Release Manager Resume

SUMMARY:

Insightful, analytical and responsive IT PROJECT / RELEASE MANAGER with a proven track record of success.
Creative and innovative problem solver who thrive s on challenges, displays grace under pressure and gets the job done.
Diligent, bright and resourceful team player who possesses outstanding interpersonal and strong communication skills.
Quietly assertive/hands - on leader and coach, organized and thorough planner and diplomatic negotiator dealing effectively across all levels of the organization.
Accustomed to a fast pace and multiple programs, fulfills priorities and balances competing agendas while maintaining a strong business focus, delivering high quality systems and outstanding user satisfaction when managing complicated projects.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Project Management: including initiation and consensus building, creating agenda, document/reporting on meetings, project monitoring and control, communicating and bringing stakeholders to agreement, project closing and sign-off.

Product Release Management: including client relations, budgeting and cost control, monitoring personnel, controlling deadlines and change management, closing and release.

Software Development Life Cycle: including documenting functional requirements, technical specification, use cases; unit, regression and load testing.

Communication Management: including initiating and leading stakeholder meetings, building consensus, prioritizing agendas, leading weekly status meetings, writing build scripts in dot net and Linux environments, and management reporting.

Vendor Management: including purchasing integrated circuits, bid writing and evaluation, negotiating licensing and maintenance agreements, contract negotiations; and monitoring quality, time and cost.

Software Tool Smith: including evaluating and selection of available software, proof of concept, justification, implementation, mentoring Developers and archiving test results.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE:

Release Manager

Confidential, Berkeley Heights, NJ

Responsibilities:

Responsible for branching and merging code in development along with setting automated nightly builds.
Managed the upgrade of the build servers, matrix managed 4 System Operators and reported to the Senior Manager.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Release Manager / Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Sharepoint from kick-off to sign-off including calendar creation on a yearly basis, two deployments monthly, participation in Master Control Room project deployments, and management of a weekly Release Status Meeting. Matrix managed 18-20 stakeholders (client, business owner, developers, QA, engineers, DB, and operations). Reported to Senior Vice President.
Also managed SalesForce application development.
To keep to schedule while undergoing a server migration and incorporating several overdue Microsoft required patches, leased and coordinated between operations, engineering, development and testing.
Chaired Release Status Meetings weekly.

Confidential

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

Trouble-shot development issues with check-out revision and permissions and change control. Reported to Vice President of Build & Packaging Team.
To migrate the entire code base from Confidential to MS Team Foundation server, as part of 3 person team, moved the entire version, managed code base and set-up new users.
Mentored all new users. achieved successful migration while facilitating integration with other MS tools; made possible pipeline that improved development efficiency for ML.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Successfully lead hundreds of deployments for major JAVA releases and patches for Confidential . which managed $186,000,000,000 in assets.
Mentored deployment participants, chaired run book meetings and confirmed resource list.
Personally managed release and upgrade with al hedge clients (150+).

Release Manager

Confidential, Lawrence, NJ

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the build and promotion of code through the development life cycle.
Matrix managed 8-10 professional stakeholders.
Established weekly Stakeholders Release Management meetings.
Saved dollars in development time as Mentor of Unit Testing Process and establishing signoff method.
Created builds from Confidential on Linux and promote across environments.
Deploy using html, SQL, and ant scripts.

Release Manager

Confidential, Hoboken, NJ

Responsibilities:

Responsible for development of a software configuration management plan using IEEE standards.
Integrated 3 unique departments. achieved cross functional ability to key staff and development resources while negotiating consensus of unwilling partners.

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