Lead the selection, integration and growth of acquisitions and mergers with the objective of diversifying NOCO's energy portfolio.

Finance/Accounting, Operations and Technology Leadership.

Senior Instructor leading classes across various age and skill levels. Develop lesson plans and optimize skill mastery for each student.Assess student progress through testing.Judge at tournaments across various martial arts styles.

Guiding schools across North America in their journey to the cloud. Transformed a floundering VAR into a flourishing enterprise consultancy firm focused on large academic clients with steady growth over 8 years, including through COVID-19. Developed numerous proposals regularly winning 5 and 6 figure engagements.Public speaker on behalf of Microsoft cloud technologies: Azure IaaS, PaaS and Microsoft 365.Responsible for developing client technical solution architectures and strategies.Client Quote: “Mike, you nailed it! …Great job and thank you.” Director IT, Global HVAC Manufacturer.

Embraced a key multi-dimensional role successfully landing large account solution sales, finessing account management, developing technology solution architectures, vendor relationships and contract negotiations.Led classes and knowledge transfer as a Certified Technical Trainer (CompTIA and Microsoft MCT). Regularly translated C-suite requirements to hands-on engineering team specifications. Project Manager for large client engagements.

Developed a successful Software as a Service (SaaS) product with Professional Services delivering employee benefit solutions for mid-market employers and healthcare payors, which was sold into over 70 client companies with 30,000+ users. Guided product development, operations, and customer service functions. As HIPAA Privacy Officer, led compliance for service teams and EDI platform. Established an affiliated accident/health/life insurance brokerage agency. Awarded US Patent: Consumer Funds Transfer Mechanism for Healthcare Claims (“Heffley, et al - United States # 8,219,420”).

Senior Financial Analyst responsible for developing comparative financial models and analyses.Technology Strategy Consultant to the CFO of a $2 Billion grocery retailer. Led a Joint Technology Selection program staffed with client team members for a new ERP and Finance platform.Oversaw a $6MM pricing platform migration between affiliated grocery chains.

Led a service-oriented staff providing voice and data network services at SOFTBANK’s multiple-location, 2000+ seat outsourcing call centers.Developed activity costing & profitability models, payback analysis and set pricing.Represented SOFTBANK at public speaking events, industry conferences and trade shows.Controlled over $10 million in assets and annual departmental budgets more than $3 million.Managed data networking and voice service teams including overseeing the first DS3 installation in Las Vegas for a new data center build, and deployment of Frame Relay and ATM services.Built a business unit from one employee to a 10-person team with over $2 million annual sales in less than 3 years.Established the firm’s first vendor management program and oversaw over $500,000 in monthly partner payments.Responsible for dozens of hires, mentoring team members and providing performance reviews.Managed Linux-based IVR services including direct oversight of programmers working in ‘C’ with embedded SQL connected to Informix databases. Supported Merger & Acquisition (M&A) activity as core M&A team member.

Founding partner of high-tech startup, designing marketing strategies, interactive retail displays, live-production staging and entertainment control systems utilizing video walls, touch-screens, lasers, projection systems and video / film productions.