Ontela
Mike brings a wealth of product management experience in designing useful and usable software that “just works” for millions of end users. Before joining Ontela, Mike held several Group Program Manager positions leading the creation of new versions of client applications, server applications and shared components within the Microsoft Office system. Past products include the first version of SharePoint, FrontPage XP, Outlook 2003, Excel 2007 and Excel Services 2007. Before his tenure at Microsoft, Mike worked as a programmer/analyst at Goldman, Sachs, & Co building and supporting market data and order management systems for the listed equities traders and institutional sales teams. Mike has a B.S. in Computer Science from the Engineering College at Cornell University, where he also did a concentration in cognitive science and graduate work in computer graphics. Mike enjoys reading, writing, art, photography, skiing, hiking, travel and being a dad, and is currently trying to learn Spanish and Hobie Cat sailing on the side.