Michael J Murray Email & Phone Number

Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

Poughkeepsie, Ny

After 20+ years in the IT Industry, I've decided to go back to my grad school roots and teach math. On Sabbatical for the Fall 2024 semester. I hope to be back in time for the Spring 2025 semester.

Poughkeepsie, Ny

Created a small startup business to help local businesses in my area market themselves using my experience in mobile and web technology which became profitable within it's first 2 months. Worked with 7 clients to market their small businesses.In August of 2017, I Incorporated PUX.life and started an IT Consulting arm of PUX.life. Our first client of the Consulting Arm is SGA (Software Guidance and Assistance) of Tarrytown, NY. While the heart of PUX.life is to help small business like Massage by Mei market themselves, the consulting arm helps pay the bills.

New York, Ny

• Oversaw application development for the content distribution department of Viacom's many media properties. This included an internal application to control the enabling and disabling of satellite feeds to content distribution partners depending on the financial status of their accounts. This also included viacomaffiliate.com, which allows content distribution partners to shop for promo short form VOD (Video on Demand) pieces that showcase Viacom's upcoming content.• Managed the SDLC for an Image Management system for all of Viacom’s Distributed Artwork to their digital partners. This included writing business and technical requirements, project planning, and tracking of the development and testing of the system.• Led a team of 5 members to investigate a data discrepancy issue with a Sponsorship Portal application that had existed in the system for months. With my guidance, the team was able to identify the root cause of the problem and have the data corrected immediately. • Streamlined process by manipulating HP Quality Center to act as an Agile Board for Development, QA teams, and clients to share knowledge and more easily understand what work was assigned to them, and in what priority.

Stamford, Ct

Worked on a contract as a Technical Project Manager, delivering on numerous projects to support NBC Sports Group’s Digital properties and became a Subject Matter Expert for Video.• Managed improvement projects to the Short Form VOD Workflow for all of NBC Sports Group’s Digital Properties including NBCSports.com, NBCOlympics.com, NBCDeportes.com, AlliSports.com, GolfChannel.com, and 6 Comcast SportsNet Affiliates across the country.• Worked on the launch of the redesigned NBCSports.com site, which went live over Labor Day Weekend of 2015, providing Subject Matter Expertise and management of third party vendors to insure the video experience of the new site was best in class.• Also delivered a project to integrate Freewheel Ad Manager with CSNBayArea.com, and laid the groundwork for all the Comcast SportsNet sites to integrate as well.• Worked with thePlatform, out of Seattle, WA to implement new versions of a customized video player for all of NBC Sports Groups Digital Properties Short Form VOD needs.• Oversaw a project to create an embeddable live video player with various geoblocking and authentication requirements for online partners of AlliSports.com to live stream Pro Motocross and Dew Tour events.• With very little turnaround time, delivered a project to allow video assets from SnappyTV to be properly re-transcoded and labelled, so they could be used on AppleTV’s service in time for NBC’s launch of NASCAR on 4th of July Weekend of 2015.• As Project Manager, laid the groundwork for our vendor, Deltatre in Turin, Italy, to provide real time results for the Rio 2016 Olympics, as they were presented on NBCOlympics.com.

Stamford, Ct

• Collaborated with Cross Functional teams to work towards the release of various versions of Kodak's Design2Launch Software. This included Project Management of the Development, QA, Marketing, Maintenance and Support, and Delivery Teams to best bring these updated versions to our current client base as well as preparing the Sales team to sell the latest versions to new clients.• Installing and Configuring Kodak's Design2Launch Software and acting as the Project Manager between the client and the technical team.• Produced materials for and delivered training on new versions of Kodak's Design2Launch Brand Manager to clients as well as internal Technical Consultants and Sales personnel.• Kodak Profitability and Accountability Leadership Award awarded in August 2011 for work on client focused projects.

Somers, Ny

• Managed a number of Business Intelligence Reporting projects using Hyperion Intelligence Explorer and Cognos Connection.• Earned Project Management Institute Certification as a Project Management Professional in 2007.• Managed a project to create a market alignment website tool.• Managed a project to enhance an opportunity management data warehouse.• Led diverse teams of IT Specialists, Architects, and Global Resources to produce quality deliverables on time and within budget.• Interfaced with all levels of management and clients to implement Agile Methodologies in order to improve accuracy and speed of project execution.• Consistently relied on my technical experience to understand the needs of assigned development teams and motivate them to perform at a higher level.

Somers, Ny

• Technical Team Lead on an opportunity management data warehousing project – also chosen to train Global Resources from China face to face in New York, to maintain this application.• Technical Team Lead on a business intelligence website project.• Earned a promotion to Senior IT Specialist in 2003.• Instrumental in design, development, and testing of an interactive educational science website and kiosk with international applications, including language translations.• Designed, developed, and tested a servlet based automated results system for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games used to produce content for the Official Website.• Presented with an IBM Excellence Award for Gold Medal Contribution for the Sydney 2000 Olympics.• Traveled to Spain and Australia for testing and lived in Australia for 2 months leading up to and during the games in order to provide maintenance and real time support for the application.• Earned a promotion to Advisory IT Specialist in 1999.• Acted as Webmaster for a corporate logistics internal website.

Syracuse, Ny

• Worked as a TA in the Mathematics Department while obtaining my Master's Degree.•Interned for the Syracuse Crunch American Hockey League Team downtown for the 1996-'97 season.

Masters, Numerical Analysis - Mathematics

Interned with the Syracuse Crunch Minor League Hockey Team for the '96-'97 season.

Bachelors, Computer Science / Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Ice Hockey Club, Chess Club (President), Math Club, Sigma Zeta, Alpha Chi