Mark Kinney Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, Nc, Us

VP and Manager Release and DevOps - Directing the release efforts for 100+ applications in Global Wholesale Banking (Credit and Treasury) for Bank of America. With an onshore/offshore presence we are 24/7 365 support team of Release Coordinators and Software Configuration Managers (SCM). Leading a strong DevOps team responsible for providing complete automation solutions in continuous integration, continuous deploy and automated test for the applications the team has release authority over.Migrated 88 application teams to a new technology portal to simplify the change request submission process, resulting in a 30% reduction in the time needed to submit and process a change request.Migrated 66 Application development teams to automated build and deploy (CI/CD utilizing our DevOps expertise. Project coordination was entirely in JIRA with Kanban and full dashboard visibility. Automation tools used for this migration (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, SonarQube, Datical). One of the first teams at the Bank to complete this migration on schedule in 2018.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Senior IT Release Manager Technology - Crew Solutions Technology Team (+100 members)• Overseeing IT Releases at the Enterprise level working under a given business domain area, single point of contact during all phases of a given release, varying from early scope definition through deployment to production.• Required to Fly Applications• Manage and stabilize technology team releases/time boxes using agile approach.• Collaborate with Product Owners, Delivery Teams, and Program/Governance Teams in the definition and breakdown of releases.• Coordinate Release efforts with Customers, QMO, Change Advisory Board (CAB) and DevOPs support teams. • Monitor and report on technology team confidence / risk and task variances to leadership.

Deerfield, Il, Us

• IT Release Manager (consultant) for Payment Systems Team• Release planning for complex enterprise wide IT projects including Retail Financial Services, gift card processing, credit settlement, and the migration of existing electronic payment (EPS) system to new hardware/software platform.• Successful coordination of software releases with IT partner teams to align with business goals• Developed and deployed a more visible software release process to improve the team’s communication of software deliveries and productivity.• Centralized build and release documentation on SharePoint • Transition team to JIRA for defect tracking and task management. • Release planning and coordination for a team of 35 developers • Resource coordinator for the team, aligning resources to specific projects and for maintenance and support activities• Member Change Advisory Board (CAB)

London, Gb

• Manage IT Software deployments for AonHewitt Navigators Healthcare Exchanges business unit.• Planning the successful roll-out of software to the production environment• Communicate and manage the expectations of the internal workstreams with publication of an advance release schedule• Ensure implementations are traceable, secure and that only correct, authorized and tested version are deployed to production• Merge planning and implementation within the software development team• Coordinate all work efforts in conjunction with Program management, Change Management and SQA.• Responsible for IT performance monitoring across the network to ensure accurate loading across the servers.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Successfully managed the software development and integration efforts for a team of 40 + developers covering multiple components at the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for new platform initiatives.• Successfully led product integration team for a new Motorola 3G HSPA WWAN datacard. Responsible for the overall schedule, resource plan, coordination of activities from multiple internal teams• Managed transition from Rational Clearcase to GIT CM tool as part of the migration to Android OS. Resulting in significant cost savings and aligning our software deliverables to Google standards• Managed migration of multiple software build lines to continuous integration resulting in significant reduction in build and release time resulting in immediate feedback on quality of content submitted

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for Software integration and test team that delivers software content for multiple hardware/software platforms. Software is integrated and delivered using standard methods and practices with emphasis on quailty and on time delivery.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Worked with the senior planning teams to promote the skills of the group, secure the work, estimate the staff effort during Product Life Cycle (PLC) and provide incremental delivery schedules.• Reviewed proposed work as part of the extended systems’ engineering team to highlight any system interactions and work to resolve conflicts.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Leader of successful software engineering team in development and launch of PC based tools focused on consumer ability to easily upgrade device software using Motorola’s web based software update tools.• Led multi-discipline team in development of lower cost version of Motorola TDMA StarTAC, focusing on software feature enhancements, cost reductions through evaluation and qualification of alternate parts and suppliers resulting in over $16 million in additional profit.

Bs, Computer Science, Mathematics

Associate In Science, Electrical Engineering

Certification, Dale Carnegie Leadership Training