Mike Cavanaugh graduated from Purdue University and spent thirteen years with Allis-Chalmers, forklift truck and diesel engine divisions. He also was with General Electric (GE) for almost twenty years, being trained on all the GE drives and controls. Mike was one of the forty engineers selected, out of all the GE engineers worldwide, to be one of the first GE engineers to be fully trained, in-depth, on the Fanuc control systems. Mike has worked in a variety of industries, such as; steel mills, machine tools and the marine industry. Mike was one of the leading engineers who installed the control and propulsion systems on both of the Disney ships (Disney Magic and Disney Wonder). He then went on to debug and finalize the automation systems for the US Navy Watson class ships, with the GE LM2500 gas turbine propulsion systems. On the last ship in the Watson class, the USNS Soderman, Mike converted the UNIX automation control system to a Windows based system.

The team of K.L. Woo and Mike Cavanaugh provides over 60 years of engineering experience and proven accomplishments.