Leadership

     Mike is a retired professional with experience in banking and professional societies. He was at various times a computer operator, programmer, data processing manager, accounting supervisor, and internal auditor. He was President of a national professional society for both Internal Auditors and Data Processing Managers and Executive Vice President of another professional society for mortgage brokers. The latter had offices in both Washington, DC and Phoenix, AZ.

His educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts from University of South Florida in Business Administration, multiple photography courses from Scottsdale Community College and several courses in Archaeology at Arizona State University.

He spent the last twenty years since he retired exploring and photographing in the Central Arizona area and recently published a book entitled Twenty Years of Exciting Exploration in the Perry Mesa Region.

As part of those explorations, he located and documented over 950 prehistoric habitation structures, hundreds of petroglyph sites and many more features and artifacts. The information he developed has been shared with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the Tonto National Forest and various area universities. He worked to set up a symposium in 2011 with industry experts to tell the story of the prehistory of the Perry Mesa area and co-edited a book covering that symposium which was published a year later.

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