As the Director of Solutions Engineering at Masergy, Michael Long is responsible for 11 solutions engineers who perform presales design and engineering domestically and throughout the world. Michael began his career in the Army and while attending Florida State, he worked for the university building one of the nation’s first educational networks. He was also one of the first engineers hired for a startup called BellSouth.net, where he spent the next 15 years expanding his experience as an IT advisor.