About
Michael Halbrook is finding God in the Garden. This blog covers Michael's faith, ministry, and efforts at seeing God in the natural world around him.
Michael is a Catholic husband, father, writer, and musician. He lives in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri with his beautiful wife and two sons - Thomas Xavier and Matthew James. He is a music director and is currently serving as pastoral council president at Holy Family Catholic Church.
In the working world, Michael is a consultant with Omniture, a leading provider of real-time analytics solutions. Organizations worldwide rely on Omniture's Discover OnPremise analytics solutions to enable fast and detailed analytics on very large volumes of streaming and stored data. He helps data-driven clients optimize their performance through fast answers to hard questions.
Previously, he was a program manager and online ad strategist in the online group at Rodgers Townsend in St. Louis, a full service creative communications company, where he worked with clients including AT&T. Before RT, Michael worked for three years as Sr. Project Manager of interactive media at Avatar Studios, a St. Louis-based media production house. He previously worked at Worldmember and at KPNT/WVRV/KXOK St. Louis (when owned by Sinclair Broadcasting) as online director and sales promotion manager.
In his youth, Michael spent nine summers ('91-'97, '99-2000) on the summer camp staff of Trails West Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
About this Blog
Michael Halbrook lives in Granite City, IL (a steel town suburb of St. Louis, MO) and loves his God, his wife, his two sons, his family and friends, his music, and his garden. He's pastoral council president and a music director at Holy Family Church in Granite City.