SUMMARY:

• Seeking a Release Manager position. Able to institute industry standard Release Managementmethodologies for companies large and small. An advocate for collaboration between all stakeholders to ensure releases are on - time, within budget and error free.
• Ability to see the big picture, find root cause of problems and make necessary changes to existing processes thereby improving release quality. ITIL v.3 Foundations certified and Certified ScrumMaster

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Release Lead (Information Systems Division)

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Responsibilities:

• Lead for the Global Logistics Systems and Health and Wellness (Pharmacy) systems. Established release Governance, Scheduling, Delivery, Metrics and Resource needs.
• Performs Stage Gates reviews setting criteria for entry into each product phase. Ensures Collaboration between Product/Project Mgmt., Quality Assurance, and Development are in agreement for releases to move through the Software Development Life Cycle. Establishment and enforcement has resulted in improved quality and schedules adherence.
• Core member of Application Life Cycle Management team which establishes and promotes standards for the use of TeamForge project tool, Subversion source code control tool, AntHillPro build tool and HP Application Lifecycle Management Quality Assurance tool.
• Introduced Continuous Integration which has improved quality and eliminated scheduling impacts conflicts and allowing releases to meet customer deadlines.
• Holds periodic al presentations on industry standard Software Development Life Cycle and ITIL processes to Release peers, Project Management, Quality Assurance and Development groups. This has resulted in improved quality of releases, schedules and understanding by all product stakeholders across the division.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Ensured a complete release suite of IT Software as a Service (SaaS) products using scrum methodology in line with all stakeholders.
• Ensured all components were aligned with company’s business objectives.
• Ensured Bill of Materials and versions are correct and compatible.
• Coordinated QA testing efforts are comprehensive and integrations are complete.
• Created Project Plans for multiple projects ensuring up-to-date with delivery forecasts.

Sr. Release Manager/Engineer

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Established consistent compilation, packaging, distribution, status accounting and archive procedures for all embedded middleware products which enabled over 1900 customer deliveries a year. Instituted standardization of build names and versioning criteria.
• Achieved consistent deliveries by instituting standard makefile maintenance procedures and build environment automation. These factors ensured builds matched the Bill of Materials requirements and consistent deliveries were achieved for all software baselines.
• By aligning closely with Project Management, Quality Assurance, and Development, ensured contents and schedules were met consistently. Supported the use of a Software Configuration
• Control Board for company - wide knowledge, status and discussion of projects readiness.
• Created and distributed company-wide, an overall Software Configuration Process and Procedures document which described all functions and services performed by Release.
• Instituted a disaster plan for off-site software storage as well as immediate recovery capabilities. Delivered over 900 backup and recovery disks for 32 products.
• Environments included Solaris and Linux, Perforce, GNU tools, Make and many compilers.
• Instituted, documented and performed 28 Escrow deliveries over 10 years ensuring legal compliance for the company.
• Used Bugzilla problem tracking system, CVS and Perforce source control databases for applications and Hudson for continuous overnight builds of pre-release source testing.

Sr. Software Configuration Management Engineer

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, Documented and Implemented automated Software Configuration
• Management system in a Windows95 environment.
• Installed and administrated 3 Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 databases. Automated source downloads. Developed automated compilation and error logging for Microsoft Development Kit 6.0 Java code and Microsoft Software Development Kit for Visual C++.
• Received Manager s TOP 1% for major contributions and impact to the company.
• Reduced compilation time by 85% and eliminated 4 man days from turnover process.
• Reduced compilation turn around production time from 4 days to 2 hours.
• Created product CDs using Adaptec s Easy CD Pro software. Produced CDs for QA for install/load testing as well as Gold Master CDs for duplication and delivery. Increased productivity and reduced turn around testing time by 30%.

Sr. Software Configuration Management Engineer

Confidential, PaloAlto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Developed, Documented and Installed automated Windows95 builds.
• Developed automated software download, compilation and error logging for Java, C, and
• C++ project software.
• Instituted source and executable versioning and label identification for baseline software.
• Installed and Administrated Pure Atrias Clear DDTS Problem Tracking System.
• Installed and Administrated MicroSoft s Visual SourceSafe for 15 projects for 90 users.
• Installed and Administrated Mainsoft s Visual SourceSafe for UNIX software projects.

Sr. Software Release Engineer

Confidential, Freemont, CA

Responsibilities:

• Performed C++ and assembly Wafer Etch systems software compiles on Confidential OS platform.
• Used DevMan system for control and compilation of system configuration software.
• Used InterSolv s PVCS Software Configuration Management database for driver compiles.