Project Manager/enterprise Release Manager Resume
SUMMARY:
Looking to obtain a senior to leadership level position to utilize my education and 11+ years of diverse IT background and experience at a reputable company that has the drive to be competitive for the future.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
SKILLS: ITIL | ITSM | Agile | Waterfall | Change Management | Release Management | Deployment Management | Incident Management | Environment Management | Project Management | Defect Management | Vendor Management | Capacity Planning | Enterprise Business Critical System Management | System Integration | QA Support | DevOps | Cross - Functional Team Management | System/Software Development Lifecycle | Sigma Green Belt | HP Application Lifecycle Management/Quality Center/Service Management | JIRA | CA Service Desk/Catalog | Service Now | Microsoft Project | Sarbanes Oxley | AS/400 | IBM Mainframe Tools and Utilities | Facets | WebEx | Microsoft Office 95 - Windows 10 | SAP| COBOL | CICS | TSO | JCL | SQL | SAS | CICS | DB2 | MDM | Databases | Servers | Network | Storage | VSAM | FTP | Java | Windows Applications | MQ Visual Browse | WebSphere Admin Console | Database Warehouse | CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS: Management | Leadership | Communication | Relationship Building | Time Management | Organization | Proactive | Teamwork | Coordination | Initiator | Process Driven | Multi-Task | Technical | Functional
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: Manufacturing | Supply Chain | Financial | Insurance | Healthcare | Transportation | Aviation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Project Manager/Enterprise Release Manager
Responsibilities:
- Plan and manage all release activities working with the impacted teams within assigned portfolio(s)
- Responsible for managing release lifecycle and ensuring all key milestones are met from inception to operation for assigned portfolio(s)
- Plan releases including developing and updating the release schedule across the assigned portfolios
- Work with the different impacted application teams to understand the integration points and dependencies and build a release plan
- Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
- Develop release scripts and oversee development of tools used for the releases
- Conduct script reviews and Go/No Go Meeting with impacted teams
- Initiate and manage deployment of release on go live date
- Provide release notes upon Pre-Production deployment
- Key liaison between application development and eQA to communicate release windows
- Submit RFCs and participate in CAB Reviews for assigned releases
- Verify that all entry criteria for deployment is fulfilled
- Maintain a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists
- Conduct Lessons Learned Session following release
- Maintain release calendar for assigned portfolio(s)
- Create and publish portfolio level release status report
Confidential
Release and Deployment Manager, Homewood, IL
Responsibilities:
- Release/Deployment policy and planning.
- Capacity Planning
- Develop Release strategy.
- Ensure teams follow the organization’s established policy and procedures.
- Provide management reports for exceptions to the Release process.
- Participate in Post Implementation Review (PIR).
- Produce Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
- Facilitate Release control gates.
- Key member of CAB.
- Receive, log, qualify, and assign all Release requests.
- Publish build, test and deployment plan.
- Conduct Release plan and readiness reviews.
- Ensure coordination of build and test environments and Release teams.
- Work closely with Test Manager to review Releases, assign appropriate Release testing tasks, compile and review Testing Deliverables, conduct testing as needed and supporting documentation review.
- Manage Configuration Items (CI).
- Communicate release depositions.
- Ensure training and knowledge documents are provided to the appropriate audience.
- JIRA Tracking
Confidential
Consultant
Environment: /Incident/Change/Release Management
Responsibilities:
- Oversee and coordinate the infrastructure on which application systems development and deployment efforts reside.
- Oversee infrastructure tools and services that support environments and the application systems and databases that use these services.
- Assist with supporting environments.
- Track environment content and coordinate the propagation of changes through multiple(30+) environment: s, supporting software, infrastructure and data release efforts, product configurations and version control for multiple concurrent development, testing and post deployment support environments.
- Track changes that impact the environments such as data, database, application, infrastructure or configuration/tuning efforts.
- Implement process improvement initiatives, risk analysis and remediation planning and ensure the proactive monitoring and control of environment to preempt any service outages.
- Establish direction, standards and procedures for environment monitoring, maintenance, tuning and enhancement.
- Troubleshoot environments for infrastructure related issues, possibly fix these issues or coordinate with appropriate Infrastructure Teams to resolve.
- Manage infrastructure operations level agreement and coordinate with Testing, Operations, Change Control, Release Management, Enterprise Architectures Services, Database Operations, Data Conversion teams, Service Desk support, Problem Management and other teams.
- Lead all calls as it relates to environment needs and report to leadership
- Create document system flows and configuration
- Incident Management
- Vendor Management
- Capacity Planning
- Lead multiple projects and service changes to Production
- Provide documentation at each level of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Conduct effective meetings throughout all phases with appropriate project discipline leads.
- Execute SQL
- Disaster recovery procedures
- Mainframe Systems
- DB2 Databases
- Servers
- Storage
- Distributed Systemsand
- Agile
- ServiceNow
- JIRA
- HPSM
Confidential
Technical Analyst/Coordinator | Bloomington, IL
Responsibilities:
- Accept the changes
- Prioritize and classify changes
- Coordinate change impact assessment
- Coordinate approval of changes
- Coordinate scheduling of changes
- Coordinate implementation of changes
- Conduct post implementation reviews
- Create and execute deployments using implementation plan
- Responsible for all aspects of testing
- Provide management information about Change Management quality and operations in order to make informed decision of the go or no-go of a Change
- Participate in post development activities
- Facilitated resolutions of issues and escalated issues as they arise during deployment
- Communicate status to Senior Management such as VP’s
- Lead Projects and Service Changes to Production
- Provide documentation at each level of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Conduct Effective Meetings throughout all phases with appropriate project discipline leads
- Make corresponding changes to plans as issues arise
- Able to ask questions as it pertains to projects to gain more understanding and knowledge of project using technical terms from background as a developer
- Able to translate technical changes to Management in terms where they can understand
- Participated in the approval process by providing feedback on risks and assessments of a requested change
- Lead multiple assignments simultaneously and successfully
- Conduct Effective Meetings throughout all phases with appropriate project discipline leads
- Good Understanding working with SQL
Confidential
Technology Solutions Consultant, Peoria, IL
Responsibilities:
- Coordinated and controlled all changes to IT services to minimize adverse impacts of those changes to business operations and the users of IT services by using the following processes:
- Accepted the changes
- Prioritized and classified changes
- Coordinated change impact assessment
- Coordinated approval of changes
- Coordinated scheduling of changes
- Coordinated implementation of changes
- Conducted post implementation reviews
- Provided management information about Change Management quality and operations
- Provided documentation at each level of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Conducted Effective Meetings throughout all phases with appropriate project discipline leads
- Made corresponding changes to plans as issues arise
- Asked questions as it pertains to projects to gain more understanding and knowledge of project
- Good Understanding working with SQL
- Experience as a mainframe developer in COBOL, JCL and DB2
- Experience in SAS