Summary
Mike Toole is a Director of Security & IT with a decade of hands-on experience architecting scalable, secure infrastructure for fast-growing security companies. Based in Ann Arbor, he rose through operational and leadership roles at Duo Security, Cisco, Censys, and Blumira, combining systems engineering, network design, and IT security into pragmatic, auditable solutions. He excels at building global platforms and remote-first operations that balance rapid growth with risk management, and he has a background managing PCI environments, IDS, and ESXi infrastructure. A former firefighter turned technologist, Mike brings a practical, mission-oriented mindset to incident response and resilience planning.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Fire Science, Fire Science at Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Davenport University