Mike Somerville
I consider myself to be a fairly accomplished Senior Executive, Entrepreneur, Consultant, and Board Member with more than 35 years of success in the technology, radio, TV, IT, cloud, and start-up industries.
WITH A LOT OF ROOM TO GROW! I love learning. Anything. Especially if it allows me to add value - ideally globally.
Leveraging extensive experience as a global IT leader I'm considered a valuable asset for start-ups or small to mid-sized technology or consumer-focused companies based in or looking to do business in SE Asia, with a focus mainly on Thailand but of course the near-by Southeast Asia HUB of innovation: Singapore. I have developed a knack to help translate business needs to highly technical staff.
Overall I'd say my areas of expertise include engineering, team building, obsession with world-class customer service, communications, enterprise software, engineering management, global strategy, and organizational leadership.
Currently, I have a residence in Bangkok, Thailand and am involved in several "tech" projects. I have a passion for Revitalizing the Radio Industry with a new definition of "Radio". In 2020, I founded the fully English speaking Internet Radio station that originates from Bangkok: BKK.FM
Shortly thereafter my team is re-birthing a heritage radio property 91.75 KISS FM in the very popular vacation and party city: Pattaya, Thaialnd. These two properties are now the foundational brands for what will become South East Asia's newest radio network.
Prior to this permanent move to Thailand in Novemver of 2019 I was the Chief Cloud Evangelist & IT Manager of Systems Support at the University of San Diego (USD). I was honred and blessed to have a team of IT athletes and together we were responsible for the architecture and administration of the entire IT infrastructure on campus including all servers and network storage, over four data centers in San Diego, California and Phoenix, Arizona as well as extensive Cloud infrastructure extending to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft AZURE & the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Prior to my work at USD, I owned an IT consulting company (BiG I, Inc.) with offices in San Diego, CA and San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico.
During this time my team and I provided high-speed wireless Internet to families living in 100% Solar powered communities.
Mike Somerville
June 30, 2022
Industry Voices
Specific to the “Radio Industry” that I still consider myself a part of I am CONSTANTLY amazed that people stay intentionally unaware of the huge global beneift to TikTok. In general I laugh when I hear someone older than me make a statement like, “That’s just for kids”. Its a …
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Mike Somerville
June 24, 2022
Industry Voices
Travel Globally (as in, the “other side of the world” from where you are right now) at least 3 times before you are 30 and RISK IT ALL (at least twice) before you are 40. My 50 year old self tells my younger self that A LOT now 😉
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Mike Somerville
June 20, 2022
Industry Voices
ESPECIALLY in SE Asia, I see an enormous amount of opportunity for improving the quality of the lives of milliions through technology. Sure, that may sound like a pretty broad brush BUT the deeper my team and I get into designing our app the will leverage the API(s) of wildly …
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Mike Somerville
June 10, 2022
Industry Voices
In my specific vertical of “Cloud & Digital Transformation”. I’m amazed that there are still people that believe having data “on premises” is more secure than in the cloud. Even as recently as last week, I had a very seasoned technical leader say, “I know the cloud can potentially save …
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