Expert Release, Source Control and Quality control Strategist, with extensive experience in handling the Release Management and Software Configuration Management domains of large and distributed products spanning 20+ sub-projects and 500+ team size. Played key roles in SCM policy & ALM tool chain deployment, building DevOps pipelines & Audit, Process Compliance management & Operation Optimization.➢ Owned and executed all aspects of release management throughout my career, administered 2000+ customer releases.➢ Leader of the organizational level SCM Capability Maturity Assessment Group, responsible for defining the SCM & Devops process, maturity standards & conducting yearly assessments since 2014. (10~20 Projects/Year). ➢ In charge of the SCM CoE of the R&D center.➢ Successfully led the SCM domain during multiple customer audits & CMMi assessments.➢ Successfully handled multiple SCM & DevOps improvement projects to meet the security certifications and customer specific requirements.➢ Represented India R&D center at the Huawei Global SCM conference and presented papers in 2009, 2011 and 2016.➢ Extensive experience in successfully handling the roles of technical leader and manager for the Release and Software Configuration Management (SCM) Team. (~20 members).➢ Early in my career, as an individual contributor, I handled the Release & SCM domain for 4 product teams simultaneously. (20+ sub-projects, ~ 300 members)Areas of Expertise➢ Release Management- Release planning, schedule adherence, stakeholder management, release reviews, administering the E2E internal & external release process, and risk management.➢ Strategizing and implementing the Software Configuration Management (SCM) process & ALM tool chain.➢ Planning and managing source code delivery releases to meet Technology Escrow and Security certifications.➢ Release/Deliverable reviews & audit.➢ SCM &Devops Cyber Security audits.➢ Administration of Version control systems - GIT, SVN & Clearcase.➢ Continuous improvement in quality & operational efficiency. ➢ Led the migration/upgrade of VCS systems, DevOps platform & ALM Toolchain. ➢ Planning and managing the Devops pipeline infrastructure on the cloud.➢ Defining organizational level version planning, branching & Merging strategies.➢ Building Teams – Headcount planning, recruitment, training & mentoring, performance management, succession planning & knowledge sharing.➢ Delivered 200 + Trainings on various topics- SCM and Devops Processes, compliance management, Tools, systems, Audits, Maturity assessments, Version management