As an educator, Percy spent fourteen years in the New York City and Los Angeles public school system, teaching 4th, 5th and 6th grades. He has served in the university and adult education areas, including work with the Desegregation Training Institute at California State University at Northridge.

As a professional communicator, Percy has lectured and presented workshops and seminars on a variety of educational topics, both here stateside and internationally at such distinguished institutions as City University of New York, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Waseda Universtiy in Tokyo, Japan and Moscow University.

His extensive background within corporate environments has included work in the technological fields of telecommunications, telephony, interactive voice response systems, networking and networking security, multimedia, video conferencing, machine vision and workstations.

Percy has served as a creative consultant for KCET, the Los Angeles PBS station, and has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows over the past 18 years. Percy is the author of several books on education including "How to Grow a Child … A Child's Advice to Parents", "Help Your Child in School" and "The Power of Creative Writing."

Percy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College and Master's degree from Columbia University Teacher's College.