The ability to imagine and engineer ideas to realise the desired outcome and meet specified criteria for practical purposes…
This is the art of Imagineering…
Well travelled and with worldly experience both in work and play,
Mike has been a globe-trotting adventurer and entrepreneur since graduating from college.
He has been exposed to all types of business & sales,
has been involved with numerous ground-breaking initiatives & start-ups,
and has built, been part of, and managed several outstanding teams around the world.
He is involved with a number of successful businesses & visionary escapades,
is a veteran of the digital revolution,
and is adept at public speaking & presentations.
Let’s Collaborate
Imagination, innovative thinking, creativity, experience, understanding, resourcefulness, focus, dedication, belief, faith & madness blend together to form a melting pot from which the most incredible ideas manifest into reality.
Latest Start-Ups in the Algarve, Portugal
Algarve Business Awards
We were pleased to receive the Sustainability Award as well as Runners Up for Best New Business for Algarve Solar Pool Heating at the 2022 Algarve Business Awards.
Champagne from the Sky
In a meeting with the owners of Spy Manor Productions, I was asked if it would be possible to land a parachute at their 007 themed villa, dressed as James Bond.
We had a custom ‘Spy Manor’ branded parachute and helmet made, did some practice jumps, obtained the necessary approvals, then delivered a bottle of Champagne from the sky for the International Motor Film Awards event at Spy Manor.
Jury Member 2021 – 2022 – 2023 – 2024 – 2025
ART & TUR is a global competition dedicated to the recognition of excellence in all audiovisual content related to tourism promotion and destination branding.
Founder & Drop Zone Operator 2014 – 2020
As Drop Zone operator for Mother City SkyDiving – Cape Town, I oversaw and was responsible for daily operations, marketing, media and public relations as well as all aspects of more than 20 000 descents averaging 14 tandem skydives per day of operation, more than 100 skydiving displays and a number of international movie / advert shoots, all with an unblemished safety record, and zero staff turnover.
Our promo video, “Let’s Jump out of a Plane…”, was awarded 1st place in the category Sport & Adventure Tourism at the International Tourism Film Festival Africa (ITFFA) 2020.
Mike Rumble – Adventure Tourism South Africa Personified (article)
SATSA‘s 50th Anniversary Conference – 2019
“The Dependable Umbrellas of the Sky” (conference presentation)
How nature gives us all the clues;
how parachutes have been, and continue to be a part of modern day life;
and how all of this relates to tourism today (2019).
Since 2019 I have provided digital communications consulting services, and have assisted Val De Vie Estate with their digital communications strategy.
Val de Vie Estate is a multiple award winning secure luxury residential and outdoor lifestyle estate occupying 917 hectares situated between Stellenbosch, Paarl and Franschhoek in the Cape Winelands of South Africa.
Provided consultancy services to Marksman’s Nest in the business planning and start-up phase, for what has become a fully accredited Firearm Training Centre providing coaching and instruction for individuals and groups, from basic firearms training through to certified law enforcement security training, K9 and anti-poaching ranger training.
At a time of an escalating rhino poaching crisis, an updated career path with structured, approved, recognised training and qualifications for game rangers was required.
Approved in 2015, the Anti-Poaching Ranger & Anti-Poaching Manager training and certification deals with the requirements of going up against modern, heavily armed and equipped, highly organised and increasingly determined poachers.
I was part of a team working with various stakeholders, bodies and organisations, as well as industry leaders and experts in the fields of game ranging and anti-poaching, to formalise and certify these much needed new training programmes and qualifications, which allow for accredited training of rangers both locally and internationally.
During this time I also consulted for and assisted the International Anti-Poaching Foundation with their digital communications strategy.
“The greatest invention in rugby since the kicking tee replaced the bucket of sand”
Provided consultancy services in the business planning and start-up phase and assisted with Centre for Human Performance Sciences sport science testing, to develop what is now a globally recognised brand, built from the ground up now with 8 international patents and a registered trademark in multiple countries.
A revolutionary rugby training aid, ShadowBall has impacted the culture and training habits of some of the world’s top sports teams.
Synergy Moon was formed in 2010 as a team competing for the US$30M Google Lunar X Prize.
The challenge called for privately funded teams to soft-land a robotic spacecraft on the Moon, travel 500 metres and transmit images, video, data, an sms and an email back to Earth.
I became involved from 2016 to assist with communications strategy, sponsorship presentations and introductions to potential sponsors.
Synergy Moon was one of five finalists (out of an original 33 entrants) with a verified launch contract.
As none of the five final teams were able to launch their vehicles by the 31st March 2018 deadline, the US$30M worth of prizes went unclaimed.
FreeFly Astronaut Project (FFAP)
Space Emergency Rescue Solutions (SERS)
A multiple aeronautic & astronautic record breaking endeavour to fly Higher, Longer and Faster whilst developing the human capability, procedures, protocols, equipment and technology to enable future space travellers to return safely from high-altitude / low-Earth-orbit in the event of a space emergency.
I have been part of the core team, alongside the founder Olav Zipser, and involved in every aspect of this project since 2012.
World AirNews is Africa’s oldest, largest & widest-circulating aviation magazine.
I provided a consultation service to World AirNews for six years, overseeing and implementing the digitisation and digital distribution of the World AirNews Magazine.
Logistics & Operations Manager – 2012 National Campaign
The ‘SkyDive for Rhinos’ Campaign grew into the largest and most successful public fundraising and awareness campaign for South Africa’s endangered Rhinos, and became the largest concerted effort for a good cause in South African skydiving history.
The campaign saw five events in five provinces over two months, with an additional sixth event being added due to popular demand. The campaign also included at the Margate, Virginia, and Africa Aerospace and Defence Airshows.
Numerous public figures, sporting stars, actors, actresses, models, television and radio personalities, presenters, schools, colleges, universities, pensioners, archaeologists, producers, DJs, artists, conservationists, Company Directors and CEOs participated.
The campaign was featured in (and often on the front page of) local, provincial, and national newspapers (including the front page of the Sunday Times); in various magazines; in on-line blogs, websites, and e-newsletters; on numerous local, and several national radio stations; on national television; and live on SABC Morning / Weekend Live when SABC Sports presenter Vaylen Kirtley made a Tandem ‘SkyDive for Rhinos’ on World Rhino Day.
Close on R 7 Million was raised toward strategic Rhino anti-poaching efforts in South Africa.
In 2006 I was headhunted and tasked with setting up and managing a high profile parachute display team for Garmin South Africa.
Flying Garmin branded parachutes with the slogan “you’ll be lost without it”, the JumpGarmin SkyDiving Team infiltrated high profile motoring, marine, sport & fitness and airshow events nationally, delivering excellent ROI for the brand by being incorporated at prime time… to often scoop front page media and live TV exposure.
The JumpGarmin SkyDiving Team is regarded as being the most innovative and successful partnership between skydivers and a major sponsor of display skydiving in South Africa to date.
A Life Less Ordinary – G-Tribe Launch – 2010
Expedition Photographer
Digital Mapping
Georeferencing Mapping Data
A diplomatic FIFA Legacy Project in the run up to the 2010 South African Soccer World Cup, the Kingsley Holgate led ‘Boundless Southern Africa Expedition‘ was an initiative to link and unite ‘Nature, Culture and Community’ across Southern Africa.
The expedition travelled through nine countries, seven Transfrontier Conservation Areas and more than thirty National Parks and Nature Reserves whilst distributing water carrying school lap top desks, water purifying life drinking straws, mobile community box libraries, reading glasses, mosquito nets and malaria prevention education.
Along the way the expedition team upgraded some 30 soccer pitches, and hosted numerous community soccer challenges.
Driving a fully kitted out Garmap & Garmin branded LandRover 90 I was the expedition photographer and also compiled digital mapping and georeferenced data for Garmin / Garmap and the Peace Parks Foundation.
National Geographic Explorer and Expedition Leader Kingsley Holgate described the route as
“one of the greatest 4×4 adventure routes in the World”
The family-owned Ranch Resort is a 150 bedroom 4-star hotel, leisure, sports, exhibition, conservation and conferencing centre within a 1,000 hectare nature conservancy.
For close on two decades I provided all photography requirements, website design services, SEO, digital marketing, and consulted on marketing and corporate communications.
FullHouse Imaging – 2000 – 2008
Founder & Director
At the dawn of the digital revolution, armed with an early digital camera and a laptop computer, I founded a specialist digital imaging and digital media presentations company.
Over a period of 8 years, eventually with 3 partners and a team of 10, FullHouse Imaging brought groundbreaking ideas, an ever evolving range of state of the art interactive imagery and innovative digital media to market, for an extremely diverse array of clients throughout Africa.
Amongst other things, we were pioneers of interactive VR imagery, and amongst the first to georeference high-resolution 360 x 360 imagery to precise location in Google Earth. Long before street view existed!
View some of our high resolution virtual tours across Southern Africa
