Michael Heydt
mheydt@du.edu

M.S. Drexel University, is a technology manager and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience identifying the next wave of technology and working with businesses to adapt existing system and processes to take advantage of emerging technologies to gain competitive advantage through increased agility. Heydt has extensive global consulting experience, having consulted for and managed product and software development on a global basis including Korea, India, Europe and Canada. Heydt is also an expert in Microsoft distributed technologies (.NET), and has been published several times in Microsoft Internet Developer magazine. Heydt is an accomplished technology trainer previously having several certifications in Microsoft technologies and certification training, and has been adjunct faculty at the University of Denver for over ten years where he teaches graduate level courses in telecommunications and information systems. Heydt is a graduate of The Wharton School of Business with an Executive MBA in Technology Management where he studied agile product development with applications to technology systems, and an honored graduate of Drexel University with an MS in Computer Science and Mathematics. (CIS)