Born perhaps of a saint and a sinner on August 3rd, 1963 at sunrise in Cohoes, NY, Rob moved to Bath, Maine in the 2nd grade and was an All Star athlete as a troubled youth all through school in baseball and wrestling. He was bored with school but pretty much lived in the library pre-internet and considers himself self educated. Despite athletic scholarships he went on to enlist in the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division after being the first person to max out the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) as a junior in 1980. After turning down an invitation to attend West Point he went on to become the youngest soldier in the history of the division to receive the Expert Infantry Badge, achieved the rank of Sgt. E-5, served as the Training NCO for an Infantry Company of the US Rapid Deployment Force, and held an interim top secret clearance when he was honorably discharged in 1985 while assigned to working on government computers back when it was punch cards and rooms full of spinning computer reels.
Over the years he has followed his passions wherever they have led him, through the ups and downs, the pains and joys of living and loving. He has been successful in real estate, managing and maintaining over 1,000 residential and commercial properties for others as well as developing properties and being a licensed Real Estate Broker in Boston. He has also owned and operated multiple community restaurants, including cooking all the food, as well as other businesses, both wholesale and retail along the way. He has also built several houses, from the ground down of course, because you have to dig a hole first.
Robert is also a Certified Paralegal, graduating at the top of his class from Boston University Certification Program during his own divorce, and has worked for attorneys and law firms from Midtown Manhattan to rural America as well as privately, including using power of attorney to represent others in Family, Probate, and Tort courts across the country, up to and including preparing and presenting a brief all the way through the appeal process and successfully to the Supreme Court of the State of NH.
Rob joined the HIQ world after maxing out a doctor administered Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale battery of tests and earning an extrapolated (guess) score of 175 full scale IQ, above the test ceiling of 155. Although Rob is a past member of most of the High IQ Societies above the Mensa top 2% level (132) he is still currently an active member of International Mensa as well as a Senior Research Fellow with ISPE (International Society of Philosophical Enquiry), the oldest top 1% (146) organization.
Rob is currently on the road working several projects hands on. He is alive, always well, and with life being a journey, always seeking true self / true path answers, being all he can be and putting out as much good energy as he can helping as many as he can as much as he can…
Rob’s greatest achievements have been his children Brian, Rob, and Emily… His greatest troubles perhaps have been their 3 mothers.