Keith Michaelis Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, United States

Key work: Supporting LiveRamp’s key efforts to modernize their architecture▪ Project Coordination: Manage cross-functional teams and ensure seamless collaboration across engineering, product, and business teams to deliver projects on time.▪ Stakeholder Management: Act as a liaison between internal and external stakeholders, providing clear communication about project timelines, milestones, and deliverables.▪ Metrics and Reporting: Track and report on project performance using key metrics, providing insights and updates to leadership teams.▪ Risk Management: Identify potential project risks and issues, developing mitigation plans to keep projects on track.▪ Process Improvement: Optimize development processes to enhance efficiency, ensuring continuous improvement of project workflows.▪ Delivery Management: Oversee the end-to-end delivery of multiple projects, ensuring high-quality outputs that meet business objectives.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Directly responsible for representing and guiding the highest scope and the most complex video game titles to studio executives and film makers. Identification, planning, and implementation of new processes to scale and evolve brand relations team alignment between games business and studio creative content output. Uses deep brand knowledge to filter and route brand submissions and negotiate approvals, as necessary, while collaborating with production on creative solutions to address studio feedback. Instrumental in building and growing the studio partnerships with Walt Disney Animation Studios, Parks and Imagineers. Educates games team on Studio and TWDC IP, brand, corporate and DE&I guidelines to the games team.Key Accomplishments▪ Renewed relationships with executive management and film makers at Walt Disney Animation Studios▪ Pioneered the first-ever digital asset repository for Walt Disney Games, which houses over 20,000-film related assets and reference, significantly reducing asset request turn-around-time by 90%▪ 100% eliminated forgotten submissions with establishment of Jira for submissions and asset requests

Greater Los Angeles Area

Strategically managed the production of games, which involved working closely with developers and working cross-functionally. Interfaced with primary development team director during production cycles while maintaining clear and efficient communication channels with executive level management teams during development of multi-platform, multi-language, and multi-region SKUs. Mentored and managed junior production staff in basic practices to exceed goals.Notable Projects▪ Disney Cross Road (Mobile, 40+M installs WW)▪ Disney Guilty Party (Wii; 2010's “E3 Best Family Game”, first original Disney IP for console)▪ Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions (Mobile, 4.5 rank on iTunes, set quality bar per Lucas)▪ Kinect Disneyland Adventures (X360; Fastest selling Kinect title w/ 1.5-million LTD)

Greater Los Angeles Area

Skillfully managed the high-volume production of internal and licensed projects for Disney Interactive Studios.Key Accomplishments▪ Managed the games content and hardware set-up for our yearly Bob Iger review meetings▪ Presented three times at the Marty Sklar Creative Summits to discuss game creation to attendees

Greater Los Angeles Area

Applied strong leadership talents toward directing all projects while mentoring and managing a top-performing team of Quality Assurance Project Leads and testers. Continually liaised among Quality Assurance and Production management to discuss status of projects. Supported Quality Assurance Project Lead and tester headcounts for future quarters with Quality Assurance Director. Rapidly identified equipment and office needs.Key Accomplishments▪ Created detailed Quality Assurance tester manual and training programs.▪ Grew new publishing QA test team from 12 to 300+ highly skilled testers.▪ Continually upheld a 90% submission average with First Party Submissions.▪ Co-created the first Disney Interactive Game Evaluation Team and Review Process.▪ Acquired enhanced chairs for testers and desk-specific name tags – all standard practices today.

Greater Los Angeles Area

THQ's first ever Microsoft Xbox First Party Supervisor tasked with establishing new credibility with Microsoft after only three submissions. Served as the “go-to” contact with Microsoft to seamlessly align submission dates and requesting waivers on TCR issues. Co-developed THQ’s week-long tester training. Key Accomplishments ▪ Achieved Microsoft’s first-ever 100% clean submission report on Finding Nemo Xbox submission.▪ Obtained industry’s best pass / fail ratio in 2003 with Microsoft Xbox submissions and enhanced in 2004 (92% pass rate) to significantly improve first-time submission rates to ensure release dates.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Led targeted testing of key products with management of test teams ranging from 2 to 12 details-centric testers.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Led targeted testing of key products with management of test teams ranging from 2 to 12 details-centric testers.

Bacherlors Of Arts, Communication, General

Activities and Societies: Coached women's intramural soccer team 1995-1997

Minor, Creative Writing

High School Diploma