Mike is an instructor for Pluralsight specializing in the .NET framework, WPF, and Silverlight. He also works as an independent consultant (operating as DotEverything, LLC -- http://doteverything.net), providing design, system engineering, and technology migration in WPF and Silverlight along with additional expertise in Windows kernel mode development and reverse engineering.

Since beginning his career 15 years ago in commercial software development (anyone remember WordPerfect?) on Windows 3.x, Mike's experience has taken him through the Microsoft technology parade including the Win32 SDKs, MFC and COM (DCOM, COM+, ...), and device driver development. Most recently, Mike has been immersed in projects including analyzing the innards of the .NET framework and new Vista technologies, and migrating existing MFC/WinForms apps to the latest .NET GUI technologies.