Michael is a past member of the AP Statistics Development Committee (2001-2005) and a current Table Leader for the Operational Exam.  He for many years was a Table Leader for the Alternate and Overseas Exams.  He has been a lead teacher at many AP Summer Institutes over the past twenty-one years and is a frequent presenter at College Board conferences.  Last year, he lead three online APSIs. Michael was the statistics content editor for the series, Laying the Foundation: Connecting to AP Mathematics funded by the O’Donnell Foundation.  He was also the author of the 2007 College Board AP Statistics Teacher’s Guide available on the College board website.  He has also authored the AP-style multiple-choice and free-response cumulative review sections for The Practice of Statistics for AP* 4e, 5e, and 6e editions as well as the Prep for the AP Exam Guide 4e.  Michael also authored the practice exams for the Strive for a 5 Guide (Molesky/Legacy) to accompany TPS 5e and TPS 6e and was a reviewer of Josh Tabor's Annotated Teacher's Edition for TPS 5e.

In February 2010, Michael was honored by the Siemens Corporation as the Texas AP Math/Science Teacher of the year.  He served as an AP statistics consultant to Pasadena ISD (TX) for 2010-12 under the auspices of the National Math + Science Initiative and then filled the same role for Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD (TX) and Birdville ISD (TX).  Michael very recently retired after 47 years of teaching and for the past twenty of those years taught AP Statistics, Honors and Advanced Precalculus at Greenhill School in Addison, Texas.