Mike originally thought that computer skills were worthless and would never be needed but, he soon found out that he was totally wrong. Mike went to Manoa Elementary school where he began to learn basic computer skills like typing which helped because his handwriting is very hard to decipher at time. He also met Michael Plasmeier who would be later be a co-found Tecker with him. Mike learned many basics of computing and other skills that would later help in his future life.
In Middle School, Mike continued his love of computers and he joined the School computer club called Tech Time. While in Tech Time, Mike learned many more computer skills like, video editing, desktop publishing, graphic design, and web design. Back then, Mike wanted to become a computer programmer, yet he never learned how to program. In his free time Mike taught himself everything he needed to become a computer expert and became a source of computer information for friends and family. While, in Tech Time Mike also met many people he would later recruit for W3life and Tecker.
When he entered Haverford High School he was still very close friends with Michael Plasmeier. Plasmeier then launched his own website, theplaz.com in February 2006 and Mike realized that the future of technology was on the Internet and the only way to keep up was to get involved in the Internet. Mike spent a lot of his freshmen year of High School listening to podcasts and watching video podcasts from the TWIT network, Revision3 and other independent podcasters. He learned a lot about the newest technological advances and what was going on the the Technology Business. Mike was able to appear on net@nite promoting Tecker on December 31st, 2006. After, all the inspiration from podcasts and great website made Mike want to found his own website. One day the idea dawned on him a social technology help network, conveniently, Mike was getting together with Michael Plasmeier that day and they became partners and created Tecker on August 21st. Mike learned some PHP coding and assisted Plaz who did the majority of the coding. Mike also served as the Director of Marketing for Tecker and promoted Tecker like on the Net@nite interview. Mike also thought of the idea of a podcast that would answer and demonstrate answers to the top questions on Tecker but, later it became a show for Technology relevant to your daily life. The first episode was released, December 13th, 2006 and is also available on Haverford’s local access channel, Channel 11.
On November 1st, 2006 Mike established W3life Internet Media with several friends from Tech Time. W3life was Blogging network run by Mike as CEO, who also wrote the free software blog. A few months later Mike realized that because of the large amount of podcasts he watched that video and audio on-demand, also know as podcasts were a promising future and W3life began releasing podcasts in December 2006. Mike led the round table news show, Leetspeek, also he hosted The Freeware Show which reviewed Free Software and also hosted with Ed Rochon and Eassa Ayoub, So You Want to Buy a Computer. W3life Internet Media then evolved into video podcasts and Mike hosts Modlife with Tecker 911 Co-host Jordan Berman. Mike has also recruited many people who work at Tecker to also work at W3life. In October 2008 Mike decided to cease W3life due to lack of productivity and decided to begin working on new projects.
Mike is also, very involved in Future Business Leaders of America and has earned the right to go to States all three years he was in the club. Mike also won tenth place in the entire state in 2006. Mike is still watches many video podcasts and listens to some audio podcasts. Mike is an avid tea drinker and drinks a lot of tea from adagio.com, and made several custom blends on the site.
