Michael J King
Principal and Founder
Michael is a highly adaptive software management professional with 15+ years experience leading multi-billion dollar initiatives delivered by globally-distributed software engineering organizations. A certified Scrum Master, Michael has successfully lead complex, technical programs requiring innovative governance and extensive coordination between technical and non-technical teams. Michael is regularly recognized by company leadership for delivery-focused approach and exceptional stakeholder management.
Testimonials
Venu Venugopal
Chief Technology Officer, Udemy
Michael’s attention to detail, organizational skills and bias to action enabled us to consolidate multiple brands and technologies to build a successful global platform. Michael is a great communicator and he takes the initiative to keep the exec team and his team leaders always informed about progress and challenges. He is very customer centric and he always looks at solving problems from a customer perspective. I had the opportunity to partner with Michael coordinating the activities of a global software development team and I would love to work with him again.
Tina Weyand
Senior Director of Product, Google
Michael is one of those rare individuals who understands technical details, complex systems and dependencies, and people. His understanding and management of key stakeholders, as well as the technical and product teams, is some of the best I have experienced. Whatever project Michael is parachuted into becomes instantly clear and calm. I have high confidence when Michael is the program leader and rely on him to surface issues and options that ensure we make quick progress towards the best outcome.
Robert Lindsay
General Counsel, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
Michael is exceptional. Throughout his leadership on multiple, full-program lifecycles, I repeatedly benefited from Michael’s rare ability to simultaneously master both the “big picture” and the minute details. More than that, he is able to make thoughtful trade-offs at both of these strategic and tactical levels by deeply understanding the ways that they interrelate as few others can. His unique ability to grasp multiple aspects of a program is not limited just to this. He is also gifted in handling both personal and technical issues in a way that allows him to identify challenges that others might miss until too late and apply his considerable soft skills or technical skills as appropriate. Michael is not just incredibly effective in one domain – he is incredibly effective, and versatile, across many.
Woody Wood
Director of Software Engineering, Expedia
Michael is a top-notch technical program and product manager. He’s curious, humble, supportive, inquisitive and as smart as they come. He is fearless in tackling large complex problems and is tireless in seeing work through to done. He saved the project we worked on by holding people and teams accountable for work. He understands technical issues as well as cultural and human factors. I can’t recommend him highly enough – he’s gold!