Mike originally thought that computer skills were useless but he soon found out that he was totally wrong. Mike began to become interested in computers at an early age and has continued with the interest throughout his life. Mike taught himself many  computer skills and spent a lot of time working on the computer. He soon became the “go-to person” when someone he knew had a computer question or problem, which continues to this day. While in Middle School, Mike joined the Computer Club, Tech Time where he learned many  more computer skills such as: video editing, desktop publishing, graphic design, and web design.  Although Mike was very much against the Mac platform in his younger years, he has now become a strong supporter of the Mac and uses a Macbook Pro as his primary computer.

When he entered High School, he continued with his interest in computers and became more involved in using computers. It was also during this time that podcasting emerged as a new form of On-Demand Media over the internet and Mike began to watch and listen to podcasts from the TWIT network and  Revision3 along with many other independent podcasts. This new on-demand media wave inspired Mike to go into media production for the internet and continue to expand the amount of content available over the internet.

On August  21st, 2006 Mike and long-time friend Michael Plasmier founded Tecker, which is a social technology question and answer service. Mike was Director of Marketing and got the word out about the site while, Plasmeier did most the the PHP coding. Mike was also able to appear TWIT’s on net@nite promoting Tecker on December 31st, 2006.  The site never really caught on but, it was Mike’s first real experience in business and working on a social network site. The Tecker website hasn’t been changed since 2007, but it is still functional.

From the very beginning of Tecker, Mike though that there should be a  podcast that would answer and demonstrate the answers to the top questions on Tecker which ended up developing into,  an informative 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. Tecker 911 covered many topics such as: Mozilla Firefox, Secure File Destruction, Mac, Photography and much more. Tecker 911 in it’s production produced 100 episodes and recorded it’s 100th and final episode July 20th, 2009.

Also while in High School, Mike was  very involved in Future Business Leaders of America and has to qualified for the State Competition  all four years he was in high school. Mike also won tenth place in the  state competition in 2007 and again in 2009. Mike is continues to watch many video podcasts and listens to some audio podcasts as well. Mike is also an avid tea drinker and drinks tea daily instead of coffee.

Mike also started a cloud computing website in March of 2009, after doing his Senior Project on Cloud Computing and becoming fascinated by the topic.  The site was called Cloud scoop and was intended to become the Cloud Computing resource center . However, on August 4th 2009, Mike decided to merge it into Gdovin.net’s Cloud Computing Section because he was unable to produce enough content to justify another website. Mike continues to be a strong supporter of cloud computing and

On December 10th 2008, Mike launched The Weekly Spin, with Steven Stinson and William Termini. The Weekly Spin is an audio podcast that discusses the top news stories of the week in depth. On episode 3 Mike’s long time friend, Michael Plasmeier joined the show as a 4th host.

Mike is currently a Sophmore attending Kutztown University, majoring  in Electronic Media. He is a member of the National Broadcasting Society, and the Campus news show, Newsbreak. Mike also is a Producer for Newsbreak and was elected to the Executive Board of Newsbreak as Webmaster for the  Fall of 2010.

Mike  launched an internet video series , Screencast Weekly, on January 4th 2010.  Mike is both the host and the producer. On May 28th, 2010 Mike put  Screencast Weekly on hiatus indefinitely.