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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4c83380a-9678-0470-64eb-753ec47067c5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Michael Brummett was a University Innovation Fellow from the founding 2015 cohort at Rockhurst University. Following his Junior year at Rockhurst in Kansas City, Missouri, Michael took an indefinite leave of absence from school to pursue a startup company full-time. His company was incorporated in early 2016, within the smart city technology sector.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4c83380a-9678-0470-64eb-753ec47067c5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Michael Brummett- who goes by Mike- was a University Innovation Fellow from the founding 2015 cohort at Rockhurst University. Following his Junior year at Rockhurst in Kansas City, Missouri, Mike took an indefinite leave of absence from school to pursue his startup company full-time. This leave was inspired after closing an $18,000 city contract with Grandview, Missouri, to outfit their public works vehicles with sensors that identified road defects such as potholes, longitudinal cracking, and overall pavement ratings with computer vision.</span></span>
  
<span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">The most natural description of himself would be</span></span><span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">that of an expressive introvert- one who loves and enjoys great success in public speaking, but that inversely values time spent in contemplation. He often refers to himself as a 'Nerd Idealist.'</span></span>
 
  
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4c83380a-9678-0470-64eb-753ec47067c5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Michael's company, Sensory AI (sensory.city), democratizes smart city technologies for cost effective use in smaller municipalities. Post-product/market fit, [[File:Mike Brummett.jpg|thumb|Mike Brummett.jpg]]his startup's most popular service places IoT sensors on city vehicles as a means to automate the slow, costly manual road inspection process.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4c83380a-9678-0470-64eb-753ec47067c5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Ever since, Mike has remained very active in the startup world as an advisor, Head of Product, PM and co-founder for nearly a dozen new software and hardware launches, from automotive marketplaces to EdTech, LegalTech and IT asset management.</span></span>
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[[File:Mike Brummett circa 2020.png|thumb|Mike Brummett]]
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4c83380a-9678-0470-64eb-753ec47067c5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">In his free time, Mike plays piano, builds home automation tools, sits in on Dungeons & Dragons games and reviews bbq restaraunts in the Kansas City metro.</span></span>
  
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<span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Some of Mike's favorite quotes include:</span></span>
  
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* ''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple."</span>'' ''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">-Oscar Wilde</span>''
  
<span id="docs-internal-guid-4c83380a-9678-0470-64eb-753ec47067c5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">In his free time, Michael plays the piano, builds home automation tools, sits in on Dungeons & Dragons games as well as reviewing bbq restaraunts in the Kansas City metro. For the long term, Michael is focused on self-improvement and learning, using his first company as a means to eventually launch another socially-minded venture, on a much larger scale.</span></span>
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* <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">''"Be ashamed to die... Until you have scored <u>some</u> victory for humanity."''</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">''-Horrace Mann (via Neil deGrasse Tyson)''</span>
  
<span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">Some of Michael's favorite quotes:</span></span>
 
  
''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple."</span>''
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You can find [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjbrummett Mike Brummett on LinkedIn].
  
''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">-Oscar Wilde</span>''
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">''"Be ashamed to die... Until you have scored some victory for humanity."''</span>
 
 
 
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent">''-Horrace Mann (via Neil deGrasse Tyson)''</span>
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 22:31, 22 August 2024

Michael Brummett- who goes by Mike- was a University Innovation Fellow from the founding 2015 cohort at Rockhurst University. Following his Junior year at Rockhurst in Kansas City, Missouri, Mike took an indefinite leave of absence from school to pursue his startup company full-time. This leave was inspired after closing an $18,000 city contract with Grandview, Missouri, to outfit their public works vehicles with sensors that identified road defects such as potholes, longitudinal cracking, and overall pavement ratings with computer vision.


Ever since, Mike has remained very active in the startup world as an advisor, Head of Product, PM and co-founder for nearly a dozen new software and hardware launches, from automotive marketplaces to EdTech, LegalTech and IT asset management.

Mike Brummett

In his free time, Mike plays piano, builds home automation tools, sits in on Dungeons & Dragons games and reviews bbq restaraunts in the Kansas City metro.

Some of Mike's favorite quotes include:

  • "The truth is rarely pure, and never simple." -Oscar Wilde
  • "Be ashamed to die... Until you have scored some victory for humanity." -Horrace Mann (via Neil deGrasse Tyson)


You can find Mike Brummett on LinkedIn.

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