About Michael "Spike" Williams
Spike and his brother Rob were raised by their single-parent mother Barbara. Struggling financially, Barbara turned to public assistance to make ends meet while working and raising her two boys.
Spike married Julie Secord, a single mother with two young boys named Chris and Stephen. Together they have a daughter Nora. His older stepson, Chris Korfonta, is studying toward a degree in construction management, while working with a local custom home builder; his younger brother, Sgt. Stephen Korfonta, 1st Battalion, US Army Rangers, has recently returned from serving on his 4th combat tour (three in Iraq and one in Afghanistan). Spike's daughter, Nora, is nine years old, a student in Fairfax County public schools. Both he and Julie are involved in local community and volunteer activities such as Chairing their Home Owners Association Master Planning and Facilities & Grounds Committees and volunteering their time to a local youth association. Spike is a member of the FCRC, NVAR and an associate member of WFRWC.
Spike Williams earned a high school GED at the age of sixteen and began working in the lower-skilled labor force and the trades in Fairfax County; he considers those years to have been a valuable experience that taught him the importance of hard work. While times were sometimes tough, He looks back on those years as a reminder of the inherent dignity in an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.
Spike began an entry level position and found what would become a career in telecom in the customer provisioning department of an innovative networking company called UUNet. He excelled at his job and was recruited to manage the capacity planning group of Digital Broadcast Networks an Internet startup company in St. Louis that was building out its thirtyeight POP domestic network backbone.
Spike’s ingenuity, organization, attention to detail and effective negotiation skills didn’t go unnoticed and he was offered a position as EcoPlex’s Chief Technology Officer. In this role he implemented management, allocation and facility space tracking procedures, managed the Technology Installation and Integration Department, helped to design and develop the criteria for Data Center or Collocation space to be leased and or purchased in a fifty location Data Center Build-out.
When the "dot-com" bubble burst in 2000 Spike divided his career focus to include mortgage banking and real estate, an industry in which his wife Julie was enjoying success. In 2004 Julie and Spike teamed with his brother Rob and his wife Robyn to create Williams Realty, a successful Real Estate Brokerage based in Herndon. Spike continues to work in the enterprise network industry for Orange Business Services as a project manager for their Customer Support and Operations group a team of fifteen members all around the world.
Spike has spoken out against high-density housing in the Fox Mill corridor, the unrelenting traffic congestion and the growing need for open lines of communication about the proposed school redistricting. He has been working along with other area Realtors to get the Association Health Plan bill passed that would allow small businesses to band together with each other for their health care and gain access to pricing that is currently only available to larger businesses. His belief is that the concerns that we have for our community should be addressed as a whole, not as individual issues that exist in a vacuum.
A balanced future for Fairfax County including economic prosperity and an enjoyable quality of life for its residents relies upon understanding the synergy that exists between living, working, growing and playing.