Mike is a native Virginian and moved with his family to Santa Barbara in 1971. He is a graduate of Santa Barbara HS, Santa Barbara CC and UC Santa Barbara with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics. While working for two area CPA firms, Mike earned his CPA certificate in 1979. He started his own accounting practice in 1984 and it has evolved into serving over 100 area homeowner associations and individual tax clients. Please note that Mike is no longer accepting new tax clients.

Mike bought a Goleta condominium in 1980 and served as Treasurer of his self-managed association for 5 years during the 1980s. He helped found the South Coast Homeowners Association (southcoasthoa.org), an educational group of 140+ HOAs, in 1988 and currently edits the newsletter. Mike has served on the planning committee for the California CPA Education Foundation’s Common Interest Realty Association Conference since 1991 and has been a speaker at that conference for many years since including conference chair in 1995, 2000, and 2015.

Mike is also a charter member of the Rotary Club of Goleta Noontime, a Past-President (1995-96) and current Treasurer. Other professional memberships include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, California Society of CPAs, Executive Council of Homeowners (ECHO), and Community Associations Institute (CAI).

Mike has been an active stamp collector since 1968 and is a member of the American Philatelic Society and the American Helvetia Philatelic Society (Switzerland).  Of special note are several commemorative cancels he developed that were used in Santa Barbara/Goleta from the Santa Barbara HS Centennial in 1975 to Goleta Valley Days/Lemon Festival/Goleta Depot postmarks and most recently, the Goleta Rotary Centennial cancel in 2005.

Mike resides in Goleta with his wife Brenda. We have two children. Rollin owns 805 Pool Tables in Goleta and Matt works for a video game division of Microsoft in Redmond, WA.