Prior to working on IRIS for Caltrans, he worked on driver assistance systems and asset management projects at AHMCT, and a distributed 3-tier banking system with Wells Fargo. He also developed versions 1 and 2 of DARWin, AASHTO's implementation of their Pavement Design Guide. Michael has an M.S. in Computer Science, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and is particularly interested in software reliability.