About Your Instructor

Michael Panitz comes to Cascadia from a business background. Mr. Panitz has experience with Microsoft and Lucent Technologies as a software development engineer. He has provided instruction in computer programming and mathematics for Cascadia students for many years. Mr. Panitz has a Master of Engineering, and a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in Computer Science. He has taught at the University of Washington-Bothell and the University of Washington-Tacoma in addition to teaching at Cascadia for several years.

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary [people]. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary [person]." Elbert Hubbard (with the masculine pronoun replaced with something gender-neutral)