Michael Plaisance, Pmp, Psm Email & Phone Number

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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