Mike's Credentials

The USAF provided Mike with a jump start into a satisfying career working on interesting projects in aero-space electronics. Mike's Electricity Training Module is a reflection of his early training about the fundamentals of electricity. Understanding the fundamentals made it easy for him to adapt to many different interesting applications.

Mike majored in drafting during high school and was art editor of the high school newspaper during his senior year. He joined the U.S. Air Force and was assigned to attend an electronics school; then maintained the radar system on an advanced fighter aircraft of the post Korea period, (Convair F-102A). Upon completion of his active duty, he worked in the aerospace industry for 15 years, holding several technical jobs. He was an ICBM missile technician, a flight simulator engineering technician, logic designer, systems engineer, and project manager.

Mike went to college during evenings and earned a B.S.B.A. that became his ticket to technical product sales. He ran a marketing department for 3 years, supervised the preparation of bids and proposals, participated in the writing of technical manuals and proposals for aircraft training equipment, and traveled with the Sales VP as technical advisor during proposal presentations at customer locations throughout the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. Tiring of the extensive travel, changed careers in 1977, joining a large manufacturer of test and measurement instruments. He sold test instruments to high tech companies for 23 years and became an expert operator of RF/microwave spectrum analyzers and optical time domain reflectometers. He was recruted by an international test equipment company and served as their North American sales manager for several years. Earned an MBA in 1991.

Now retired from the daily activities of the corporate world, Mike supplements his retirement income working as an independent business and computer consultant. In addition to advising small business owners, he writes technical manuals, creates sales literature and web presentations.

His current hobby is stylizing and restoring photographs using digital imaging techniques. Past hobbies have been portrait and wedding photography, assembling PCs and early in his career, performed magic shows to entertain children on special occasions, birthday parties and cub scout banquets.

Volunteer activity: ER Liaison at the Medical Center of Plano.