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Dr.
Bird is currently an Educator, Public Speaker, and Author. He teaches at DeVry University (South Florida) and Keller Graduate School of Management. He has presented many presentations
to businesses, organizations, and other institutions. He has published online articles, research papers, and books.
Dr. Bird's motto is "Life is too short to give up on your dreams! So, go for it and live life to the fullest in
an effort to achieve your dreams."
His graduate studies include a Masters in Business Management and Doctorate
in Information Technology. His tweny-nine year professional experience includes approximately twenty years in Information
Systems. Other experience includes grocery merchandising, retail banking, financial auditing, internal fraud investigator,
internal control specialist, and insurance sales.
Professional Career of Michael Bird
Michael’s career started at age 16, where he unloaded trucks and stocked
shelves for Winn Dixie in Bradenton, Florida. At 18, he worked as a teller and savings counselor at Manatee Federal. His first
professional job at age 21 was a Financial Auditor in the banking industry. From there, he went on to work as an Internal
Fraud and Internal Control Specialist, Operational Efficiency Specialist, Insurance Salesperson, and Information Systems Auditor.
In 1988, he moved to Doral and started to work at Carnival Cruise Lines where he was an IT Auditor, IT and Voice Systems Disaster
Recovery Coordinator, Systems Security Manager, Application Software Developer, IT Quality Control Analyst, Quality Assurance
Supervisor, IT Software Project Manager, and IT Configuration Management. There were times where Michael worked two positions
at Carnival at the same time, where he developed the talent of multi-tasking. Some key projects at Carnival included a comprehensive
disaster recovery plan (1990), office services mailroom system (1991), front end system security system for the mainframe
(1992), automated mass compile system (1994), Y2K Project – Mainframe, MAPPER Systems, and Vendor Management (1999),
automated configuration management system for legacy application (2002), and worked many other projects in various platforms
(legacy and non-legacy applications). He retired early from Carnival Cruise Lines and in 2005 he became a full time college
professor at DeVry University.
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