Conservation

If you want to know Michael better, follow him on vacation for six weeks. He enjoys being alone with the hardest to catch, and most beautiful girls. He is hard to reach at times because he travels 16 weeks a year on vacation usually fly fishing in remote places. He was almost arrested in Kamchatka. He got in trouble in Moscow. He was sent to meet Castro.

Project Showcase

Explore the diverse projects that highlight May's professional journey.

Largest Crawler Crane Nuclear Plant Construction

First job while in University - PLC Code to control it

Gerber Food Factory

Wrote first PLC3 on AB 700 person food factory

Cement Factory Texas

Large automation project to run new Kiln

Food Processing Process Control

Automated Food Factory

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CO2 Pipeline Installation TX

Tens of National Karting Titles

Pato O'Ward Indy Car Driver - Mexican Champ. Michaels 4 sons won national, regional titles. Chassis and engine builder of hundreds regional and national championships around the world. Sidney Gomez - Venezuelan Champion Pictured

Gas Pipeline Installation Oregon, Paper Plant Wisconsin, Sealright Carton Robot, 7 Other projects. Wrote book on PLC Coding.

Wild Salmon Center Russia

The Conservation Angler trips to Russia to save the steelhead. www.conservationangler.org

Sales Success

After Engineering career, sales career, then entrepreneur.

Apple - Top Salesperson Nationally

380% of Quota - 130 salespeople in dealer network

Top National Salesperson AVNET

400% of Quota, Top of 500 salespeople nationally first year in sales.

Awards or Recognition

EOY - Entrepreneur of the Year

Regional Winner National Finalist

Inc Magazine Inc 500

#47 on the Inc 500. Feature Article by Nancy Austin Author of A Passion For Excellence with Tom Peters

Ingrams 100 Fastest Growing Firms

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Winner of the California State Championship in No Limit Hold Em

Competition

Michael started racing at age 6, motorcycles, off road, sprint, oval and hot air balloons. He welded up chassis at age 12 to sell to local racers. By 14 he had an engine building company selling 4 cylinder race engines.

One company Michael started was funded by Microsoft and the Weather Channel competing a hot air ballon across the nation. His partnership with Microsoft resulted in a multimillion dollar partnership in the software world, allowing him to expand to Russia and Europe. Working with the DOD and DOE his firm worked to expand training to the hidden cities in Russia to reduce the threat of proliferation of nuclear weapons after the fall of the Soviet Union. Working with our country's biggest competitor to reduce the chances of nuclear war as they drew down from 45,000 warheads. When he left the program the Russians had about under 10,000. Today Russia has 5500 weapons.