Michael Wilkes dates his first Internet wanderings back to 1981 and is currently employed at Organic, Inc., as a systems integration architect. Since 1998, he has organized and managed several teams of engineers responsible for hosting and maintaining Web sites for many major international corporations. Michael began his telecommunications career in 1993 at the U.S. Department of Education in the Department of Educational Technology supporting California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master's degree from Stanford University.