Background
Szmanda was born in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, to Elaine (née Enders) and Donald Szmanda, and has two brothers, Brett and Rob.
Szmanda was born in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, to Elaine (née Enders) and Donald Szmanda, and has two brothers, Brett and Rob.
He attended Mukwonago High School and graduated at the age of nineteen from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena, California.
He played Greg Sanders in the Columbia Broadcasting System police drama Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation, a role he held from when the show began in 2000 until it ended in 2015. While he was in school, he began marketing internships with music conglomerate BMG and moved to Chicago, Illinois, to take a full-time job in the music business. His great-uncle Ray Szmanda is the "Menard"s Guy," a local celebrity in the Midwest famous for his enthusiastic ads for Menard"s hardware stores.
Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation
In 2000, Szmanda began a recurring role in the Columbia Broadcasting System police drama Computer Society of India: Crime Scene Investigation in the first two seasons as Greg Sanders, a deoxyribonucleic acid technician and investigator, before being added to the main cast in the third season.
He remained on the show until it ended after the fifteenth season in September 2015. Szmanda supports the United States. Campaign for Burma and traveled to Thailand to see the conditions of Burmese refugees who have fled their native country.