Mike originally thought that computer skills were useless 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 read at times. He also met Michael Plasmeier who would  later co-found Tecker with Mike, as well as co-host for Tecker 911 and The Weekly Spin. While in elementary school, Mike taught himself many basic  computer skills that would later help define the rest of his 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. At that time, 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. Although Mike is a big fan of the Mac now, while he was in Middle School he was very much against the Mac.

When he entered Haverford High School he was a still very close friend 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 newly formed: 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 also 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 on August 21st, they became partners and founded Tecker . 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 came up with the idea of 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.

While in High School, Mike was also, very involved in Future Business Leaders of America and has to gone to states all four years he was in high school. Mike also won tenth place in the entire state in 2007 and again in 2009. 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.

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 Michael Plasmeier joined the show as a 4th host.

Mike also started a cloud computing website in March of 2009, called Cloud scoop . 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 is currently a Freshman attending Kutztown University, majoring  in Electronic Media.

Mike also founded Webwide Productions which launched it’s first show, Screencast Weekly, on January 4th. It is hosted and produced by Mike.