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Michael Speed Elder was born in Houston, Texas in 1986, and has lived there most of his life.  He attended Trinity University in San Antonio for his undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Communication.

During the summers between high school years, Michael was active with internships at The Stehlin Foundation for Cancer Research and The Houston Museum of Natural Science before a brief stint at Freesprung Media, a web development division of the Gimmal Group, where he discovered his passion for crafting the web.

In college, he became involved with writing and acting for both stage and screen productions.  His theater performances include mainstage roles in The Madwoman of Chaillot and You Can't Take It With You as well as a black box original performance of Stephen Brown's Man Talk.  Michael worked closely with Trinity's student run TigerTV television station, contributing several packages to their weekly half hour comedy series The Not-So-Late Show, including “Snakes on a Campus”, “Saw 3D: The Early Years 2”, and “Dean Tuttle's Crush”.

He was promoted to manage TigerTV's web content for two years, during which time he updated the site to make all of the shows available online.  For his Capstone project in Communication, he helped create, produce and write the dramatic parody show Found (where this site originally gets it's name).  He is also fond of making appearances with the student sketch comedy group First Time Offenders.

Currently, Michael works as a freelance web developer, with ongoing projects in several states.  He has had the opportunity to serve as a Teaching Assistant at Trinity University, edit textbooks on introductory programming logic, and contribute to Trinity's annual high school programming competition.  Michael loves that other people think what he does is “work;”  he has them all fooled.

Free time is typically filled by writing, watching reruns of House and The West Wing, sailing on Canyon Lake, and friends (when human contact is unavoidable).  He enjoys writing paragraphs in the third person, and wonders if this is what nirvana feels like.

And yes, “Speed” really is his middle name.