Michael Kanaly Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Built, led, and mentored/coached a team of project managers in Irvine and Santa Monica, CA. Rolled out Agile Methodologies to a formally Waterfall environment; stood up 8 Agile Teams in the Irvine office. • Responsible for strategic planning, status reporting, and tactical execution of the McGraw Hill Education ALEKS platform. • Provided oversight and guidance to 8 in-house development teams consisting of program, product, engineering, content, quality assurance, automation, and business analyst resources. Communicated across project teams, stakeholders, and executives to prioritize resources and manage the portfolio of projects. • Helped team establish milestones and monitor adherence to PMO artifacts such as charters and schedules, identify program problems and risks, mitigate and escalate as necessary.• Drove annual and cycle-based planning activities and initiatives. Partnered with engineering and product leadership to ensure appropriate delivery towards product vision, approved strategic roadmaps and engineering standards to drive innovative products and eliminate technical debt across platforms while monitoring team capacity.• Worked closely and communicated effectively with executives to align on prioritization and coordinate work and resourcing across all teams (both business resources and consultants). Managed PMO department budget and T&E.• Assisted in creation and rollout of program management best practices, governance processes, compliance policies, and project management training.• Assisted in rolling out Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tools and best practices across the PMO including: Innotas for PPM and portfolio management, JIRA for scrum team backlog and story management, and Confluence for cross-collaborative documentation sharing. • Measured quality of delivery through dashboards, Key Performance Indicators (KPI)/metrics, and standard Service Level Agreements (SLA) which were monitored & reported upon in Monthly Platform meetings.

New York, Ny, Us

Beverly Hills, California, Us

• Managed ~20 developers and 7 QA personnel including scoping of projects and schedules per Senior Management.• Successfully converted teams from Waterfall methodologies, utilizing Agile methodologies including daily stand-ups, story points, demo, sprint retrospectives, and lessons learned sessions to streamline 10 projects in my portfolio.• Managed countless deployments to production for Live Nation / Ticketmaster Resale initiatives as well as all documentation required for change control board review, security board review, and the architecture board review.• Created an updated template for Release Readiness, Project, as well as Integrator Signoff which was approved by the PMO and was adopted as part of best practices and required per the SDLC for all members of the PMO.• Coordinated efforts across software development, infrastructure, operations scrum teams (8-10 people each), and across teams with product development and product management groups to ensure delivery of program/product.• Organized and led ALL release planning activities resulting in the creation of release roadmaps. Ensured all teams aligned with external corporate planning expectations and ran multiple Scrum of Scrums. • Responsible for project documentation including project charter, project plan, WBS, communication plan, risk plan, change control plan.• Managed stakeholder communication regarding Release Readiness Plans and Release deliveries. Ensured regular, active communication with adjacent programs and external stakeholders, including international offices.• Managed risk identification, monitoring and mitigation.• Managed scope definition and management through a change control process.• Collaborated with PMO to roll-out new Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tools - Clarity, Confluence and Jira.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

• Managed 12 developers and 5 QA personnel including scoping of projects and schedules; set milestones and hard deadlines. Created functional specs from information given by Senior Management stakeholders; managed overall development process and timeline for all web properties within Stamps.com. Included work with international staff.• Managed ~500 website deployments: ATG store deployments, PhotoStamps integration (with HP, American Idol, Best Buy, Avery, Apple, Apple iPhone iOS Mobile Application, Warner Brothers), and countless USPS requests. In addition, managed seasonal deployments of the store and PhotoStamps website such as the Santa Stamps rollout - landing page, creatives, emails, etc. Each integration required special promotions, discounts, email blasts, etc.• Worked closely with Customer Support to identify, review and escalate issues from customer feedback.• Closely monitored industry trends and suggested upcoming technologies to senior management.

New York, Us

Formed my own consulting company to offer the following core services: Program and Project Management, Business Analysis, Information Architecture, Web Design & Development, GUI Design, Visual Design, and Online Marketing. • Provided all facets of design: software GUIs, trade show booths, corporate newsletters, logos, brochures, websites• Partial client list: BitCentral, Sony, CBS, NBC, PBS, Ford, Mazda, Mercedes, Audi, Porsche, BMW, Monster.com.WorkLife Solutions Inc., Art Director 2001 – 2003• Created co-brands for the ENTIRE WorkLife vertical network of sites (approx. 2000+ sites), including the initial planning, mockups, design, and HTML slicing / PHP coding of each site.• Ran the company adserver, monitored click-throughs, performance, and optimized various campaigns.• Created corporate identity, logo, letterheads, business cards, etc. • Originated print ads for various magazines – most notable for the internationally-distributed Entrepreneur magazine.eFront Media, MultiMedia Web Designer / Developer II 2000 – 2001• Designed various company graphics for eFront’s Properties.• Redesigned and implemented 15+ websites on eFront’s network. Strived to give each its own identity within the greater eFront network while satisfying outside webmasters, customers, and internal marketing.• Created ads and promotional campaigns while monitoring click-through rates and page views.

• Managed program managers, project managers, design managers, sales traffic, QA, web development, and translation departments, including offices in Ukraine, Argentina, and India.• Gathered and assessed requirements from upper management and coordinated internal department team efforts.• Teamed with QA on test planning for overall product quality. Reviewed and assessed requests for enhancements, bug fixes, and content updates. Created MS Project charts to track progress of teams and set team deliverables/deadlines.• Supported Sales in marketing the products; managed deployment of hundreds of e-commerce websites.