EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Over 30 years experience specializing in the implementation of Configuration, Change and Release Management processes, and the development of 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 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 Environment Coordinator and Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the development and implementation of Defect Management and Environment Control processes to define and control.
• Authored Project Environment Management Strategy Document approved by KCP&L management, outlining the cross-functional workflow requirements associated with code deployments, defect management and how they would be documented by environment.
• Worked with the Hewlett Package Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM) and the SharePoint Development Teams, establishing the requirements for Defect Management and Migration Request process flows and site developments.
• Authored materials, organized and conducted sessions for both the Defect Management and Migration Request processes for project users (Developers, Infrastructure Support Team and the IT Leads). These processes were implemented in support of 15 environment builds to define environment software version baselines for components, applications and databases.
• Additional responsibilities include System Infrastructure role identifying and notifying the project team of environment outages, coordinating and scheduling of the Middleware and Database Administrators, Developers, Testers and System Administrator to support migration requests from Development, Demonstration,, Gold, Test and enviornments.

Confidential

Manager and Team Leader of Configuration and Release Management

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 Confidential .
• Authored the approved Configuration Management Plan, Change Management Plan and the Release Management Plan deliverables for the Confidential .
• Implemented configuration management and release management policies (previously undefined) for the commercial side of Confidential
• Confidential 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 Confidential 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 and Data Management Manager and Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw the release of over 20 documents requiring baselining to support lab and eventually accreditation by Confidential
• 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 Confidential 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
• Proficient with Agile and Razor Configuration Management Tools
• Promoted five times during Confidential career.

Configuration Analyst

Confidential

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).

Configuration Management Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configuration status accounting for hardware and software, maintained configuration baselines by coordinating with Quality Assurance, Engineering and Manufacturing to close all open ECOs/ECRs and delivered 100% of systems without an open item.
• Prepared and internally coordinated over 100 Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) and negotiated approvals with MICOM, Confidential and Canadian customers to support specification changes, implementations and retrofit schedules.
• Co-chaired over 20 Function Configuration Audits (FCA) and Physical Configuration Audits (PCA) required to establish Functional and Product Baselines with the Government (MICOM) both at system and supplier subsystem levels, worked with Government and subcontractor counterparts to close open issues required to validate hardware and software.