Pete Cordova, a Jersey boy, started his career in the early 1980s working at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. There he worked in the prop department building props and also set construction. He began prop mastering shows at the Met and other theater shows in the city. He moved to Florida in the early 1990s and went into art direction for music videos and TV commercials, working with some of the top music video directors Joseph Kann, Troy Smith, Little X, Gill Green to name a few. He then started designing for the TV commercial world. He started doing props for movies that came into Florida, working with such directors as Michael Bay, Oliver Stone, Michael Mann. He then began designing for features in 2007.