Early life and military service Zieja grew up in
New Jersey and graduated from the
United States Air Force Academy. He served as an
intelligence officer for over a decade, attaining the rank of
captain. and by 2014 had transitioned to full-time voice acting, recording from his home studio before relocating to Los Angeles. According to Zieja, he turned to voice acting after his military intelligence job burned him out, calling that work "a lot of PowerPoints." Within eight months, his client list had grown long enough that he needed to quit his day job and focus on voice acting full-time. He has voiced
Fox McCloud in the animated short
Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins (2016),
Claude von Riegan in
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019) and related titles such as
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (2022) and
Fire Emblem Heroes,
Bumblebee in the Netflix series
Transformers: War for Cybertron trilogy (2020–2021), Achilles in the English dub of
Fate/Apocrypha, and Wriothesley in the video game
Genshin Impact (2023). He plays the male version of the protagonist, Wolf, in
Destiny: Rising (2025).
Writing career Zieja is the author of the
Epic Failure Trilogy, published by
Simon & Schuster's
Saga Press. The series includes: •
Mechanical Failure (2016) •
Communication Failure (2017) •
System Failure (2019) According to Zieja, the novels satirize the bureaucracy of life in the armed forces with a comedic tone. He also narrated the audiobook editions of his works. ==Filmography==