Mike started his career as an experimental neutrino particle physicist before creating the first WWW home page for Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mike formed his own software company to sell his Telnet/SSH client software for Windows in 1996 and later went on to specialize in freelance web site development for small businesses in Colorado. Mike earned his Ph.D. in Physics and B.S. in Information & Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine.