Summary
Michael Lance is a seasoned IT leader with 30+ years of experience bridging technology and business needs across startups and Fortune 500 firms, with recent focus on cybersecurity, ransomware resilience, and hybrid cloud architectures. He has held senior engineering and consulting roles at Veritas, Oracle, Sun, and others, and now applies his operational and crisis-management skills as Disaster Co-Chair for Contra Costa County with the American Red Cross. A people-oriented mentor and volunteer, he’s driven by developing others and has long served youth organizations and as a state soccer referee and instructor. His background spans technical delivery, professional services, marketing, and operations, giving him a rare mix of strategic vision and hands-on systems expertise. Based in Brentwood, CA, he pairs a practical, results-oriented approach with community-first values and a stated goal of enjoying life while doing the right thing. An uncommon thread through his career is disciplined crisis readiness—rooted in Navy service and emergency volunteering—which informs his cybersecurity and disaster-preparedness work.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Organizational Behavior Studies, Organizational Behavior Studies at University of San Francisco