Whiteman is the founder of the Whitestone Council, the fan organization behind the Dragonlance Nexus. Since the founding of the council, Trampas has worked with Sovereign Press/Margaret Weis Productions as a designer on the Dragonlance sourcebooks for 3rd edition, including Holy Orders of the Stars, Knightly Orders of Ansalon, and Races of Ansalon. He has contributed to many other Dragonlance sourcebooks, functioning as a compiler and contributor for Lost Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home. Trampas also has credits in Bastion Press' Pale Designssourcebook, as well as Whitesilver Publishing's Elves sourcebook for Sovereign Stone.
Whiteman once worked on The Signal, the fan podcast for Firefly and Serenity, writing and reading the "Gaming in the 'Verse" section.[1] He has since moved on to co-create the Dragonlance Canticle[2] and SciFi Smackdown[3] podcasts.