Born in Sherman, Texas,[3] May attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University, where he played college baseball.
He served on Colorado's Information Management Commission, the Multi-Use Network, and as a charter member of the United States Internet Council.
[3] In the legislature, May also established a reputation as a quiet but consistent social and fiscal conservative[4] who focused on transportation and technology issues.
[7] Most noted for his legislative work in the area of technology, May chaired the legislature's Joint Computer Management Committee and was a member of the Colorado legislature during the installation of Internet service in the Colorado State Capitol in the 1990s.
He is credited with setting up the buildings' first wireless internet network, eliminating the need to remove interior marble facades to install new wiring.
[9][10] In 2000, May ran for the Colorado State Senate, facing activist Douglas Bruce in the Republican primary.