Stuart Bate Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Accountable for successful coordination and delivery of software and change initiatives across Digital Workspace from planning, through build, test and deployment.

Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Release Manager and member of Senior Management Team. Responsible for scheduling the development, build and testing of all software releases for a digital lending platform. • Formulating release strategies, planning release schedule and content – coordinating internal research and development and sales pipeline.• Measuring and monitoring progress to ensure releases are delivered on time and within budget.• Managing risks and resolving issues with release scope, schedule and quality.• Developing the Product Roadmap, ensuring new functionality and regulatory changes are delivered to timescale.• Communicating plans, commitments and changes to internal and external stakeholders. Managing clients and coordinating upgrade paths.• Designing and implementing Process Improvement Initiatives to improve project governance.• Researching and implementing new software development and configuration management methodologies and toolsets to ensure efficient.

Supporting development projects and service management organisations in client accounts across UK and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) within both the Public Service and Commercial Sectors.• Providing hands on CM expertise to various accounts including Public Sector (DWP & MoJ), Rolls-Royce, Leeds Building Society. Managed Releases – defining content and priorities and managing environments from Test to Production.• Defining the roadmap for CM within a transforming development business – ensuring CM was built into DevOps and Agile development in high profile multi-supplier projects including Universal Credit, DWP Central Payment System, Child Support Agency, Leeds Building Society and Deutsche Bank. • Building and releasing software packages on development projects.• Appointed to new projects to drive optimisation, and to existing projects to devise and drive return to green strategies.• Designing and implementing process for migration of 40+live, high profile DWP projects in support of large insourcing activity. Migrating projects between CM toolsets including process definition, implementation and data migration.• Active member of HPE Global CM Technical Council – developing and implementing CM processes for Application Development projects across the global organisation. • Established a CM Community of Practice across the EMEA region, bringing together CM practitioners for coaching, mentoring and knowledge sharing.• Responsible for Process Improvement through the Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) - delivering CMMI Level 3 attainment for a number of clients.• Defining and Managing CM governance across multiple projects – Approval and auditing of CM processes - Coaching Project Managers and Development Teams in CM processes

Stockport, United Kingdom

Delivering Configuration Management solutions to all surface ship and submarine programmes. Responsible for all aspects of Software Configuration and Build Management.• Implementing an integrated CM and Build process across distributed development teams in UK and France – including definition of branching strategies, multi-site support and differing build environments.• Building software packages within the development teams for release to testing and onwards into service.• Developing and delivering training courses for a variety of CM and Development tools including PVCS Dimensions, Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest.• Defining and implementing integrations between CM tools and various development tools (Doors, Rational Rose etc)

Preston, United Kingdom

Entering as a Technical Assistant and progressing to Configuration Management Implementation Manager, working on various aircraft platforms including Tornado GR4 and Eurofighter Typhoon.• Evaluating and selecting CM tools and specified bespoke enhancements suitable for electronic process mapping.• Leading a team of Software Engineers to introduce and implement CM Tools and Processes at Partner Company sites across UK, Spain, Italy and Germany.

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