Mike
graduated from the United States Naval Academy, earning a BSSE in Systems Engineering. He
served as an officer aboard the submarine USS Memphis, SSN 691. After completing his tour of duty,
Mike joined Lockheed Martin's engineering team to work on the AN/BSY-2 Submarine combat system. Shortly after, Mike
moved into Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Laboratories, ATL, where he was the principal in defining innovative
approaches for naval command and control. Working from ATL, Mike led several projects with
Lockheed Martin's operating businesses to add a competitive advantage.
After seven years, Mike moved from the DOD realm into the civilian domain starting with Verizon
where he led a team develop and delivered their new customer contact and account configuration system.
Mike co-founded ISM and began contracting, working with Raytheon's development of the FAA's newest Air Traffic Control system;
assisting Merrill Lynch's program management team's early design efforts; and for ICON Laboratories,
developing their business model for a proposed clinical studies system.
Starting in 2001, Mike focused on the financial industry, working for Susquehanna International Group,
Goldman Sachs, and a five-man algorithmic trading firm, Rackson Asset Managment. Here, he honed his skills
building fault tolerant order routing systems, a high frequency trading system and multiple market data feeds.
In 2018, Mike designed and implemented ISM's first financial industry product, a Java FIX engine.
Mike's strong ability to abstract and generalize complex problems lets him
step into existing systems and business workflows to identify performance issues at the system, component and task levels.
Mike specializes in creating system architectures, modeling complex domains, and helping
clients through the often difficult transition between the requirements/analysis
and design phases.
