Enterprise Release Deployment Lead Resume

SUMMARY

Accomplished IT Software Development Engineer with 22 yrs experience, specializing in SAP product ownership, SAP change & release management, SAP software security, automation & process improvement, and ABAP/SQL development

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Release Deployment Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Managing Technical IT releases/upgrades. Used various automation tools and techniques to design scripts that automate many functions of each release. For example, automating the stop/start of platforms, batch job triggering & monitoring, alerts & notification, and task handoffs between teams
Product Owner and Technical Lead for the XLR (XL Release) tool that manages each release. Includes managing software security for all users.

Software Development Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Technical Lead on SAP Software Security Team. Product owner, Project Manager, and lead systems analyst & tester for the Access Control Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC) tool
Managed SAP maintenance releases, environment refreshes, and hardware/software upgrades, including Solution Manager 7.1 and 7.2 upgrades
Managed 50 automation and efficiency initiatives in 2018 alone
Experience managing SAP R/3 and S/4 (HANA) projects
Software Development using ABAP & SQL Lite. Fully automated security checkouts after upgrades

Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Technical Lead on Release Management Team, managed releases, and constantly looked for ways to improve and automate tools and processes.
Technical Lead and product owner for SAP TDMS (test data migration services), SAP Solution Manager, and IntelliCorp LiveCompare (SAP reporting)
SAP Support Pack process and tool owner. Introduced tools and automation that made the Support Pack process completely transparent to all customers.
Wrote over 100 templates using HP Quicktest to fully automate data entry in SAP.
Provided testing, technical troubleshooting, detailed proposals, and training for various hardware and software upgrades

Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Wrote SAP ABAP programs to automate the financial close process, and updated many other programs and financial reports.
Monitored network performance and provided network performance statistical reports for both real - time and historical measurements.
Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new functional designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical objects

Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Provided SAP ABAP development support for financial programs and reports
Designed complex finance batch schedule to control month-end and year-end close processes.
Identified and solved technical issues with a variety of diagnostic tools.