Michael Butler currently serves as the Director of the E. Desmond Lee Technology and Learning Center and Website Manager for the College of Education at the University of Missouri--St.. Louis. He has more than 18 years of technology experience which includes management and educational growth activities at all levels for teachers, students, parents, and administrators.

Additionally Michael has a consulting company, "Butler Consulting Group" which focuses on Technology Today for Advancement Tomorrow. The company provides consultative services in variuos areas of technology, to businesses and academic institutions. These services include designing web sites, technical support, hosting, desktop publishing, graphic design and training. Michael has provided web services (classroom web sites) to educators who otherwise had no affordable way to post web pages for their students and parents.