Michel has been collecting stamps for nearly 60 years.  He has been a regular exhibitor for 29 years and a National Judge for 22 years.  He has been on stamp club committees in 3 countries and has been a Club Delegate to the South Australian Philatelic Council since 1979, serving on the Executive for the past 15 years.  He has been involved in drafting the current SAPC Constitution, Replaceable Rules and all By-laws to date.  Michel was awarded the Briskham award for service to South Australian philately in 1997.

In 1981 Michel was chosen as a member of a select group of four people to organise and conduct the first State Philatelic Judges Training Course, an extensive induction with monthly seminars that ran for 18 months.  Most of the graduates went on to become accredited National Judges.

For a period of 12 years Michel was the South Australian Judges' Registrar, responsible for identifying and training State judges, maintaining their accreditation, and providing judges at club and state competitions.

As well as being an exhibitor, judge, commissioner and administrator, Michel is also an occasional philatelic writer and has been the editor of the SA Frama Study Group Journal since 2004.

For the past 30 years Michel has been a trainer and mentor for youth and adult collectors as well as judges in South Australia.  He has also been invited to speak and conduct philatelic training courses in several states.

He is currently the APF One-Frame Coordinator.

Michel's successful exhibiting career started in 1982 and he first exhibited overseas in 1984.  Michel has formed extensive collections of Belgium (all periods in several classes), Australia (WW2 postal history and research exhibits and modern era) and Papua New Guinea.  To date he is the only exhibitor to have won the Australia Post Cup twice (2005 and 2009).  He was a pioneer in Social Philately, debuting at Canberra Austamp 90 and gaining an international Large Vermeil at Australia 99.

Michel has been an ardent supporter of philatelic exhibitions in South Australia since Stampex 86 and has developed philatelic products for all exhibitions since 1999, as well as serving on their committees.  Michel has been the South Australian Coordinator for all five State Challenges so far.

Michel is passionate about his hobbies and he is a driving force for the recognition of the place of picture postcards in exhibitions.  Michel has exhibited picture postcards to International level and won several Gold medals with his many exhibits.