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Seattle, WA, US

Greater Seattle Area

• Coordinated all release phases from project inception to production release across numerous teams. Tracked progress utilizing cross-team communication, collaboration and engagement. Senior manager on team that is also.
• Converted existing deployment systems to MSI deployment (Windows), incorporating CI/CD and new code versioning system via Team Foundation Server and GIT, Jenkins upgrades and improvements for Linux systems deployments.
• Developed and maintained master release plan and calendar for all teams and domains, utilizing as primary reference point to communicate progress, tracked and analyzed bottlenecks, schedule impacts and risk control.
• Oversaw process improvement, coordination, and fine tuning. Evolved existing strategies and approaches to a centralized model coordinated across geographies.
• Coordinated with IT management to improve software engineering processes associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software along cross platform projects.
• Performed security remediation and managed patching critical production systems at 100% success target for Qualys findings and upgrades.

Bellevue, Washington

• Oversaw all phases of release process. Collaborated cross-functionally to conceptualize, plan and implement Build and Release projects, including major upgrades and new systems. Managed team of 4 engineers completing.
• Led interstate data center consolidation, reducing operating expense and improving efficiency. Achieved project with budgetary savings of 25%.
• Spearheaded nationwide system upgrade to Windows Server 2012, improving site and system performance and resource utilization. Completed ahead of schedule and 10% under budget.
• Managed database system upgrades for new servers, including Oracle versions and failover nodes.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Developed strategy and executed plans for production website and support releases, including system configuration, maintenance and release tools. Managed team of 4 engineers.
• Drove improvements to release process resulting in 95% implementation success rate within first year in role, virtually eliminating need for rollbacks and keeping hot fixes within acceptable ranges.
• Strengthened page load/response times to 99.998% of target by focusing collaborative efforts between development, operations and network operations center teams.
• Orchestrated upgrade from Perforce Server to Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010, improving functionality and performance by 75% and eliminated branching overhead.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Managed team of 4. Oversaw build system improvements, scripting, automation, code management / versioning and systems configuration, including code merges, releases and QA. Ensured documentation and training.
• Facilitated development of web-based push button build system, allowing team 24/7 access.
• Ensured consistent, scalable solutions deployment across division by implementing release tools and processes team.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Coordinated with development personnel to achieve daily build schedules for SQL server software, diagnosed breaks and resolved issues.
• Improved performance and efficiency by implementing templates for build processes and scripts.
• Participated in transition to move builds from database driven to Windows Test Technologies, in conjunction with SQL Server Team.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science