honestly i think it would be hilarious if they became friends and he had no idea who she was and we can kind of play into him finding out later? he probably doesn't wiki too many authors or OR maybe he just gets into the series recently and starts talking about it and she's just like, erm...well.
he was a computer engineer the navy until a couple of years ago! since then he's been in st. augustine working as a math teacher and leading a fairly boring life.