Mike started programming on a Time Share mainframe computer at age 15.  The son of a programmer and mathematician, Mike immediately found his niche.  At the computer programming contest at Southern Methodist University his senior year in High School, he beat out his school's valedictorian and placed in the top 8% of the contestants.

At the age of 19, while working at Texas Instruments, he starting programming practical applications that streamlined clerical procedure and made solving mathematical formulae easier for the engineering staff.

In addition to his natural programming abilities, Mike also has a strong background in art.  An accomplished, award-winning photographer, he prides himself in developing software that's both easy to look at and easy to use.  His programs have a natural flow to them, enabling new users to become proficient quite rapidly.  Extra steps are taken so that redundant tasks are "learned" by the software and offered as shortcuts to users in the future.

Mike is currently working as a senior web developer for one of the bureaus of the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC.

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