Years in corporate finance are where Mike honed his skill of using spreadsheet macros to automate the manual tasks of planning and reporting. Mike was recruited by Arbor Software in 1992 as employee number twenty because of his finance background and spreadsheet expertise. In the pre-IPO years of Arbor, Mike was a pre-sales consultant. In the post-IPO years of Arbor, Mike moved into more of an application developer role. In 2001 as part of Hyperion Solutions, Mike created a team called the Solutions Group. The Solutions Group completed many proof of concept projects, including Smart View, Smart Space, and custom defined functions (CDF). In 2015, Mike proposed a new product idea for an Excel Smart View extension that would leverage the new Essbase cloud platform. This new product, called Cube Designer, would allow an application developer to build an Essbase cube by defining the outline, calc scripts, and data within an Excel workbook. Today, Mike is a consulting member of technical staff within the Essbase development team. He continues to lead the Cube Designer development effort and works to evangelize the Essbase platform to both internal and external customers.