David Rivera Email & Phone Number

Issaquah, Washington, United States

Issaquah, Washington, United States

Remote

Lead the release and change management function for the DA Azure Cloud Development Program. This role will also act as the primary liaison between the DA Azure team and the Microsoft Azure support team. This will include providing direction and managing the accountability for our Premier Support agreement. The preferred candidate will have experience in Cloud Computing, Platform Development and leading activities within an Agile Scrum team. Must have strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to communicate to leadership, be proactive and willing to work collaboratively within and across multiple teams.• Develop and maintain the release management plan for a cloud hosting platform environment, with over 50+ discrete service offerings that will mature through a cloud native lifecycle of Private Preview, Public Preview, and General Availability.• Provide Coordination within the Scaled Agile Framework Agile Release Train (SAFe ART) between agile teams in coordination with the Release Train Engineer.• Support communications team through the creation and sustainment of a Release Note management process which will be incorporated into the service maturity process• Drive automation backlog within the Azure Common Environment Services ART to support Release Management dependencies and integration within ServiceNow operations platform• Act as primary liaison to the Microsoft Premier Support account team. This will include management of actions and communication with the dedicated Technical Account Management team and Dedicated Support Engineers. • Integrate release of Microsoft Azure managed services with the DA Azure product backlog

Tukwila

Tukwila

Renton/Bellevue Wa

Collaborate with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software and environments.Responsibilities also include building the IT Release Calendar in working closely with the IT Project Managers from different portfolios across IT and centralizing view of all releases. Leads the effort of defining the IT strategic direction for release management tools for IT to ensure the process requirements of release management are built in. The Release Manager/Engineer will assist in managing projects and inter-dependencies to ensure milestone adherence to ensure the integrity of the release can be measured.* Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews* Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes* Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required* Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities* Work with project teams, understand code branches and code merges; ensure appropriate understanding and quality assurance are applied on release code bases. Validate (by looking at the code) that content of code releases match the intention for the release.* Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.* Participate in CAB meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks* Researches new software development and configuration management methodologies and technologies and analyzes their application to current configuration management needs* Provides documentation and input into knowledge base articles for Service Desk and team associates.* Informs management about system problems that are considered out of the ordinary* Models the Savers core values and displays leadership qualities including collaboration, dedication, openness, creativity, fairness and assertiveness

Redmond\Issaquah

Enterprise & Consumer IT eco-system processes 2/3 of Microsoft’s Business Revenue amounting to $64B+. Achieving measured Business Continuity and proficiencies through Cloud Service Design.• Lead Design & Delivery of Application Insight ‘Telemetry’ on Microsoft Cloud Platform. • Architected & Launched Geo Resilient Disaster Recovery solution using "Azure Traffic Manager" on top of Microsoft Azure PaaS Solution with Cloud Web/Worker Roles and SQL Azure Database • Implemented Hybrid SQL High Availability Solution between ‘On Premise’ and Cloud Platform using SQL 'Always On'. KPIs• Auto Scale Up/Down of on line systems to reduce Cloud Compute cost by $750k - $1M a Year• Automated Cloning to increase nodes in Production Rotation enables business to handle business spikes, observed during holidays, Quarter closings and fiscal year ends. • Core Team Scrum Member: Participated in Global Service Line sprints.• Contributed in Self-Regulated Two week sprints with daily efficiency gain in excess of 20%. Measured thru a Sprint by Sprint Matrix. KPIs: Number of Business Programs Delivered, Lines of Code checked-in, Number of Drops/Patches and Team Velocity in terms of Agile Story points delivered• Designed and worked with Teams on ‘One Click' deployments. KPIs: 1) Cut down Deployment Time by 50% measured by total release time from 24 hours to 12 hours. 2) Increased System Up Time by 48 hours a year. 3) Delivery Business Incidents reduced from an average of 4 incidents down to 0 incident. Verified over 4 consecutive releases• Automated “Dev Check in to Production Deliver”/”DevOps” Pipeline through Microsoft VSTF Release Manager workflow:• Global Developer Deployment Lead: Drove efficiencies in the deployment process which included application dependencies & deployment timings in pre-production environments in order to land the changes in Production successfully- on-time and with zero post-deployment escalations.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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