Sr. Manager - It Development
CurrentTransformation of growing IT Software Engineering team of over thirty solution & technical architects, developers, testers, product owners & scrum masters into high-velocity and predictable continuously delivering Agile teams.Primary objectives of the role – • Manage new development of features and maintain current operations for ordering on Oracle Metasolv and Telecom Network assets inventory and provisioning on Ciena Blue Planet for 50% of Frontier communications business of internet offerings• Team’s scope of work involves business features enabling top-line growth, enhance greater operational automation, stability and better performance in Production, enhance testing automation and address existing techdebts• Reduced GTM for features from 3-6 months to 3-4 weeks. • Organized applications team into Bi-weekly Agile continuous delivery process for the highly innovative and rapidly expanding Enterprise fiber internet offerings• Reorganized the intake refinement, sprint estimation / planning and tighter controls in dev execution, unit testing, peer code review, CI/CD pipeline with automation testing, QA tests (regression automation and manual) and UAT tests. These changes have increased velocity of our teams by 20-30% and the overall predictability of delivery in a Sprint by 45-60%.• Integrated our applications with Enterprise Fortify on Demand scanning to implement security guidelines compliance• Improve individual team member morale and overall collaboration within team• Streamlined platform upgrade process for Oracle Metasolv and Blue Planet Telecom Provisioning application into our continuous delivery process for faster, process oriented and regular upgrades• Working on further cost saving cloud migration strategy to reduce cost of ownership & leverage world class scalability, agility and security features