He studied at the Rockefeller University in New York under Nobel Prize winner Robert Bruce Merrifield, directing his doctoral research efforts toward the metabolic indicators of peptide synthesis.

[3] He served as executive director of The Pacific Foundation for Science and Medicine from 1988 to 1992, an intersection of his clinical career with an emerging focus on technology, particularly in the arena of cybersecurity as well as the use and access protocols of the Internet.

[7] In addition to being credited with the development of one of the first anti-virus programs, "Vaccine", Tippett pioneered and commercialized a string of now-common technologies including what is now called the "Recovery Disk," processor image signatures, using hash-tables for trusted file execution and anomaly detection, aspects of mail merge and "un-do.

[15] Tippett is currently an adjunct professor, Division of General Medical Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

[16] In November 2017, T.E.N., a technology and information security executive networking and relationship-marketing firm, announced that Tippett was the recipient of the 2017 ISE® Luminary Leadership Award.