After completing his undergraduate degrees in Sports Marketing & Management, Business and Spanish at Indiana University in 2010, Tyler became Director of Operations for the Wisconsin Sports Development Corporation, the non-profit organization that puts on the Badger State Games and Paddle & Portage. He entered the DePaul University College of Law where he was a clinical student at Affordable Housing and Community Development clinic and a legal extern or the Honarable Kathleen G. Kennedy, Circuit Court of Cook County. After completing his law degree in 2013, he began a clerkship with Lipkin & Higgins in Chicago, IL.