Throughout his entrepreneurial career, Mike has co-founded four new ventures, raised more than $7 million dollars of early-stage capital, authored or co-authored 12 patents, and strategically led in the development of a 10-year $600 million dollar technology-based economic development initiative.

Built and led a team of 7 individuals from a pre-funded prototype product, through the funding process, into a full-time, fully functional product development organization. Guided and informed the development of Leap2’s collaborative search platform. Spoken, Presented, and contributed at many Technical and Community events and articles including Kaufman Foundation, BigKC, Silicon Prairie News, Invest Midwest, WTC, and one million cups.

Systems Engineer for the Leap2 Search Platform Development, including:
Leap2 Meta Real Time Engine
Leap2 Out of Band Processing Engine
Leap2 Real Time Stream Processing Engine
Leap2 Screenshot Service
Leap2 Distributed Storage System
Services API Development
Specializes In:
Scalable Systems Architecture
Search Systems
Web Development (HTML,CSS,JavaScript,jQuery,AJAX)
Systems Development (Java,Ruby,JRuby,JavaScript,JSON)

Search System Analysis/R&D related to:
Real-time data analysis, search algorithm and system architecture development. Researching the application of signal analysis techniques on real-time social data. Statistical and data analysis to quantify and understand relationships between search, news and social networks. Researching calculations and rankings of social users to measure and quantify their impact in a given social network.

Developed and maintains the RESTful JSON API used by all client versions of Leap2
Engineered a fingerprinting solution for mobile devices to better track device registrations across marketing campaigns
Created n-gram matrices based on analyzed twitter content to implement both search term autocomplete, and hashtag suggestion.
Implementing AI solutions for search optimization that integrate crowd-sourced human feedback.