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Mike attended Ball State University and Naval Nuclear Power School Served in US Navy Five-time startup entrepreneur: White River Technology Group, Indy Associates (first digital agency and seo agency in midwest), Professional Blog Service (first social media agency in midwest), Virtual Payment Systems (payment processing for law firms) and PivotCX. Served as Director of Development for DirectEmployers and as lead platform architect for National Labor Exchange and DirectTraffic products Developed international HR tech integration standards while serving on Board of Directors for the HR Open Standards Consortium Currently serves as Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at WorkHere Short Mike Seidle is a co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at WorkHere.

Mike is responsible for the design and development of WorkHere’s conversational marketing software and services. Prior to starting WorkHere, In 1998, Mike launched Indy Associates, Indiana’s first digital advertising agency. In 2005, Mike founded Professional Blog Service, Indiana’s first social media agency. In 2009, Mike joined DirectEmployers as Director of Development and served on the HR Open Standards Board of Director. While at DirectEmployers, Mike helped build and manage over 43,000 job boards and career websites as well as the National Labor Exchange, which connects all 54 State and protectorate Job Banks with over 20,000 private sector employers.

In Detail A Native of Muncie Indiana, Mike started professionally developing software at age 16, building vascular diagnostic software for Portable Medical Software. Mike started at Ball State University and founded White River Technology Group, his first company, in 1990. In 1992 Mike entered the US Navy and attended Naval Nuclear Power School in Orlando, Florida, earning an honorable discharge in 1994. Mike brings a unique mix of technical, and sales and marketing leadership to Work Here. In 1996, Mike started with Vanstar and held various positions starting as an inside sales rep, eventually being named regional corporate manager.

In addition to selling and sales management, Mike was highly involved in Inacom’s eCommerce, customer relationship management, and sales automation efforts. In 1999, Inacom filed for bankruptcy and Mike joined Indianapolis-based CRM integrator Expanse, Inc as VP of Sales and Marketing. At Expanse, Mike doubled sales in his first year and doubled profits while continuing to increase sales in year two. Mike also leveraged his ability to build software and developed one of the first integrated web, CRM and email marketing systems that served as Expanse’s main source of new business and helped Expanse rise to be a global Top 10 Goldmine Partner.

In 2002, Mike started Indy Associates, a digital marketing agency focused on lead generation, SEO, social media, content marketing strategies built on open source technologies. Indy Associates customers included RCI, ETS, Microsoft, JiST Publishing (a publisher of the Occupational Outlook Handbook for the US Department of Labor), and many other companies. Mike was highly involved in all phases of Indy Associates business including sales, marketing, developing client marketing campaigns, graphic design, and software development. While at Indy Associates, Mike built and spun off Linking Indiana, an Indiana focused social network, Virtual Payment Systems, a credit card processor for law firms, Professional Blog Service, a social media marketing firm. Mike currently serves on the Board of Directors for Virtual Payment Systems.

In 2010, Mike joined DirectEmployers as a Senior User Experience Engineer and was quickly promoted to Director of Development. While at DirectEmployers, Mike was responsible for managing the development of two products: DirectTraffic, a job ad analytics system and the National Labor Exchange, a 1.8 million job per day aggregator network delivering jobs from and to 19,000 private sector employers and all 54 US State and Protectorate governments. In 2011, Mike joined the HR Open Standards Consortium (HROS) seeking to champion standardization to simplify National Labor Exchange operations.

In 2012, Mike was elected to the HROS Board of Directors and was responsible for establishing the HROS Government initiative which has led to the adoption of International standards for job, candidate and payroll data in most US States, and the European Union. Mike served until January 2015 when he left to start WorkHere where he serves as Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer.