Michael Plaisance, Pmp, Psm Email & Phone Number

United States

Gilbert, Az, Us

Chandler, Arizona, United States

As project manager, I conducted daily standups meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, tracked user stories, resolved issues, and provided status reports to stakeholders and senior management. ● As an Agile champion, led the team's transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies. This involved coaching team members and Product Owners on Agile principles, implementing Scrum practices, and fostering cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful project delivery. ● Managed 3 teams and collaborated with the respective Product Owners to effectively manage project scope, budget, and risk mitigation, delivering successful outcomes that surpassed customer expectations. ● Utilized JIRA for issue tracking, Trello for Kanban-style task management, and Slack for real-time team communication.

As Project Manager, I oversaw the successful launch of Preschool.org, a comprehensive authority website serving the preschool niche. ● Led SEO strategy resulting in over 3.2 million Google impressions, 70,000+ organic visitors, and #1 rankings for target keywords (including "how to start an online preschool"). ● Managed a team of writers, designers, subject matter experts (SME), and developers through the Product Life Cycle (PDLC) to create and launch an authority website in the preschool niche. ● Using a predictive framework, oversaw content production, lead generation, and keyword optimization using the WordPress CRM system.

Boise, Idaho Area

As an Associate Software Engineer, I developed innovative payroll features for Paylocity's web and mobile platforms. I developed front-end and back-end features for a large-scale enterprise SaaS application, utilizing a comprehensive toolset that included React, JavaScript, .NET, and C#.● Actively participated in Agile development processes, contributing to daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, fostering a collaborative and iterative approach to software development.● Developed robust REST API endpoints using C# and .NET frameworks, thoroughly testing functionality with Swagger and POSTman.● Designed and implemented comprehensive test suites using NUnit and Visual Studio App Center to ensure software quality and reliability.

Boise, Idaho Area

As a data scientist intern at HP, I leveraged SQL, Python, Spark, and SAS to automate ETL processes, create insightful Tableau dashboards, and deliver data-driven recommendations to stakeholders across the organization.● Used Spark, Python, and SQL to help predict when HP notebook batteries will prematurely fail.● Deployed big data solutions on AWS, leveraging cloud distributed systems for scalability and performance.● Developed a Python tool to scrub Personal Identifiable Information (PII) on sensitive data.Project: Python API tool● Developed an internal Python API tool, automating the analysis of HP’s Support Forum comments, providing valuable insights to improve customer support responses.● Utilized Spark and ETL processes to efficiently extract, transform, and load data from a data lake.● Scripted SAS workflows to immediately alert executives once a ‘1-star’ product review appeared online.

Boise, Idaho Area

I assisted students with CS concepts such as:• Understanding of object oriented programming.• Expressions and functions• Conditionals and loops, arrays and lists, and classes and interfaces. • Building GUI interfaces and UML diagrams.

Boise, Idaho Area

Working under Dr. Steven Cutchin in the BSU Computer Science department, I helped with research on image-based modeling for virtual reality systems.I helped develop a pipeline to go from capture to the final viewing inside the Oculus GearVR.

Boise, Idaho Area

• Supervised and motivated a staff of 9 business coaches.• Provided weekly training on the latest internet marketing strategies.• Developed personalized business and marketing plans for hundreds of clients.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Hult Prize, Google IgniteCS, Space Broncos Obtained a B.S. in Computer Science. Focused on three areas: •.

Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science And Technology, General

Nanodegree, Front-End Web Development

Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree - Udacity