Stephen Michaud Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, BC, CA

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• Managed a team of 17 educational technologists and co-lead the Learning Technology Hub
• Was responsible either directly or through the Learning Technology Hub partnership for teaching and learning web strategy, development and operations, support, and learning analytics
• Was accountable for an operating budget in excess of $3 million annually
• Chaired the Beyond COVID - Learning Technology Tools working group
• Lead the evaluation of plagiarism detection and discussion learning technology tools
• Managed vendor relationships and licensing for many of the teaching and learning tools

Redwood City, CA, US

• Lead a team of 6 developers, 10 cinematic designers, and 9 animators
• Was responsible for the delivery of all cinematic content for the EA Sports title FIFA
• Coordinated dependencies across shared asset and audio teams
• Was responsible for Closed Beta and Demo releases
• Responsible for Closed Beta release

Kitchener, ON, CA

• Successfully transitioned from a start up into a new corporate home
• Was product Owner that brought Brightspace LeaP, a disruptive adaptive learning product, to market
• Confidently communicated during customer demonstrations, analyst Q&A, and conferences
• Was subject matter expert for the algorithms and heuristics, ensuring the architecture and implementation were on firm theoretical ground
• Researched and validated the predictive analytics approach of Brightspace Degree Compass, a course recommender system
• Was product Owner for key feature of central tool, Quizzing in Learning Management System

• Was founding member of a successful start-up venture
• Received four patents relating to the methods developed for adaptive learning
• Researched machine learning and semantic mapping theory and approaches
• Developed an executable model of learning to which reinforcement learning could be applied
• Devised study and simulator to validate model and algorithms
• Translated theory into concrete designs for practical implementation

London, GB

• Created user stories for an enterprise eLearning platform
• Consulted with business owners and marketing to elaborate requirements
• Collaborated with the scrum teams to ensure the timely and effective implementation of user stories
• Piloted and aided in the transition from waterfall to agile software development using Scrum with a team spanning 3 sites and time zones (EST, PST, IST)
• Guided the development of an enterprise eLearning platform for a large publishing client.
• Was responsible for the successful deployment of 11 major releases comprising 80 developers, 60 testers, and a PMO group of four mostly located in India over the span of six months (approximately $5 – $10 million budget)

Zug, CH

• Was founding member of Luxoft Canada, opened office and hired staff
• Owned profit and loss responsibility for Canadian operation with a $10 million annual operating budget
• Was responsible for the strategic direction and execution of Luxoft's Canadian operations
• Planned globally distributed software development projects
• Provided expertise and coaching for Luxoft Global SQA and Agile practices
• Organized activities of the development team of 10 locally and up to 40 offshore.

Boca Raton, Florida, US

• Managed three teams of QA analysts, an automation development team, and a third-party integrations development team
• Was responsible for the direction of QA for all WebCT’s products
• Worked with rest of the development team to adopt Agile development processes
• Implemented test case tracking tools and continuous improvement processes
• Provided coaching and feedback for 24 full time staff

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Managed a team of 5 quality and 3 software developers
• Ensured quality of Rational Software Development products (including Rational XDE, Rational Developer for Java, Rational ClearCase and others)
• Configured and maintain all Rational development products
• Developed and coach staff through their career
• Was responsible for the successful delivery of UML Model diff/merge functionality for Rational XDE

CA

• Integration Prime
• Integrated the overall project plan for a new Metro Optical Network product
• Determined resourcing conflicts for a project of 120 people and proposed solutions
• Tracked scheduling discrepancies and managed recovery plans
• Coordinated software and hardware integration testing for twenty sub-componentsProject Manager
• Organized and implemented the development of a Java graphical user interface

Master Of Educational Technology

Diploma, Management Skills In Advanced Technology

Basc, System Design Engineering