In addition to being President and General Manager of the company, Mike has acted as Project Manager on such projects as the American Embassies in Prague, Bucharest and Beijing; the Legislative Building (State Capitol) in Olympia, the Puget Sound Bank Plaza in Seattle, and IBM Building in Seattle. Mike holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Building Construction from the University of Washington, done graduate work towards a Master’s in Business Administration at Seattle University, and has been with Pioneer Masonry for 31 years. During his tenure at Pioneer, the company has performed restoration projects on over 8,000 buildings. Mike is on the board of trustees of the Western Washington Trowel Trades Apprenticeship Board and the regional board of the International Masonry Institute.