SUMMARY

• I am a Certified PMP and ITIL Release & Control Practitioner with more than 15 years of experience working with Big businesses in the areas of Change Control, Configuration, Build and Release Management out of a total of 20+ years, as sole contributor and leader in software/firmware industry performing tasks including preparing specifications, design, develop, build, test, release, maintain, mentor and manage the software applications for mission critical operations in various software/IT projects spanning a wide variety of application areas like Higher Education, Electrical Engg., MIS, Biomedical Engg., Electronic Instrumentation, Support service tools, E - business.
• I have excellent communication skills that makes me a people person. Cool but courageous by nature and very positive in thinking. Outgoing by nature and highly motivated to learn new technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Change Management and QA Tools: Serena Business Manager (10.x) - 1 year, Serena Team Track - 5 years, PVCS Tracker - 6 yrs., PVCS Version Manager 8.0/6.5 - 6 yrs., ClearCase -1 yr, CMVC - 4 months, Install Shield - 1 -1/2 yrs, VISUAL SourceSafe - 6yrs, Visual Build - 6 mon, Ant 1.0/1.5 - 2.5 yrs

Project Management Tools/Practices: Sharepoint, SDLC, Microsoft Office O365 ProPlus/ 2013/2010/ 2007/2000/ '97 (for Power point, excel and word), Microsoft Project 2010/ 2003/2000/ '98, Visio 5.0, SAPU, Rational Unified Process.

IT Network Configuration Tools: Lansweeper, Microsoft Visio 2016, Microsoft SharePoint 2016

Methodologies Used: Scrum, Agile, ITIL, PMBOK (PMI), CMM (SEI) - Level 2, Method1 (Andersen Consulting), CMM Level 5, Lean 6 Sigma

Operating systems: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows 2007, WINDOWS 2003, WINDOWS-2000/NT, UNIX, LINUX, DOS, Windows Vista, WINDOWS XP, WINDOWS'95/98, WINDOWS3.1, AIX, MVS, AS 400

Databases: SQL Server (7 yrs.), UNIDATA (4 yrs.), DB2 (2.5yrs.), MSACCESS (2.5yrs.), SYBASE (1 year) DBASE III (1 year)

Internet Tech. Tools: J2EE, XML including the following development and deployment tools - Eclipse 2.0, VAJ 3.5/4.0, Web Sphere 3.5/5.0, WSAD, Host Publisher 3.5/5.0, JDK 1.2/1.4, Net Beans, Tomcat, IIS, Visual Studio .NET

Programming Languages: C++ / C - 11 years, (ANSI C, Turbo C/C++, VC++), JAVA - 8 years, COBOL - 1 year (on IBM S-370), BASIC - 15 years (on PC), FORTRAN IV - 4 years (on IBM S-370)

Other Tools/Languages: ERP - Ellucian (Formerly Datatel) Colleague 18.0/17.0, VB (6.0/5.0), VC++(MFC 6.0/5.0), VJ++(6.0/5.0), ATL / DCOM COM), Install Shield, Visual Build. Working knowledge of WINSOCK, TCP/IP Programming, JSP, DHTML, CSS, DOM, ASP, ISAPI, EJB, MQSeries, Action Request System (Remedy)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Release Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop & modify Change, Release and Configuration Management processes of the CIS project consistent with ITIL Information Technology Service Manage Framework.
• Define & manage the Release Management process for CIS project
• Manage currently supported releases for all products in the NC CIS template.
• Liaison between System Office and the implementation of upgrades and support for the User Acceptance Testing & Beta Testing colleges.
• Convene the Change Control Board (CCB) meeting with all stake holders (consisting of Directors, Associate Directors, Team Leads, other Designated Project Team Members of College Information Systems (CIS) project, Subject Matter Experts and the System Administrators from all the 58 colleges).
• Review & monitor the progress of change requests approved by CCB, through final resolution.
• Manage CIS Project Release Calendar, present Project Release Status report at weekly CCB & publish it.
• Manage & track software releases through the life cycle as planned. Monitor the critical activities and proactively manage the risks identified.
• Review the work of team members to assure high quality of Software Development approved for Release while pro-actively looking for issues & resolving those that would impact customers before they become a problem.
• Responsible for preparing, managing, publishing and communicating the Forward Schedule of Changes on a weekly basis to all the users.
• Communicate changes implemented based on Meeting Approvals, via notifications, develop/maintain necessary documentation, participate regularly in various team meetings etc.
• Administration of Configuration/Change Tools.

Product Build Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Integration Build and Release coordinator responsible for 7 different products of the HATS project.
• Developing and modifying processes for the Integration Development Environment consistent with current industry practices in the areas of Change, Release and Configuration Management process.
• Responsible for implementation of Change, Release, and Configuration Management process including coordinating and planning for the installation of advance technologies (Ant/XML/BML/Perl and Java) over a diverse number of installation sites (Windows Servers, Unix, AIX, Linux, Sun/HP platforms).
• Tracking the update of changes to technology infrastructure of Integration Development Environment and responsible for developing automated releases to the Test Environments of the supported HATS Products.
• Update/maintain the Configuration Management Databases (CMVC source controls, Rational Clearcase and Rational Clearquest) to keep the Change Management Process current.
• Maintaining effective communication of the above changes in the form of notifications, developing/maintaining necessary documentation, participating regularly in various team meetings etc. This includes translating advance technical issues into understandable terms for non-technical users.
• Reviewing the work of assigned team members to assure high quality, quantity, and efficient operation of the Host Integration Projects change management process.

Confidential

QC Configuration management

Responsibilities:

• Developing & modifying processes for the DMV IRP Web Renewals (consisting of five different web applications) consistent with CMM Level 2 in the areas of Change, Release and Configuration Management process.
• Manage the Quality Control (QC), Change, Release, and Configuration Management process. This includes coordinating project planning for the installation of advance technologies and Administration of (Windows NT/2000 MS Servers, IBM Web Sphere Application Server, IIS 5.0 Web Server, Java technologies -J2EE, MQ Series, MS VSS, IBM’s Visual Age for Java, Eclipse) over a diverse number of installation sites (Development, Test and Production).
• Administering Configuration/Change Management Tools - MS Visual Source Safe & proprietary Tracker.
• Release Management of the currently supported products and tracking the update of changes to the technology infrastructure of DMV IRP project.
• Update/maintain the Configuration Management Databases and Change Management Tools (MS Visual Source Safe) to keep the Change Management Process current.
• Maintaining effective communication of the above changes in the form of notifications, developing /maintaining necessary documentation, participating regularly in various team meetings etc. This includes translating advance technical issues into understandable terms for non-technical users.
• Reviewing the work of assigned team members to assure high quality, quantity, and efficient operation of QC, Change, Release, and Configuration Management process for the DMV IRP Internet Renewals

Confidential, Shelton, CT

Build/Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage Change, Release, and Configuration Management process. This includes coordinating project planning for the installation of advance technologies (Windows Server, IIS, MS VSS, MSDE, Clearcase, Install shield 6.22, 'Visual Build', Visual C++) over a diverse number of installation sites (Development, Test and Production).
• Managing Releases to the CSO-US and CSO-Italy servers and tracking the update of changes to the technology infrastructure of CSO project.
• Update/maintain the Configuration Management Databases and Change Management Tools (MS Visual Source Safe, Clearcase) to keep the Change Management Process current.
• Maintaining effective communication of the above changes in the form of notifications, developing/maintaining necessary documentation, participating regularly in various team meetings etc.

Confidential

Peoria Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• The Service Technician Workbench is an industry standard and is a COM based launch pad (common platform) for launching all Confidential Service tools (there are seven applications launching from this container). My responsibility was to Coordinate the resources and manage the time schedules for the Service Technician Workbench Versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 with the following main tasks:
• Release Coordinator for the STW project:
• Localization Coordinator for the STW project:

Confidential

Application Localization Expert

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the Localization Kit and sending to all the concerned parties.
• Manage the Integration Build, Quality Control (QC), Change, Release, and Configuration Management process. This includes coordinating project planning for the installation and Administration of advance technologies (Windows NT MS Servers in six different languages including two double byte Languages- Chinese and Japanese, MS VSS, MSDE, RLMAN) over a diverse number of installation sites (Development, Test).
• Releasing the software products per the organizational guidelines and tracking the update of changes to the technology infrastructure of CIMPLICITY HMI Localization Project.
• Update/maintain the Configuration Management Databases and Change Management Tools (MS Visual Source Safe) to keep the Change and Configuration Management Process current.
• Maintaining effective communication of the above changes in the form of notifications, developing/maintaining necessary documentation, participating regularly in various team meetings, conference calls etc. This includes translating advance technical issues into understandable terms for non­technical users.