January 2007

Hi,

My name is Michael F. Magnant, Please call me Mike. Born and raised through High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Back in the 70's I graduated from the University of Wisconsin (Go Badgers) with a B.A. in American Institutions; and in the late 80's earned an M.S. in Systems Management from USC (University of Southern California-Go Trojans!).

I had a great career in the Navy, flying over the Atlantic Basin supporting strategic communications to the Submarines and managing telecommunications and computer systems.  I was regularly called upon to immerse myself in technology and prepare and present materials to others such that they could put the technology to work.  More than once I ran a Navy school house or Attended Instructor Training.  My last major military school was the Advanced Management Program of the National Defense University, where we were introduced to Andragogy (Adult education theory - this was some real outside the box thinking for the Navy in 1989). Retired from active duty in Washington after a tour aboard the Nation's mightiest warship the USS Theodore Roosevelt, and then enjoyed 6 years supporting government contacts mostly related to Information Technology in the Washington DC area.

I had the opportunity to lead many interesting projects ranging from an electronic fence for the US/Mexico border to establishing a Windows NT based network for the CAD/CAM team at the National Institute of Standards.  During the DOT COM boom, I consulted to Fredericks of Hollywood, Gateway and Danka and a few other Fortune 500 companies, with a focus on the network, backbone hardware and management.