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Twinsburg, Ohio, United States

Twinsburg, Ohio

- Responsible for all release planning, including risk assessment, process adherence, milestone management, prioritization, production readiness review, status reporting, change coordination and implementation.- Evaluated current process for efficiency and completeness; implemented standard process and procedure improvements for release management and rest of software development lifecycle. - Managed releases spanning from Agile-based full projects down to very short-cycle Production issue releases.- Converted highly-manual deployments to use standard automation CI/CD (DevOps) processes, tools and scripts across dozens of disparate products.- Supervised team spanning 3 separate job areas - tool administration, change management and operational implementation.

Englewood, Co

- Established CI/CD and DevOps processes improving delivered code quality. Established multi-environment build and test promotion model to handle complex architectural deployments.- Worked with project teams and across company (IT and production support) to manage and control code, configurations and environment buildouts.- Analyzed external deployment methods and developed processes to standardize internal quality deployments.- Created automated tools and runbook processes for development through production releases to reduce errors in deployment of database and compiled code.

Golden, Co

- Developed new and improved existing processes to increase productivity and reduce product delivery costs.- Developed tools to automate tasks in alignment with delivery processes, reducing time and errors in delivery.- Wrote and updated scripts to handle pulling code from repository, builds and deployment.- Created requirements, test cases and test tools for a multiple-module standardized automated InstallShield deployment tool suite – saving the company and customer's time, money and improving quality.- Regularly worked with distributed upstream/downstream teams and management to improve quality of build requests/deployments and related processes.

Greater Denver Area

- Deployed code and SQL scripts from Serena TeamTrack and PVCS to convert 180 million customer billing records from legacy mainframe system to modern architecture in 4-hour deployment window.- Used knowledge of repeatable build/release processes to coordinate work with a multi-disciplined team.- Performed software builds and deployment across environments, and wrote/updated shell scripts to automate process tasks. Administrator over code repositories, documentation, configuration files and security access.

Englewood, Co

- Built 8-person Test and 3-person CM team, managing project tasking, team objectives and goals.- Maintained schedule of deliveries and resources across 4 simultaneous, independent scrums.- Ensured knowledge sharing among groups with wiki and sprint/brown bag training across all deliverables.- Communicated across departments to manage task expectations between my team and other groups.- Mentored team on technical (e.g. regex, networking, database schema and SQL, O/S services), product-specific topics and methods to improve their test capabilities and provide externally shared test document results.- Trained Test and CM teams on how Agile concepts mapped to their jobs, empowering them to become equal team members in all aspects of the development process.

Englewood, Co

- Led project to map Agile processes to fit ISO 9001 standards – certification led to $4M possible sales annually.- Documented workflows and company processes – Sales/Requirements, Engineering development, Configuration Management, Testing, Customer Delivery and other processes.- Created an integrated company portal documenting the overall development process, linking to all process areas, templates, tools, and process hand offs (checklists).- Established metrics and performed audits to validate process adherence.

Englewood, Co

- Performed all Configuration Management and Product Delivery Engineering tasks on Windows and Linux.- Built and led a Configuration Management team – created a full suite of CM processes.- Owned customer release notes highlighting fixes and new functionality, user guides and training documentation.- Performed administrative duties for code repository and defect tracking systems.- Established a cross-functional SCB (Software Control Board) to evaluate delivery code changes.- Introduced Agile concepts like standup meetings and pair programming to existing processes.- Championed conversion from Waterfall to Agile processes and concepts.

Englewood, Co

- Tested system changes for adherence to requirements and looked for regression issues.- Improved bug tracking system to require capture of standardized core issue tracking information instead freeform user entry.

Greater Denver Area

- Managed several Qwest projects including a $2.3M municipality-mandated project using Extreme Programming (XP/Agile/Scrum) – on time and under budget over 2 delivery cycles.- Created a tool to map to XP/Agile methodology and improve team velocity and planning efforts.- Analyzed business needs and provided requirements for changes to multiple internal systems.- Established automated data update of legacy system using Jacada Integrator screen-scraping program and custom Java code – eliminating the open jobs backlog in a very short time period.

Englewood, Co

- Partnered with business Directors and VPs and development to create and develop IT solutions supporting business efforts while managing the bottom line impact.- Analyzed and defined appropriate system solutions, such as a business-critical ordering and sales platform, linking various cross-divisional/business unit platforms and functions.- Led group to improve and better define the stages of the software development life cycle.

Greater Denver Area

- Analyzed and specified system changes from an impact/implementation cost perspective.- Provided project status updates and funding requests to senior management for various projects.- Translated business concerns into measurable requirements to design a material management and asset record-keeping system resulting in significant savings to the company.