Carl Allen Schoner holds a degree in behavioral science and is a certified clinical hypnotherapist as well as an experienced investor, writer, and cartoonist. His articles and cartoons have appeared in many prestigious publications such as Consulting Magazine, The California Law School Journal, Chess Life Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. He has also been a teacher, a counselor, a corporate training manager and technical support group manager for an international computer corporation, a project leader/systems analyst, and an Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) for a large educational institution. Some of his personal hobbies include astronomy, philosophy, logic puzzles, chess, cooking, and Asian cultural and language studies.