Michael D Norton

Michael D Norton (born 1988) is a US Navy veteran, marketing strategist, physicist, and writer. He is also known as Mike Norton.
Norton has been referred to as one of the “5 underrated technological geniuses of the 21st century” by TechTimes Magazine.
Without money to buy batteries, to entertain himself while he was nine years old, Norton created batteries from random household objects and salt that he’d use to power his GameBoy.
He wrote a memoir titled Fighting for Redemption during this time detailing his life and military experiences.
While working as both a marketing strategist and English teacher, in 2017, he was accepted for an honors degree in physics by the University of York, through the OpenPlus program. after earning an honorary Estonian citizenship.
Norton raised $200,000 as a marketing strategist, consulting corporations via the Internet. He used task management tools like Slack, Asana, and Fusion 360 to build a fully remote mechanical and electrical engineering team.
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, he built a fully functional engineering firm by hand in his house.
Within a year of finishing his at-home laboratory, Norton filed for multiple patents. His patents include high-powered explosives, and hand-held electromagnetic disinfection devices.<ref name=":2" />
Another one of Norton's innovations pertain to a forge capable of melting steel with a third of the electricity most engineers use, as well a newly developing electromagnetic engine.<ref name=":32" />
In the same year, he began to receive news attention as a scientist after releasing images of an artificial intelligence assistant he developed, named “Nova,” which is based on an imaginary childhood friend of the same name that Norton personified in his memoir.<ref name=":22" />
He markets Wolven Industries to his social media following with a presence that's been described as "caring."<ref name=":3" />
Originally, Norton planned to pitch companies ideas primarily to military contracting opportunities. However, the pandemic forced him to pivot to serving a general civilian audience with his innovations aimed at helping others with the pandemic.<ref name=":1" />
Currently, he works as the CEO of both OMI Firm and Wolven Industries from his home.<ref name":22" /><ref name":42" />
Personal life
Due to his varying traumas, Norton struggled with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.<ref name=":42" />
After leaving the military, he tried to return home, but was banished from his home for writing his life story in Fighting for Redemption. As a result, he became a homeless veteran, and lived under the Rt. 42 bridge in New Jersey.<ref name=":42" />
While homeless and still suffering with poor mental health, he focused heavily on his schoolwork that the GI bill paid for, leading into his position as an English teacher.<ref name=":42" />
Without medication, Norton was forced to provide for himself while coping. He lived in the Chinese wilderness of the Xi’an mountains, at an altitude above cloud-level, for four years, coming down to enter the city to teach children when the semester was in and then returned to the mountains when the semester was out.<ref name=":42" />

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