Michael Lyons Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Chief Executive Officer at Liberty Metrics Inc, a custom alternative data solutions provider.* A customer-centric, visionary with over 15 years of internet execution leadership. Pioneer of e-commerce internet intelligence, analytics and a unique passion for simplifying complex business challenges and turning them into results.* Strong results orientation and thrives on leading in fast-paced, high growth, rapidly evolving environments. Strategic thinker with a demonstrated track record of building and managing teams to deliver consistent profitable growth through innovation, operational efficiency, new business development and cost discipline. * A respected leader, people manager, coach and mentor who inspires employees and motivates teams to win. Architect of dynamic, successful and sustainable corporate cultures.* Adviser, Consultant, Mentor for digital consumers who are looking to harness the web data and analytics.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Toronto, On, Ca

• Agile coach & facilitator.• Lead and manage all phases of projects from initiation through closure using agile methods.• Assume overall profit and loss (P&L) responsibility for all projects including scoping, resource allocation, and time management.• Actively manage plans, budget, dependencies, scope, risks, issues, quality, and deliver projects in line with overall project commitments.• Directly managed team of software engineers.• Analyze, define, operationalize, monitor and improvement internal processes.• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with sales, development, business development and finance.• Monitor and track resource allocation to assure staff is optimally utilized and customers are satisfied with the delivery progress d. Identify and resolve issues, risks, and other considerations related to the delivery.• Overall responsibility for the development and maintenance, including new service offerings, staff skill-set and experience, and methodologies.

• Program Management of the application software development team in the US and Canada in Agile.• Control the code base, its structure and security.• Management of Software Versions and Releases• Agile (process) facilitator • Test coordination for key development gates• Manages the project pipeline • Contributes to and participates in design solutions• Prepares project estimates, timelines and deliverable s• Documentation of environments, configurations and installations

• Ownership of the Release and Resource Management• Release Communication• Release Quality• Resource Management• Kanban/Agile alignment

Financial Management• Monitors and manages project budgets (financial and resource)• Establish internal and external benchmarks, levels of service in industry (SLA's) and ensuring consistency in the business objectives/goals.• Meets with finance and PMO regularly to review project budgetsResource Planning• Conducts resource capacity planning on a quarterly basis to determine project delivery capability.• Manages all project resources and optimizes the utilization of those resources across all projects, departments and disciplines.• Manages on-going resource allocation to projectsOperational Management• Owns and Maintains the Corporate Roadmap (Master Project List)• Responsible for timely delivery of projects – manages multiple, inter-dependent projects• Directs project teams and advises project managers as required to deliver projects on time and on budget.• Acts as the escalation point for change management – assesses the financial and temporal impact to projects and presents to senior management.• Escalates risks and roadblocks• Good working knowledge of project information and project interdependencies in order make informed decisions • Works closely with PMO Manager to escalate project scope changes, suggest improvements to the process, manage resources effectively• Assess risk and determine the most feasible alternative• Provides weekly status reports for senior management

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Managed 1st and 2nd Tiers of Tech Support • Managed desktop and security rollouts • Managed incidents and change requests and logged and analyzed calls received • Solution provider for user community (web, application, process and technical)• Coordinated with 3rd Tier Support groups to restore service operation • Web administration • Provided management information, statistical reports and recommendations for service improvements• Remedy incident and change management administrator• Monitored outstanding incident and change management standards to ensure objectives were met

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Mcp, Computers

College Diploma, Law Enforcement