Mike Vincent has been in the software business for over 20 years in addition to engineering and marketing management positions. He ran his own consulting shop for many of those years providing commercial and custom solutions for healthcare, mobile, telecommunications, accounting, financial services, construction, hazmat and manufacturing. He also has worked with Microsoft partners focusing on application lifecycle management, integration and web development, and held enterprise and solution architect positions with major financial services companies. Mike focuses on application lifecycle management and software architecture with Microsoft .NET technology.

Actively involved in the user group community since the early 90's, Mike is Vice President of INETA Noram, founded and leads the SoCal .Net Architecture group which is now also IASA's SoCal Chapter, the SoCal Team System user group, and the Orange County C# Developers group, now OC .NET. Mike is a frequent presenter at local and regional Microsoft events, user groups and Southern California Code Camps. He has previously served with INETA as Treasurer and as the California Membership Mentor. Mike organized the SoCal .Net Technical Summit regional conferences and IASA's ITARC regional architecture summit in Southern California.

Mike is a Team System MVP and certified ScrumMaster.