Like his father, Charles was born in the Bronx, New York in April of 1970. In 1972 his family relocated to the south shore of Long Island where his father Michael accepted a job with Woodbury Automotive Warehouse. At the age of 8 Charles was working in the Amityville warehouse sweeping the floors in his baseball uniform before his Saturday afternoon game which his dad coached. By15 he was working summers in the warehouse stocking shelves, pulling parts for the will call customers and working the warranty department. At 17 Charles began working as a driver and counter person for one of the local company owned auto part stores while attending high school and then college, he worked after hours and on Saturdays and Sundays.

Charles graduated from West Islip High School in 1988 and went right on to Marcy College in New York City to pursue his passion for music. After earning a 2 year degree in song writing and music production, Charles began working in the music business for a little over a year when he realized music was better off being his hobby rather than his profession. In July of 1991 Charles joined the Woodbury team and climbed the corporate ladder becoming warehouse manager in 1996, then in 1999 he became the Operations Manager, finally in 2004 Charles was promoted to Vice President of the company. His most recent accomplishment and most successful was in late 2006 when he launched the company's ecommerce department which is the company's largest growing department currently at Woodbury Automotive Warehouse.

Charles lives on the south shore of Eastern Long Island and is married for 12 years to his wife Kim. They have 2 children, Michael 10 and Marissa 7 and 2 dogs Zoey and Cody which are the loves of their life.