Michael Sheridan
35 | Advertising Architect, Fluency, Inc.
Residence: Burlington
Career highlight(s) you are most proud of:
My recent promotion to advertising architect at Fluency.
Your community involvement:
Volunteering as a youth mentor for the Chill Foundation. I also work with a youth from the Burlington area as a community support volunteer.
Inspiration for living and working in Vermont:
How beautiful the state is and the opportunities the Burlington job market offered for digital marketing.
Favorite part of your job:
Making the lives of digital adverting professionals easier and less stressful with Fluency RPA technology.
Most inspiring mentor:
Eric Brown, my first manager from a snowboard shop I worked at in high school. He inspired me to go to college in Vermont and pursue a marketing degree.
Best career advice you have received:
Never stop learning.
Something fun about yourself that few people know:
I don’t like sweets or candy very much.
Three words that best describe you:
Organized, pragmatic and congenial.
Favorite Vermont escape:
Smugglers’ Notch Resort or heading out to the bench at Stowe.
Favorite Vermont season:
Winter.
Favorite downtime activities:
Skateboarding in the summer and snowboarding in the winter.
Favorite social media:
Reddit, so I can follow local subs to find out what’s happening around Vermont and Burlington.
Person you would most like to share a Vermont beverage with:
My father, since he recently discovered that he likes Switchback!
Cause(s) you would support if you had unlimited funds:
Anything youth-development related and any efforts to curb climate change.
A song on your playlist you are embarrassed to admit to your best friend:
I bought a John Denver album as a joke and then realized I like John Denver after listening to it.
Where you see yourself professionally in the next five to 10 years:
I’d like to grow with Fluency in my advertising architect role and see where the future takes us.
Goal(s) you’d like to accomplish in the next five to 10 years:
Learning new programming languages like JavaScript or Python.
How your community service has changed since the pandemic:
Not much, other than taking standard safety precautions like social distancing and wearing masks during volunteer events.
How your job has changed since the pandemic:
I have been working fully remote since 2017. Ironically, when I joined Fluency in October 2021 the only change was I have an office I can work out of in Burlington.