Speaker Bio
Mike is an accomplished leader, manager, collaborator, and engineer with more than 20 years of expertise in transportation technology research, development, and product implementation programs across the public and private sectors. He recently returned to the U.S. Department of Transportation to lead FMCSA's Automated Commercial Vehicle Evaluation (ACE) Program. Mike began his career working General Motors test grounds where he was responsible for integrating new chassis control technology into future high-end vehicles, and his career has followed the evolution safety technology from lower levels of automation to connectivity to the higher levels of automation and Cooperative-Automated Driving Systems. In the latter part of this journey, Mike led early Advanced Driver Assistance System and Active Safety System implementation programs at Daimler-Chrysler. He moved to NHTSA and led the USDOT's V2X safety research program from 2009-2014. Mike left NHTSA to establish a new Connected and Automated Transportation program the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). This program established a public-private partnership with 9 organizations that developed and demonstrated the first proof-of-concept Level 2 commercial truck platooning system in North America. In his final stop before joining FMCSA, Mike established and managed Peloton Technology's Texas Operations and Test Center. This center managed the regional customer acceptance test program for their L1 (driver assisted) truck platooning system and performed Verification and Validation Testing for both the Level 1 and Level 4 (self-driving) platooning systems.