This Xbox Life Podcast in 2008 with co-hosts Mark, Brun, and Kyle. Rob also enjoys hobbyist board games and is also the host of This Board Game Life.
Mark is a Platinum Support Account Manager for McAfee. He is also a veteran of the United States Air Force who spend eight years as a crew chief on the F-117A Stealth Fighter and the F-16C/D Fighting Falcon. When Mark is not busy with work, family, or punching holes in paper targets at the range with his real world weapons, he likes to shoot the virtual ones on his Xbox 360. Some of his favorite games are Call of Duty, Gears of War, Borderlands, Halo, and Crackdown to name just a few. You can usually find him online in a party shooting aliens, bad guys, or tossing grenades at his team mates.