He did not finish his studies because Advanced Technology, an IT service provider for the US Department of Defense, offered him a lucrative job as a programmer.
[3] The company also rented out programming capacities, for example to Bob Bates' video game start-up Challenge Inc. which developed text adventures for industry leader Infocom.
From July 2002 until May 2009 Verdu worked for EA Los Angeles, first as producer, then from 2005 on as division director for real-time strategy games, and from 2007 on as vice president/general manager.
During his seven years at EA Los Angeles he was responsible for titles such as Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars or The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II.
From June 2009 until August 2012 Verdu worked as Chief Creative Officer for American browser game publisher Zynga.
When Kabam was bought up by South Korean video game company Netmarble Verdu went back to Electronic Arts, this time as senior vice president of EA Mobile.
Verdu started the Legend Entertainment tradition to obtain licenses for literary works and use them as a blueprint for games.
[10] Other conventional writers whose works were licensed to Legend for conversions to computer games were Piers Anthony (Companions of Xanth), Terry Brooks (Shannara) and Spider Robinson (Callahan's Crosstime Saloon).