Michael Simmons

Birth Name: Michael A. Simmons

Michael A. Simmons (born 8 April 1978) is an American entrepreneur, businessman, investor, author, public speaker, inventor, and computer scientist. He is the grandson of 20th century business and rad ...Show More

Michael A. Simmons (born 8 April 1978) is an American entrepreneur, businessman, investor, author, public speaker, inventor, and computer scientist. He is the grandson of 20th century business and radio mogul Allen T. Simmons.Simmons has always had a love of Christmas ever since he was a child. In 2007, he learned that he could take his two passions - Computers and Christmas Lights and combine them to make Christmas lights synchronized to holiday music and make them "dance." In 2010, his private residential Christmas lights show was named "Best Christmas Lights Display in America" by The Early Show on CBS. Then in 2013, he and his family was featured on Episode 2 of "The Great Christmas Light Fight." Simmons also is co-founder of HiTech Lights - a holiday and special events animated lighting and decorating company, which is also a Light-O-Rama Certified Partner.Most recently he is the CEO of Techprise, one of the largest privately-held Computer, Information Technology, and Internet products and solutions companies in the United States. Techprise celebrated its 20th year anniversary in 2010 (1990-2010).Simmons started his first business when he was 12 years old. At age 16, he made his first million before graduating his sophomore year from Palm Springs High School.In late 1991, as one of the pioneers of the World Wide Web, Simmons operated one of the first commercial Web servers on the Internet. He worked with Tim Berners-Lee and CERN in the development of the open standards for the World Wide Web and the Web browser and Web server. He also worked closely with Marc Andreessen and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in the development of Mosaic, the first widely-used Web browser. Andreessen later founded Netscape Communications where Mosaic became known as Netscape. The Netscape Web browser later became known today as Mozilla Firefox. Hide