Michael is a Senior Planner at Kittelson & Associates, where he works on transportation projects in Southern California and the Bay Area. He has been a member of the APA-Orange chapter board since 2020, where he previously served as the Young and Emerging Planners (YEP) co-coordinator; he currently serves on the 2022 conference planning committee. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from UCI and his Master of Urban and Regional Planning (Transportation Concentration) from UCLA.