Business Operations Manager
Served as a liaison between IT operations and Application Management Function in areas of Release Management and Change Control.• Created and served on two Change Control Boards to manage changes to over 100 Customer Care applications with approximately 9000 users on one of the world’s largest Oracle platforms supporting $6B of annual Services revenue• Reduced number of disruptions to service and incidents attributable to change — prevented incident related costs of more than $575K per quarter. Average change requests reviewed per quarter increased from 150 to more than 1000. • Influenced process and policy changes in Enterprise change control and release management. Drafted and secured adoption of updates to Enterprise’s Incident and Change Management policy and processes • Incorporated change management metrics into the Service Level Agreement between IT and technical management teams; for the first time SLAs included change metrics • Spearheaded software enhancements to Enterprise Change Management and Incident Modules of the Remedy Tool resulting in an ability to measure change related incidents and increased tool usability• ISO Champion - annually reviewed controlled documents to ensure they reflected current practices and procedures; created templates and checklists to ensure release management standardization and capture of best practices while seeking continual improvement