After serving 4 years in the US Army Reserves and over 25 years in the active Army as an officer in the Signal Corps, Mike retired to Columbus, Ohio to work as an IT consultant for the largest Ohio-owned IT consulting company, Information Control Company. His career included being stationed at the US Military Academy at West Point teaching computer science, a combat deployment to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and serving at the Chief Information Officer at West Point and at the National Defense University. Mike has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois and completed all of the requirements for a PhD minus the dissertation from the University of Virginia. Mike’s an active member of the local community, to include being the local Chapter Captain of Team Red, White, and Blue.