A native of Coushatta, Louisiana, Jeff graduated in 1995 from Caddo Magnet High School in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he performed in multiple school and community stage productions and drama competitions. A lifelong fan of film, Jeff is a marketing and communications professional working in the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area, where he is also the president of the nonprofit Forever Parks Foundation of Pearland in the Houston suburb. He supports and participates in film productions across multiple genres and has been cast in several feature-length and short films. Jeff has written, directed, and produced one short film, The Warehouse (2018), that earned four awards in the Houston Horror 48-Hour Film Project.