Michael Schroll

Entrepreneur and Future Astronaut

Flagstaff, Arizona

Education

Work Experience

  • Future Astronaut

    2022

    I’m Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut 827 looking forward to heading into space in 2026.

2022

  • Co-Founder

    2022

    Working on a new idea around Heart $$ instead of Smart $$

  • Managing Partner

    2022

    Have made over a dozen angel investments through my new firm.

2015 - 2021

  • CTO & Co-Founder

    2015 - 2021

    Cloud-Based Threat Protection and Content Filtering for MSPs, SMBs and Enterprise. DNSFilter acquired Webshrinker in 2018 - AI-Powered Crawling and Categorization which powers DNSFilter, and is sold separately as an API and local real-time database.

2015 - 2016

  • VP

    2015 - 2016

    Worked across the company to develop and execute growth strategy plans, as well as architecting our technology infrastructure to handle that growth.

2014 - 2015

  • Sr. Manual Penetration Tester

    2014 - 2015

    Hacking into websites and presenting my findings to clients.

  • Adjunct Professor

    2014 - 2014

    Taught Management Information Systems at the Wall College of Business to Junior and Senior Business Management students in Spring 2014. Regular guest lecturer for Wall College undergraduate and graduate classes, special seminars, and Professional Development Activities.

2010 - 2013

  • Co-Founder & Director of Operations

    2010 - 2013

    I did everything at SocialSci not covered by my other founders who fund-raised & developed: Focused on Product Development with Hosting & Server Management, Performance, Databases, Security, Privacy, QA, Internal IT, Internal Metrics, Customer Support, Community Relations, and more!

  • Founder & CEO

    2009 - 2010

    Award winner in Tufts Business plan competition. Worked to design a fusion of technology and LEGO blocks which could have their block connections read, and uploaded online for sharing and use in virtual worlds such as Lego Universe. While ultimately not successful due to lack of funding, it was an amazing introduction to the Entrepreneurial scene in Boston, and counts as one of the standard startup failures before success!

2009 - 2010

  • Co-Founder, Operations

    2009 - 2010

    TechStars Boston 2010 company - 1 of 11 accepted into the program. We aimed to introduce the world to next level feedback regarding website functionality and design. While not ultimately successful, TechStars was an amazing experience, and it left me in the right place at the right time to connect with the SocialSci team.