Blogger Bio
I started out in accounting school at Arizona State in the early 90s, destined to become an Andersen consultant. I never got the Andersen tattoo (not a bad move in retrospect), but used my training well: I wrote and designed lots of enterprise code, consulted, and ran projects for companies like Intel, Bank of America, a large regional energy company, and a global Motorola spin-off. I even worked as a consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers for a while. In my off hours, I wrote open source projects.
When I got into it, we were changing the world and teaching elephants to dance. Little did I know I was just getting started.
But after ten years of consulting, coding, and running projects, I took a break. Some people travel the world; I cashed out the equity in my house at the top of the market to go do something I meant to do years prior: go to law school and move to Seattle. While it was kind of a spur of the moment choice, I learned as much as I could: I graduated in the top 5% of my class, served on the Law Review’s editorial board, and was lucky enough to clerk for a federal judge.
Now I’m starting to put all the pieces together: technology, law, and consulting. And I see another chance to change the world, all over again.
By the way, I have a really busy personal life too. I have a beautiful daughter, Mia, and an equally beautiful wife. But you can read more about that on my Tumblr blog: alive.michaelrice.com.
For the record, my blogging dates all the way back to the late 1990s. I just don’t have the proof anymore, so just take my word for it.
