Education
Hepler graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996 with a degree in communications (radio, television and film) and Durham Technical Community College in 2005 with a degree in electronics.
Hepler graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996 with a degree in communications (radio, television and film) and Durham Technical Community College in 2005 with a degree in electronics.
Hepler is an advocate, contributor, and representative for Cytunes.org an organization that features music from artists who have contributed tracks to help raise money in memory of Cy Rawls, a close friend, who died October 3, 2008 from a malignant brain tumor. All proceeds from CyTunes are donated to the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University Medical Center, where Rawls was treated. He currently resides in Durham, North Carolina.
Hepler has a relationship with the preparation, presentation and eating of food.
He is well known in local circles as a Pit Master and Master Chef. He has been featured in two separate cook books
Lost in the Supermarket by Kay Bozich Owens & Lynn Owens and I Like Food, Food Tastes Good by Kara Zuaro. He has also been featured in a few cooking blogs.