Independent Information Technology Consultancy specializing in all areas of Cutover and Release Management.

As Technical Cutover Lead, was responsible for all aspects of SAP Technical Cutover project management: • managed dozens of major releases tracking 1000s of deployment tasks, working with 100s of implementation resources, globally• served as liaison for infrastructure, functional and leadership teams and stakeholders• owned cutover release process with numerous teams internal and external to client

As Senior Technical Cutover Lead / Project Manager, was responsible for all aspects of quarterly SAP Domestic release management, planning and post go live support tracking. Also managed distribution center automation project. • managed Microsoft Project plan, tracking 100s of deployment tasks, resources and task dependencies• coordinated the release process, collaborating with numerous technical and business teams both internal and external to client, both on and offshore• $2 mil budget for Roverpick DPM/ODI project with nearly two dozen resources, part of $100+ mil program• $5 mil budget for HWC P2 project successfully implemented 10/13, minimal support issues after go live

As Release Manager, responsible for all InView Self Service software releases: • created release management planning and deployment process• merged internal release process with vendor’s hosted change management process • adapted processes to conform to SSAE 16 (SOC 1) compliance process

As Release Manager, was responsible for all aspects of the Salesforce software releases. Utilizing sprint methodology and customizing the process for frequent deployments of system functionality. Also coordinated the effort to upgrade client’s Microsoft Team Foundation Server to latest version.• managed all of the $5 mil program’s releases of functionality • coordinated deployments to multiple pre-production environments• evangelized the need for change management process

As Release Manager, responsible for operational and business deployments of software and hardware to production and pre-production environments. Also responsible for administration of Microsoft Team Foundation Server.• managed all operational deployment events (18) for the fiscal year• reduced from over 200 to a handful, the number of unresolved Change Management request tickets• coordinated 5 company-wide deployments with both on/offshore resources, spanning multiple days and included weekly scrum meetings

As Configuration Manager, oversight of daily operations for all Microsoft Team Foundation Server environments. • led effort to implement a backup policy for 6GB of 3rd party, vendor-hosted source code • coordinated the roll out of client software to vendor staff and managed the migration of hundreds of application source code moves from vendor to in-house on source code repository• created and managed two VMware environments, reorganized and implemented security policies for all including SharePoint and SQL Server

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