Rainford, aka Scouty back in his youth days was a standout track and field athlete while attending Saint Andrew Technical High School in Jamaica. Rainford was offered and accepted a track scholarship to attend Grambling State University (Louisiana) in the early eighties. He competed at Grambling for four years and graduated with a B.S. degree in Industrial Technology. Rainford went on to complete his M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of New Haven in West Haven, Connecticut.

Professionally, Rainford is an outside-of-the-box thought-thinker, entrepreneur and engineer who currently operate several businesses in the Southern California area. His business portfolio includes; founder and president, Environmental Strategies Group, an environmental consulting firm that helps companies proactively comply with environmental laws and regulations; founder and president, Proactive Sports Compliance, LLC, a sports compliance consulting firm that helps colleges and universities proactively comply with NCAA rules and regulations; and founder and president, International Athlete Support Institute, a not-for-profit, he established to help athletes change their visit status to remain or travel to the U.S. for training and competition as they formulize their mission, the primary purpose of which is to pursue their goals and dreams of a professional career while residing in the United States.

An experience compliance consultant, he draws on his technical background and his own deep experience as a former government regulator and his long-standing interest and involvement in the sports industry to help athletes find solutions to overcome some of the challenges that prevents them from achieving their ultimate goal of representing their country.