EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Over 30 years experience specializing in the implementation of Configuration, Change and Release Management processes, and the development of training materials to ensure project contractual compliance.
• I am well versed in all aspects of Configuration Management (identification, change control, configuration status accounting and auditing), as well as defect and migration management procedures that ensure precise deployments and deliveries of hardware and software code, applications for demonstration, and testing and training environments.
• Coordinate migration approvals with IT Leads and the Business/Environment Owners prior to migrations. Document all environment migrations, defects and configurations, to ensure proper versioning and migration flow from the development phase through project go - live. Additonally, worked in System Infrastructure role, coordinating cross functional resources to support migrations, e.g. Middleware, Database Administrators, Applications Engineers and Testing to ensure correct code deployments.
• Project Point of Contact providing notifications regarding environment outages and upon successful deployments, completions identifying environment availability.
• Chaired and coordinated internal team delivery and deployment reviews that included; Infrastructure Support, Quality Assurance, Research and Development, Senior Project Management, and Application Product Line Managers. Additionally, co-chaired customer Production Readiness Reviews to ensure contractual compliance, satisfaction of exit criteria, validation of hardware/software versions, and configurations to support deliveries and deployments.
• Configuration Manager, Team Lead and staff member reporting to Project Director’s on several hundred million dollar plus projects, with responsibilities including the development of support staff, budgeting, and the implementation and auditing of control processes to ensure contract compliance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Office Suite Programs
• Rally-Dev Agile Software Project Management
• Hewlett Packard Application Lifecycle Management Quality Center 11.2 Enterprise Edition
• SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for establishment of configuration and release management processes in support of multi-million dollar contracts.
• Establish internal timelines to ensure the timely delivery of documentation and software deliverables with Project and Product Line Managers in support of contract requirements.
• Point of contact for all configuration and release management requirements associated with The Tennessee Department of Health.
• Authored the approved Configuration Management Plan, Change Management Plan and the Release Management Plan deliverables for the Tennessee Department of Health.
• Implemented configuration management and release management policies (previously undefined) for the commercial side of DSS, Inc.
• DSS point of contact for internal and customer component/build deployments to Development, QA Integration and Test, as well as customer User Acceptance Test (UAT) and Production Environments.
• Review of Technical Release Notes for patch and build dependencies and specific installation order to ensure correct functionality to support application integrations
• Authored Change Requests (CRs) based on customer approved Requirements Analysis Document (RADs)
• Chairman of DSS Change and Release Boards for development of cost and schedule impacts associated with customer initiated Change Requests and scheduling deployment of builds into internal unit and integration testing, customer UAT and Production Environments.
• Coordinated and negotiated points of implementation with the customer for approved CRs into their UAT and Production Environments
• Co-chaired customer Production Readiness Reviews to ensure all contractual documentation was compliant and test results satisfy RTM functionality
• Well versed in Agile Software Development Methodology

Confidential

Configuration Analyst IV, Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for introducing and implementing CM processes in the Software System Integration Labs (SIL) in Orlando and Rome, Italy to ensure both labs functioned at the same configuration at all times. I set up the CCBs for both sites, developed agendas that could be supported by NATO and Rome, Italy. Oversaw the release of over 20 documents requiring baselining to support lab certification and eventually accreditation by NATO
• As a manager established processes and policies to ensure budgets and schedules were compliant to contractual requirements.
• I was the CMMI level IV coordinator for Missiles and Fire Control division. The Configuration and Data Management Organization was the only Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire control organization that received CMMI Level IV status.
• Responsible for establishment of configuration and data management processes in support of multi-million dollar contracts

Confidential

Analyst

Responsibilities:

• 15 years of change control/management experience, chairman of several change boards, e.g. engineering screening board (ESB), software engineering board (SWEB), configuration control board (CCB), change authorization board (CAB).
• 20 years experience coordinating all functional data deliveries, CDRLs and SDRLs in accordance with the contract and the integrated master schedule; delivered 100% on time and maintained data management database.
• 15 years of proposal preparations including CM Basis of Estimates (BOEs), and preparation of Configuration Management Plans (CMP).