A Certified Culinarian of the American Culinary Federation(ACF), Michael has Executive Chef experience with at hotels, Country Clubs and has been the opening Chef at several local restaurants.  Michael also enjoys giving back and does that in many ways, primarily through his participation in many local fund raisers and through mentoring and teaching. He has been an Adjunct faculty member at Metro Community College in the Culinary Arts Department where he is committed to “molding the young minds of future chefs.” His proudest accomplishments come from the graduation and further advancement of the apprentices that he has had the opportunity to train. He has mentored High School Pro-start culinary teams and helped guide his team to a first place win regionally.  He has also taught many Continuing Education cooking classes just to share his love and passion of food with other local “foodies.”