"Mike" Michael L. Baird (bairdphotos.com, flickr.bairdphotos.com, mikebaird.com, morro-bay.com, kayak.morro-bay.com, dchoc.org) is an avid amateur photographer, specializing in nature, wildlife, people, and surf photography along the California Central Coast. He works as a State Park Docent, leading digital photo nature walks and helping the docent organization with his knowledge of the Internet, computers, and photography. Mike was the engineering vice-president at ask.com, CTO of Snap-on Diagnostics, and is the author of a 19-year best-selling entrepreneurship book entitled Engineering Your Start-up: A Guide for the High-Tech Entrepreneur (eysu.org).