Mike Dauplaise was already working at the Green Bay Press-Gazette when he graduated in 1984 with a B.A. in Communications. His 13-year newspaper career included time in the sports, news, features and copy desk departments, providing a broad range of experience from which to draw.

After stops at the Wausau Daily Herald and the Green Bay News-Chronicle, as well as a return trip to the Press-Gazette, Mike went into the less hectic corporate communications world at St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay. He immediately began contributing as a freelance writer for local and regional newspapers and magazines, including St. Norbert Magazine, and that business continued to grow.

Eventually, corporate and publication demand was sufficient to allow Mike to become a full-time, home-based freelance writer. His regular corporate client list includes Schreiber Foods and St. Norbert College. Projects include everything from articles, brochures and other print pieces, to Web projects and video scripts.

In 2008, he released his first book, "Bodyguard to the Packers - Beat Cops, Brett Favre and Beating Cancer," with Jerry Parins, the Green Bay Packers' long-time director of security, and in 2009 he released a true crime thriller entitled "Torture at the Back Forty," the story of a famous Green Bay murder case that ended up as one of the first captures on America's Most Wanted.