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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Senior Release Manager responsible for administering end-to-end release processes, including planning, managing, scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring changes to financial services computing systems. Release Management support for application, operational, infrastructure and configuration deployments. Uphold IT compliance with change management processes and policies.Coordinate, plan and communicate with varying audiences.Hands on experience with ServiceNow, SNOW, TFS, Jira, Confluence, and New Relic

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Release Manager with direct reports responsible for over 30 releases a month deploying features, patches and hot-fixes. The releases include monolith, SOA and microservice architectures to deliver a Search Engine Marketing platform. Juggling the complexities of late merges, break/fix, partial deployments, patching & rollbacks. A working manager who contributes using Git, Jenkins, JIRA and Python tools daily. An effective communicator with excellent risk judgement works with multicultural Product, TPM, QE teams to build consensus and collaboration. Developer of creative methodologies to obtain solutions and work-arounds

Redmond, Washington, Us

Release Manager for Microsoft's weekly release of Skype for Android. Hands-on release engineering as well as release management using Microsoft's own Dev Ops environment employing GIT, Quick Build, HockeyApp , Nexus and VSO. Extensive, daily use of GIT. Expertise with branching and crash log analysis. Lead the go/no-go planning meeting with Microsoft's worldwide engineering management teams . Fully responsible for the successful release of Skype for Android to 15 million active users via Google Playstore each week and every week.

San Francisco, California, Us

IT Release Manager responsible for the successful deployment of releases, ongoing patch releases and maintenance updates to production systems that service our business operations at Salesforce.com. This position manages the integration of moving parts of complex releases to ensure seamless execution, on-time delivery of high quality releases, and transparency and visibility throughout the process. Identity Asset Management, SSO, Security, Oracle Financial, Executive Dashboard application releases.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Release Management for Ebay and PayPal separation into two-companies. Activities included cloning over 200 Internal Applications for Legal, HR, SAP, Shared Services and the SharePoint intranet. The cutover process required six months and included three mock cutovers. Extensive use of MS Project and SharePoint to build various tools to support the effort. Affected the entire IT infrastructure of eBay while continuing on-going to support the normal release activity.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Release management. Manage monthly SAP releases to production. Plan for unique aspects of each release, including emergency releases. Track, maintain and prioritize the planning queue, coordinate and gather sizing estimates and approvals. Proactively work with developers to drive closure of open change requests. Provide a QA function, make sure all the quality gates and checkpoints are performed and documented. Ability to engage and communicate with IT partners to help define scope and requirements. Ensure that all stakeholders are communicated to in a timely manner with appropriate level of detail

Oakland, California, Us

Release Manager for California Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau STAR application. WCIRB is a data analytics organization that collects policy and claims data to produce a variety of analytical products for the insurance industry. Managed bi-weekly release cycle with a team of 30 developers including an off-shore component. Managed Business prioritization process and backlog using Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Burbank, Ca, Us

Transition Management: Financial Outsourcing within the Record –to-Report, Invoice-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay towers for an end-to-end global finance transformation in the entertainment sector. Partnered with Capgemini Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing in EMEA, Americas and APAC. Expertise in scope definition and control, stakeholder management, quality assurance, risk and issue control and advanced knowledge transfer methodologies

Oakland, California, Us

Created the project management office (PMO) for California Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau STAR project. Teamed with Tata Consulting Services to drive and define requirements using Scrum and Lean methodologies to develop a client/server application to migrate several mainframe systems. Created integrated project planning process across 100 insurance companies using PMBOK methodology and SharePoint 2010.

London, Gb

Release Manager Mobile product campaigns, working with marketing and product development. Managed release of new customer capture process for mobile phone campaign. Analyzed risks and opportunities, prepared recommendations and worked extensively with internal and external stakeholders.

Global process owner (GPO) for HP Services Product & Pricing. Responsible for 60,000 services prices in 40 currencies. Managed new product and pricing introductions. Offshored the global process to Hewlett-Packard’s e-Business center in Chennai, India. Disciplined transition process resulted in quicker turn-around and higher quality process after offshoring. Well versed in Six Sigma, Business Process Operations (BPO). Lived in India for over 5 years.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Lead the merging of all Compaq product/pricing master data into HP systems. Responsible for overall project cost, schedule and assurance those prices would effectively move without change. Management environment was rapidly changing and ambiguous due to the Compaq/HP merger. Developed a successful change control process to be able to validate each of the 3 million Compaq prices moved and were orderable by all HP channel partners.

Vevey, Ch

Instructional design and training to support migration of 40 Nestlé USA plants to SAP/R3 for accounts receivable/payable. Commissioned to re-engineer the Nestle accounts receivable process and train the field. Designed comprehensive SAP training program. Traveled Oregon, Missouri, Ohio and Virginia extensively to deploy SAP.

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Program managed Latin American partners to bring them online with DIRECTV including customer billing system deployments in Trinidad & Tobago, Panama, Venezuela and Chile. Responsible for bringing the first-to-market direct broadcast television business launch in Latin America. Commissioned the first set-top box and “dish” in Latin America and sent the first invoice. Lived in Caracas for 3 years.

Germantown, Md, Us

Signal & Power Systems Engineering Section Head with (20) engineering direct reports. Section engineered commercial and classified satellite systems. I have an extensive knowledge of spacecraft and launch vehicle engineering, was the architect of Hughes Aircraft’s integrated scheduling system and held the master scheduler position. Additionally I have over 5 years of experience with other aerospace engineering companies such as Xerox, Northrop, Raytheon, Rockwell and TRW. Held Top Secret clearances.

Education record

General, Project Management Certification (1991)

Mechanical Engineering