Adam has worked as a screenwriter and story artist for several production studios in film, television, and games, including Tandem Motion Pictures, Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, Sony Superbot, Cartoon Network, Paramount, and Marvel. A Calarts graduate, Adam has lived abroad, studying writing and art in Florence, Italy, Paris, France, and Guanajuato, Mexico. He also taught story structure, dramatic theory, as well as painting and story art at California Institute of the Arts.