[4] At Beverly Hills High School, he took metal shop taught by a former machinist's mate where he learned to weld, cast, make molds.

[3] His family hired woodcarver James Conrad Dallas as a private tutor, which turned into a 35 year long relationship.

He purchased a barn outside Los Angeles and built up a successful business training show horses and started a family.

Over nine months at his own expense he completed a 18 inches (460 mm) tall bronze sculpture of a Green Beret riding an Afghan horse.

A group of Wall Street bankers who lost friends and co-workers in the 9/11 attacks funded the monumental bronze statue.

[11] He was chosen from among 49 other applicants to construct a memorial to the victims of the crash of Flight 5191 at Blue Grass Airport on August 27, 2006.

Historical Monuments, and Special Operations Association to sculpt the new a life-and-a-half scale U.S. Army Special Forces Monument to be placed at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina and Washington D.C.[1][12] Other commissions he has received include "The Birds of Valencia," a 17-foot tall flock of birds for the Intertex Companies in Los Angeles, which was placed at the Bridgeport Marketplace shopping center in Valencia, California.

[13] He has received commissions to create a life-size herd of wild horses for the city of Aurora, Colorado, a large outdoor musical piece for the performing arts center in Lebanon, Kentucky, a new monument at the entrance to the Vance Brand Airport in Longmont, Colorado,[6] a life-size monument for the Kentucky State Fair and Exposition Center, the New Jersey Fallen Soldiers Monument to be placed at Picatinny Arsenal, a large commission for the American Saddlebred Museum, and the Bahrainian embassy in D.C.[1] Other monument commissions include: Reflections, William Shatner residence 2006; Way of Horse and Bow, William Shatner residence 2014; Safekeeping, Royal residence in Dubai, UAE 2005; Ode to Joy, San Francisco 2013; Ascension, Charleston 2015.

Blumberg has completed more than 200 private and public commissions and received a number of awards[4] since he opened his studio full-time in 2000.

[6] In 2003 he received a commission from William Shatner for a statue that became the "Way of Horse and Bow", featuring a Samurai warrior on horseback.

A smaller version of America’s Response Monument was put on display at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Museum.