Michael Quincy Larson

Pangea helps ambitious working professionals continue their education, train for new careers, and land highly technical positions at multinational corporations.

Pangea's platform focuses on asynchronous distance learning offerings to reach busy learners, both domestic and abroad. Our academic focus is on the engineering and financial professions.

Pangea is an early-stage Software-as-a-Service startup based in San Francisco, California.

+ Worked along side an experienced team of engineers, shipping sprint stories and performing bug fixes within a large, complex codebase.
+ Practiced Test-Driven Development and Agile methodologies through planning, development and QA cycles
+ Full stack web development, primarily using the following technologies: Ruby, Rails, Git, Bash, Javascript.

+ Conducted market validation and development toward MVP for contextually sensitive instant quiz generation
+ Primary technologies used: Python, Django, Natural Language Tool Kit, Amazon Web Services

+ Ran an Intensive English Program, managing a staff of ~20 teachers and administrators, a homestay program, a student hotel and TOEFL/IELTS testing programs.
+ Increased enrollment by 130% between 2010 and 2011.
+ Received 2011 Award for Largest Increase in EBITA out of all 54 ELS Language Centers

+ Ran an Intensive English Program aimed at College-bound Chinese.
+ Managed a Chinese sales force
+ Managed staff of expat English teachers and oversaw academic program
+ Oversaw print ad and social media campaigns (with DouBan, DianPing, RenRen)
+ Implemented pull marketing through English Corners, Hollywood Movie Nights, Board Game Nights
+ Conducted outreach to IB programs and private high schools
+ Provided representation for university partners at education fairs

Ran an Intensive English Program based on Oklahoma City University campus, managing a staff of ~20 teachers and administrators, a homestay program, a dormitory and TOEFL/IELTS testing programs.

MBA in Finance and International Business
Activities: Completed degree at Tianjin, China Satellite campus while undertaking Intensive Mandarin Program.

BA in Journalism with English Minor
Activities: Japan Student Association, Pakistan Student Association, Taiwan Student Association, Society of Professional Journalists

Personal Website

1st Place - Startup Weekend San Diego - May 2012 Best Execution - Startup Weekend Silicon Valley - February 2012 1st Place - Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists - best Feature Article in Division B newspaper - 2003

East Asian languages, web development, applied linguistics, history, games of strategy, running