Michael Leyden Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

• Leading the development, planning, and implementation of programming and partnerships for child and youth behavioral health for the Next Generation Digital Therapeutics team.
• Facilitating cross-departmental processes in partnership with SMEs across research, product development, engineering, and clinical practice.
• Driving the execution of multiple simultaneous projects with a focus on internal products and external partnerships.

New York, NY, US

• Led all strategic partnerships for a digital education, job training, and rehabilitation platform serving justice-impacted students in corrections—prisons, jails, and reentry facilities—across the United States.
• Directed full partnership life cycle: research, business development, contracting, implementation, ongoing success.
• Defined program strategy by seeking out and implementing best-in-class software to deliver education, job training, rehabilitation, and reentry planning.
• Relationship management of government agencies, corporate partners, nonprofit organizations, internal project teams, and external vendors.
• Coordinated diverse internal stakeholders across technology, product, operations, education, sales, and senior leadership teams to ensure partnership success.
• Evaluated and reported on content partner KPIs, with a focus on educational attainment, job-readiness, student and teacher engagement, security compliance, and quality of technical integration and customization.

New York, NY, US

• Managed planning, execution, and support for Sesame Street digital media and IT projects.
• Directed Digital Media Engineering projects through accountability on updates, goals, tasks and timelines.
• Coordinated technical support for Sesame Street websites, games, apps, and internal business systems.
• Developed and managed vendor relationships for IT and Digital Production teams.
• Oversaw video asset management systems and workflows for company initiatives.
• Developed and managed metadata taxonomy and schema sets for Sesame Street archival content.

New York, NY, US

Coordinated metadata governance, video asset management, and provided support for a variety of Production Management department projects.

New York, New York, US

• Supervised Broadcast Event Logging department and handled daily responsibilities in live tv production environment.
• Oversaw all digital asset management for live MLB game broadcasts, ensuring footage was logged efficiently for entry into the MLB Productions digital archive and to be used for MLB Network nightly programming.
• Interviewed, hired, trained, scheduled, supervised, and tracked hours for 50+ freelance employees logging upwards of 100 MLB games each week.
• Led training for custom software and proper protocols for digital asset management and broadcast logging
• Troubleshot video, audio, and other technical issues that occur during live game feeds.
• Professional development of logging staff, helping them improve work through hands-on training and quality control reports. Referred candidates for advancement within MLB Network and MLB Productions.

New York, New York, US

New York, New York, US

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communication (Journalism Focus)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

Education record