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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 is a University Innovation Fellow Candidate from the 2015 cohort. As a sophomore at Rockhurst University, in [[File:Michael Brummett.jpg|thumb]]Kansas City, Missouri, he is majoring in Business Communication and Computer Engineering with a minor in Leadership Studies. Having been raised in the Kansas City Metropolitan area, he is passionate about bettering his community in any way he can. The most natural description of himself would be that of an expressive introvert- one who loves and enjoys great success in public speaking, but that inversely values time spent in contemplation.</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>
  
  
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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>
  
<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;">Very early on into his career at Rockhurst University, Michael has sought to change many aspects of the educational atmosphere as well as the student body. Having been the founder and President of organizations on campus, he looks to leave a lasting impact on his classroom, campus and community.</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>''
  
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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 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 loves to build computers and explore new technologies, speak publically and attend events on campus as well as developing meaningful relationships with his friends. For the future, he aspires to be the liaison between the administration and more technical departments for a business, and in his free time to give back to his community and serve on the city council.</span></span>
 
  
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You can find [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjbrummett Mike Brummett on LinkedIn].
  
 
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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>
 
 
 
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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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