Senior Release Manager with extensive experience in software and gaming title deployments seeking an opportunity to drive business results through innovative and measureable release management programs.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

• Developed release solution to drive successful deployment of a new Face Tracking technology adapted to the Xbox 360 Kinect platform with over 300,000 downloads in the first four months.
• TFS 2010 deployment and administration. Customization and design for multiple teams, workflows and reporting.
• Proven experience and dedication in product design, management and deployment.
• Demonstrated capability to work with R D teams from multiple disciplines driving products to release.
• Successfully led many cross group project releases.

CURRENT ROLE

Confidential

Operations Program Manager

• End-to-end tactical coordination of operational programs, working with Product Groups and other Microsoft cross-team/group stakeholders to ensure successful execution and timely delivery of program outcomes.
• Tactical execution of project-related tasks such as the following:
• Create work items e.g. Change Requests for various stakeholder teams responsible for project task execution
• Tracking the completion of tasks performed by the various teams
• Persistent and detail-oriented oversight and follow-up on late-running or unassigned/unaddressed tasks
• Timely revisions of project schedule/plan as required, in response to deviations from expected outcomes.

PREVIOUS ROLE

Confidential

Program Manager/TFS Administrator

• Drive the Team Foundation Server TFS conversion from multiple legacy systems and processes to a unified TFS system.
• Responsible for entire end-to-end conversion to TFS, including planning, design, implementation, training, data/process transformation, administration and support.
• Published release specifications, process, setup, and support documentation.
• Provided weekly, monthly and release-to-date reports to all management levels.

Confidential

Release Manager Research and Development

• Drove release of Avatar Kinect Version 1 for Xbox 360 via Xbox Live, showcasing new Face Tracking Technology customized to the Xbox 360 Kinect Platform
• Lead project release, localization, MSG Certification, and multiple Xbox Live Beta offerings. Coordinated with Xbox Platform Team, Xbox Live, CSS, MSG, Good Science, Kinect Share and other internal MS teams. Provided support and presented numerous product demonstrations for internal and external audiences.
• Managed the conversion to MS Visual Studio Team Foundation Server TFS from Product Studio, Source Depot and various test applications, automating many build and reporting processes.
• Redesigned the Team SharePoint website.
• Published release specifications, process, setup, and support documentation.
• Provided daily, weekly, monthly and release-to-date reports to all management levels.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Managed all aspects of multiple construction projects. Job estimation, time management, vendor management, material purchasing, safety compliance, quality control, team building, building codes, construction planning, scheduling, and budgeting.

Confidential

Release Manager

• Managed IE release for Windows Vista SP1 release. Published project plans, scope and deliverable documentation. Drove all design changes, hotfixes and security updates into the Windows Vista SP1 release. Negotiated business requirements, managed issues, schedules and risks. Designed and evaluated custom tools. Managed multiple pilot releases beta/release candidate . Provided status to team and executive management and was primary point of contact for IE Team.
• Drove Re-release of IE 7 IE7b Solely responsible for entire project including Executive Management approval, project planning, budgets, and design changes. Successful eight month worldwide release for all localized languages, releasing via MS.com, MS Download Center, WSUS, and MSDN.

Confidential

Hotfix Manager

Responsible for all Internet Explorer Hotfix releases. Designed and implemented new hotfix release process changing from individual releases to batched recurring release cycles. Teamed with other groups like MSRC, Office and Microsoft.com to integrate new IE processes throughout all Microsoft releases.

Confidential

Senior Program Manager

Drove design and implementation for new internal security patch management process. Produced project plans, scope and deliverables documentation. Managed multiple world-wide pilot releases and provided appropriate project status communications.

Confidential

Lead Program Manager

Involved in Design and Implementation for the Windows Product Activation project. Created and drove plan for internal deployment of worldwide single user product license distribution service and support for Windows XP. Drove the internal release thorough the software development life cycle and authored two white papers on the technology and deployment.

Confidential

Program Manager

Managed internal software release projects thorough the software development life cycle. Delivered successful results with available resources and compressed time frames. Managed budgets, reported status, worked with various new technologies, negotiated cross team cooperation to meet and exceed expectations.

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