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==About Me==
 
==About Me==
 
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==Personal Info==
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===Activities===
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*H-Vision (sound and anchor)
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*Robotics Club
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*volunteer in People's Light lighting department
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*develop Tecker, run ThePlaz.com
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===Interests===
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*Computers (GUI, coding, PHP, MySQL)
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*Technical Theater
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*Academics
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*Leadership
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===Favorite Music===
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*Soundtracks Mostly
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*Some Pop
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*Some classical (while working)
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===Favorite TV Shows===
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====Involved In====
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*H-Vision
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*Tecker 911
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====TV Mainstream====
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*The Amazing Race
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*Survivor
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*Avatar
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*Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
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====TV Niche====
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*How it's Made
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*Beyond Tomorrow
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*The Screen Savers
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====Computer====
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*tWiT
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*DL.tv
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*Cranky Geeks
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===Favorite Movies===
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(Don't get to watch too many movies)
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*The Incredibles and all other Pixar movies except Finding Nemo
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*The Harry Potter Series
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===Favorite Books===
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====Fiction====
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Branded Nation (& others by James Twitchell)
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*Fast Food Nation
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====Non Fiction====
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*Harry Potter Series
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*Alex Rider Adventures
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... and more
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===Favorite Quotes===
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See [[Quotes]]
  
 
==Accounts on other sites==
 
==Accounts on other sites==

Revision as of 18:51, 21 October 2006

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I'm Michael Plasmeier, otherwise known as ThePlaz. Welcome to my page. I know it is boring now, but I don't have the time now to imporve it. I am constantly doing work and adding stuff to my site.

YOU can help: Edit my page

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About Me

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Michael Plasmeier
"ThePlaz"
Yahoo APM: Membership and Geo Platforms

My name is Michael Plasmeier, but almost everyone calls me Plaz. I am a Associate Product Manager at Yahoo - working on the Membership and Geo-related platforms teams. I graduated from MIT in 2013 in Computer Science and Management. I am halfway between the tech and the business world, doing both web development and product development. My interest in doing both started while I was working on GridView, an app I built after 10th Grade that reached 1.3 million users on Facebook.

Internships

Last IAP, I was a Software Development Extern doing testing in Ruby on the back end at CardSpring. Last summer, I was Product Manager at Disney Parks and Resorts Online where I worked on a project for Disney Cruise Line. Last January, I worked in management/strategy consulting at Altman Vilandrie & Company. The previous summer, I was a web developer at NextJump, an online affiliate advertising firm in New York. Prior to that, I was an extern in the Office of the Chief Scientist at State Street. My freshman summer I worked at Deutsche Bahn, the German national railroad, where I designed the smartphone version Touch&Travel, an app that lets you pay for the train with your phone.

MIT

At MIT I was heavily involved in classes, usually taking 7 classes a term, while being involved in student government. (I wrote about how I do it in Working out a System.) senior was dedicated to wrapping up requirements. Junior year at MIT I focused on EECS classes, as well as being elected president of Baker House. My second year at MIT focused on management classes. I was also involved in the vendor selection and implementation of the new dining plan. Freshman year, I took core classes and served on the Athena and Printing Committee. (I wrote about just hanging on freshmen year in Learning to Learn.)

Websites

I built a lot of web projects in high school. My most popular project, was GridView [1], an app for Facebook which lets you add the profile pics of all of you're friends to your Facebook profile. GridView had over 1.3 million users and made me some money.

I hosted and produced the video podcast Tecker 911 [2] along with some of my friends. Tecker 911 was a series of 100 5-15 minute shows each which covers a technology topic in a way which is relevant for ordinary people, with a focus towards students and our community. Tecker 911 was also shown on our local public access channel Channel 11.

I started SeniorQuoter, [3] an open-source web application for senior quotes collections for high school yearbooks. In 11th Grade, I lead a Dynamic Website Building Instruction and Practical Experience Group Study at my high school. I helped 4 other students learn PHP and MySQL and then I project managed version 2 of SeniorQuoter, the administration interface.

Tecker and Conflicter were question and answer services I built in 10th Grade. They never really caught on, but they were the perfect way to learn PHP. Dictionary Robot is something I tarted last year, but abandoned later. In 10th Grade, I was a member of Team 484 and in 11th Grade I was their webmaster.

In 8th and 9th Grades I wrote bunch of programs for the TI-83+.

Tech

My first two years at MIT, I was a regular on The Weekly Spin, a weekly take on tech stories and tech policy.

On my Tech page I have had a few pages about Devices I own and other small things that I have built. For example, I also made some improvements for MediaWiki, the software that runs ThePlaz.com and Wikipedia. I made a new skin for MediaWiki and a few MediaWiki extensions


Other Accounts

I also tag a lot of stories on Delicious. I also have over 70,000 photos on Flickr. I Tweet kinda regularly. I also post things to YouTube. And of course I have a Facebook. It all comes together on my FriendFeed.

Personal Info

Activities

  • H-Vision (sound and anchor)
  • Robotics Club
  • volunteer in People's Light lighting department
  • develop Tecker, run ThePlaz.com

Interests

  • Computers (GUI, coding, PHP, MySQL)
  • Technical Theater
  • Academics
  • Leadership

Favorite Music

  • Soundtracks Mostly
  • Some Pop
  • Some classical (while working)

Favorite TV Shows

Involved In

  • H-Vision
  • Tecker 911

TV Mainstream

  • The Amazing Race
  • Survivor
  • Avatar
  • Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

TV Niche

  • How it's Made
  • Beyond Tomorrow
  • The Screen Savers

Computer

  • tWiT
  • DL.tv
  • Cranky Geeks

Favorite Movies

(Don't get to watch too many movies)

  • The Incredibles and all other Pixar movies except Finding Nemo
  • The Harry Potter Series

Favorite Books

Fiction

Branded Nation (& others by James Twitchell)

  • Fast Food Nation

Non Fiction

  • Harry Potter Series
  • Alex Rider Adventures

... and more

Favorite Quotes

See Quotes

Accounts on other sites

My ThePlaz.com Userboxes

See also my wikipedia user boxes.
MCM Logo.gif This user is a member of the MCM Club.
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This user is a member of the Haverford High School Robotics Club!
Haverford Crest small.jpg This user goes to Haverford High School.
Tecker Logo.png This user is an employee of Tecker.

Contact Me

Leave Plaz a (public) message File icon.gif or send me a (private) e-mail. Mail icon.gif

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