New Staff in FCC Bureaus

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced key senior agency staff in the Media Bureau (MB) and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB). These positions are MB Deputy Michelle Carey and WTB Deputy and Senior Advisor on New Technology Michael McKenzie.

Deputy Chief, Media Bureau, Michelle Carey: Ms. Carey will assist in shaping the Bureau's policies designed to facilitate competition in the multichannel video programming marketplace. Prior to this appointment, she was a Senior Advisor to Assistant Secretary Lawrence E. Strickling at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in the Department of Commerce. At NTIA, she assisted in the implementation of a key Recovery Act program, the $4.4 billion Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. Ms. Carey has also worked at the Commission in a number of capacities during the past sixteen years, including Senior Legal Advisor to Chairman Martin, Deputy Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau, and Chief of the Competition Policy Division of the Wireline Competition Bureau. Before joining the Commission, she clerked for the Honorable Hart T. Mankin of the U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals. Ms. Carey received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University and received her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Deputy Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Senior Advisor on New Technology, Michael McKenzie: Mr. McKenzie will oversee the Mobility and the Spectrum Management Resources & Technologies (SMaRT) divisions within WTB and help provide overall strategic direction for the Bureau's activities, including the Bureau's role in advancing the goals and recommendations of the National Broadband Plan. Mr. McKenzie will also focus on the FCC's consideration of the implications of emerging technologies and contribute to the Commission's work on America's innovation agenda. Prior to joining the FCC, Mr. McKenzie worked in senior-level legal, business development, and strategy positions. Most recently, Mr. McKenzie served as a General Manager at Microsoft, where he supported the company's worldwide enterprise cloud computing services. Prior to that, he served as Senior Director of Business Development & Strategy in the company's platforms division. Mr. McKenzie also practiced technology transactions law at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati and spent four years in the communications and electronic commerce practice group at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale), where he focused on wireless, international, and transactional matters. He started his career as a law clerk to Judge Theodore McKee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Raymond Finch of the U.S. District Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mr. McKenzie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.