Mike is a 1990 graduate from USL (now UL), with a degree in Business Administration.  After college, he obtained a job at Reed Tool Company as a drill bit salesman and worked in both Lafayette and Houma.  In 1994, Mike joined forces with his father's business, Moncla Well Service, a workover company with seven workover rigs.  For the next 15 years, Mike, his father Charlie, and the rest of the Moncla clan grew their family business through 11 acquisitions into the largest privately owned workover company in the United States.  Mike was Chief Operating Officer for the business that serviced seven different states.  In late 2007, Moncla Companies sold its business to Key Energy Services, where Mike then served as Division Manager for Key Energy's Southeastern Division.  In 2010, Mike, along with his two brothers & uncle, got back into the family business again by purchasing their previously owned 6 workover barge rigs back from Key Energy.  Today, Moncla Workover & Drilling operates 27 land rigs with offices in Lafayette, LA, Laurel, MS, Lagrange, TX and Seminole, TX.  In 2020, Mike took on a second job as VP of Marketing at DrilTech, a full-service directional drilling company.   

As a member of the Executive Board for LOGA, Mike was chosen by the Board as the President in September 2020.  Mike is also on the board for Lourdes Hospital, the Past-Chairman of the Lourdes Foundation, and the current Chairman of the Foundation Board at St. Thomas More Catholic High School.  He is a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church.  He is married and has one daughter.