Release Manager

• Release Planning and Management consultant with proven ability to successfully plan, adopt, implement new technology, evolve business processes and manage tight integration of systems with high ROI and revenue growth.
• Adept in planning, establishing and customizing the release management framework, processes, governance and facilitate their adoption for successful, robust, reliable and faster releases.
• Breadth and depth of experience, knowledge mixed with vision and open communication skills to deliver the projects in time, within budget and expected quality.
• Expertise to smoothly drive migrations and consolidation projects to completion with reliability and consistency resulting in cost reduction, better performance and enhanced capabilities of the enterprises.
• Thrive on change, lived and worked in four continents enjoying my achievements in business process re engineering through IT in several sectors that includes Consultancy, Government, Natural Resource Management, Travel, Financial, Telecommunication, Outsource Services, Education and Dot Com.

Professional Skills

• Release Management Release Engineering Change Management Project Management
• Production Monitoring Operating Systems Applications Relational Databases
• Automation Integration Consolidation Migration
• Technology Infusion Technology Refresh Business Process Re Engineering
• Agile Waterfall Java SVN Jenkins Maven Build Forge SOA Apache Tomcat JBoss Oracle Linux Sun Solaris SGI
• Puppet Perl Script Tree View Keynote Open NMS
• Bugzilla Jira VersionOne ECPM ServiceNow Remedy REO Sharepoint twiki MS Office

Professional Experience

I have several years of IT experience planning and managing variety of releases with varying release cycles and well developed analytical, interpersonal, communication and leadership skills. Over the years I have developed strong organizational and release management skills with a focus on planning, setting priorities, mitigating risks and delivering quality assured products under tight deadlines.

I have experience of successfully reducing release cycles from 6 weeks to 3 days Faster Releases Faster ROI

• Developed, formalized and implemented several release processes for mature release management
• Carrying out meetings for tracking, reviewing and reporting the progress of releases
• Managing Release Calendar: All stakeholders are aware of release dates well in advance
• Establishing release management standards and control for the release governance processes
• Communicate and reinforce Release Management processes as ongoing basis
• Release Readiness Review for gathering and discussing release dependencies risks issues
• Managing risks for last minute Business Critical Change Requests to include in the releases
• Constantly reviewing processes to improve visibility of release milestones and processes
• Getting automation and integration processes in place for continuous delivery of releases.
• Fully conversant with Change Management processes Service Now, Remedy and ITIL practices
• Carried out release management for Agile and Waterfall environments
• Very comfortable in interfacing with multiple stakeholders and effectively working with cross functional and cross organizational teams dispersed geographically onshore offshore, Argentina, India and Poland
• Good understanding of technology SOA, OS Linux and Sun Solaris, RDBMS Oracle

Senior Build Release Manager

• Release Planning Coordination for multiple applications releases:
• Planning releases, monitor code activity, tracking defects, interface changes and service dependencies.
• Regular communication meetings for updating and working with stake holders to provide quality service.
• Pre production meetings, creating release delivery schedules and following standards with consistency.
• Engaging IT horizontal teams to ensure successful release and QA teams to integrate quality controls.
• Providing client notifications for the release content and status

Release Manager

• Proposed and motivated TripCase Teams US Poland to adopt several release management processes.
• Carried out several discussions with various stake holders to set up a framework for production releases
• Initiated from scratch setting up new release processes to manage the production releases
• Formalized the Release Process for Trip Case: Achieved 100 success rate for releasing monthly releases on time
• Laid the foundation for continuous delivery of releases

Systems Planning Management Lead Releases

• Completely owned and leveraged my technical knowledge teams engagement to resolve release issues
• Meticulously followed each release with due diligence to ensure 100 incident free releases
• Improved release processes to achieve 65 reduction in man hours and strategic organizational goals
• Mentored India team members, reducing the overall expenses and increased capacity
• Build tools to manage release workflow there by achieving daily releases instead of once in month
• Used puppet for configuring CERT,STAGE and Production releases.
• Led Systems Engineering activities to build fully functional team in Sydney Data Centre, Australia 2009
• Architected, designed, implemented and productionized a highly available, robust, reliable, scalable and tightly integrated world class monitoring system which resulted in improving visibility of production systems by 500 and reporting 100 outages Averting several outages YOY reduction in outages 50
• Initiated several new processes to support, sustain the growth, propagation and replication to other BU:
• Collaboration, Education Adoption of best monitoring practices by enterprise achieved 100 coverage
• Cradle To Grave process and productivity tools savings 100 YOY increased reliability and consistency
• Tight integration with release processes, monitoring is planned, prioritized and executed in each release

Confidential

• Delivered, as part of Technology Refresh Project, Solaris upgrades to maintain highly secure financial environment.
• Built and configured two sets of new high end Sun Fires connected to EMC SANS with DR site and collaborated with several teams to migrate mission critical two financial applications Compass Oracle and GME Sybase .
• Additional capacity to handle growing customer base better response and reliability Revenue growth

Confidential

• Designed, configured and built virtual university environment on two new Sun Fires, SAN, backup systems and DR site and collaborated with several departments for complex migration of all the applications. This provided big revenue savings as thousands of confidential.
• This gave birth to a system which is called vUWS today with 100 of units on e learning environment

Consultant

Maintained administered network of Sun Servers, Storage and Backups Devices running Clear Case Multi Site

Consultant Migration Qantas

• Designed, built, configured and fine tuned new high end Sun Fire System and collaborated with multiple teams to migrate business critical, resource intensive, complex applications like O D, CPR and MIDT Revenue savings
• Architected, procured and configured enterprise wide central backup system NetBackup Reliable Backups