Mike serves as the CISO for GCE, responsible for leading the security team and protecting students, staff, and information assets across the enterprise. He also serves as Adjunct Faculty for GCU, teaching Malware Analysis. Previous experiences include serving as a threat prevention engineer for Check Point and working as a consultant and analyst for other organizations.

He is also a co-author/contributor for Understanding New Security Threats published by Routledge in 2019, along with many articles. Community work includes co-founding the Threat Intelligence Support Unit (TISU), volunteer work for ACTRA, and co-creating multiple adversary emulation frameworks including BeaconatorC2, AutoPwnKey, BypassIT, and AutoRMM.