Name: Mike MacDonald
Company: Visual Mining
Job Title: CEO
Bio: Michael MacDonald, Visual Mining, Inc. founder, has extensive experience in software design, development, and implementation, specializing in information graphics and Graphical User Interface applications. Recognizing the need for easy-to-implement dynamic graphics as well as the corporate support for the Java standard from Netscape and Sun Microsystems, he correctly assessed the value of a dynamic web-based graphics solution, and the need to supply chart components for developers and HTML authors.
Before starting Visual Mining, Mr. MacDonald's work was incorporated in several large-scale software applications from AT&T, Intersolv, Hewlett-Packard, Tracor, and Shiva Corporation, as well as numerous applications within the US government and military.
In 1995, Mr. MacDonald started MJS Consulting, a computer services organization providing software support to government and Fortune 500 companies, including Sun Microsystems, Fannie Mae, National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency and several others. He has also worked for Rapid Systems Solutions Inc, Tracor Aerospace ISD and the National Security Agency as a senior research intelligence analyst.