SUMMARY

• SAFe 4 Advanced Scrum Master (SASM) Certified
• Dynamic and disciplined MBA - educated professional offering successful mentorship and leadership in Software Development, Project Management and Release Management with over 20 years of experience.
• Experienced with building IT and release management departments from the ground up, establishing key disciplines, roles and responsibilities, aligning IT to purpose and organizational objectives, action planning for success and hiring and retaining top talent.
• Seasoned Software professional with comprehensive Software Development, Project Management skill set, process improvement, system integration, requirement analysis, consulting, and workflow design.
• Drive for balanced leadership style promoting trust, relationships, responsibilities and accountability to drive performance, outcomes, and sustainable results.
• High Energy, Self-starter, Versatile, flexible, Personal responsibility and accountability, Business political maturity, and Experience in leading and building capable subordinates.
• Proficient problem solver who envisions business and technical perspectives to develop workable solutions.
• Ambitious, motivated, and goal driven achiever who guides organization in applying process and technology to business settings; provides value added and creates project deliverables in timely manner.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
• Led full software development life cycle (SDLC). Experience in change management, configuration management, source code management.
• Effective communicator with both high-level business executives (C-level) and technical professionals.
• Proven track record for product delivery, have outstanding communication skills, including oral, written and presentation.
• Experience in regulated and high-profile business sectors including financial industry, Healthcare, and private sector. Led, managed, and directed technical teams up to 14 staff
• Responsible for coordinating activities of project team, identifying appropriate resources needed, and developing schedules to ensure timely completion of project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SAP PI/PO, S/4 HANA
• QC/ALM
• Microsoft .NET Framework
• Financial background
• Rally
• Release Manager
• SAP NetWeaver
• Software Configuration Manager
• Agile / Scrum / Kanban
• ITSM Remedy
• Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Rosemead, CA

Project, Release, Delivery

Responsibilities:

• Working on major SAP multi-layer upgrade as Release Coordinator for all Application, Database, enabling technologies and Infrastructure coordination.
• Successfully, oversee release decisions and processes in terms of the big picture, including cross departmental impacts and managing overall non production environment usage, configuration, and scheduling of the different test environments for each release.
• Facilitate release planning meetings with key stakeholders to identify proper sequencing of release scope, schedule, deliverables, and roll back plan, including reviews release recommendation with key stakeholders. Release Management Lead for Production application release, planning, and support. This includes coordination, scheduling, and status reporting of all applications from low level test environments to production implementation.
• Ensure proper support and service delivery with critical infrastructures, systems and applications stability and availability. Providing expertise in complex technical integrations, migrations and change management processes.
• Established an organization technical vision and oversee all aspects of delivery and release management
• Mindset and clarity that brings credibility to leadership and decision making of all aspects of the project. Adept in designing, building, testing, managing, and releasing enterprise applications, systems, infrastructures and data centre environments

Confidential, Agoura Hills, CA

Project Release Management

Responsibilities:

• Release Management Lead for Production application release, planning, and support. This includes coordination, scheduling, and status reporting of all applications from low level test environments to production implementation.
• Managed critical strategic projects in demanding environment and providing clear and consistent and manage IT project intake process and prioritization communication to the stakeholders with IT and Business.
• As a Project Release Manager, I manage, mentor a team, and provide technical leadership and guidance of Release Engineers that is responsible for all online, middle tier and mobile applications.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and excellent time management skills
• Work with leadership team, executives, development managers, operations, and quality assurance to ensure software packages are released in a consistent manner and I am comfortable working with varying levels of business and technical staff, exhibit poise and exercise diplomacy in communication, conflict management and decision-making.
• Delivered many successful releases every month, establish continuous deployment processes, and strong knowledge of process.
• Provided daily communications, scrum notes, sprint reviews reports, and regular snapshots of project velocity and budget burn rate.
• Bring teams to an even higher level of performance and engage Scrum Masters or product owners
• Break down concepts into user stories and prioritize the product backlog
• Discuss requirements and stories with the development team
• Working relationship with business and vendors management
• I have proactively build trust and relationships with our partners, including vendors.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Sr. Project Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing Confidential 's cross-functional IT Projects ranging from $100K up to $8MM, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, and issues.
• Responsible for the overall performance and delivery of large / cross-functional application releases as well as overseeing the release projects and processes in terms of the big picture / cross-departmental impacts.
• Provides clear and consistent communication of releases status to IT and Business Stakeholders and ensures that all issues and risks are identified, understood early and dealt with in a manner that mitigates surprises, risk to scope, cost, and schedule.
• Among other aspects, Sami develops and maintains standard release documentation - plans, agendas, action items list, deliverables and ensure adherence to Confidential Project Management Standards and Software Development Lifecycle best practices and manage a high degree of change in a fast paced, complex and demanding environment
• One of the strong point about Sami is he continuously establishes and sustain strong on-going relationships with IT and business partners.

Confidential, Agoura Hills, CA

Project/Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Providing leadership skills in Project Management and Release Management.
• Managing project releases/migration to ensure it follows the company’s best practices.
• Coordinating deployment instructions and readiness review as control points.
• Managing execution and providing up-to-date status on all project releases/migrations always.
• Project releases/code migration from Development to QA, QA to Staging, Staging to UAT, UAT to Pre-Production, and Production

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Configuration/Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Providing leadership skills in Project Management and Release Management.
• Introducing the idea to plan for the requirements and apply structured approach to ensure efficient and effective release management process.
• Stream lining project management and release management and a structured process.
• Responsible for the overall planning, design, and execution of defined projects within the IT department
• Lead the coordination and drive the requirements, design, development, and delivery of the products.
• Keeping a very tight communication with business, project managers, and development managers to ensure successful releases.
• Coordinated with Project Managers to ensure timely releases and track progress of the project.
• Assisting team in both independently and in a team-oriented environment.
• Leading efforts on shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating.
• Playing a key role in eliciting cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments.
• Ensuring releases are bundled together to minimize the impact on the user.
• Assisting and verify correctness, usability, and functionality of the product before release by testing in advance.

Confidential, Pomona, CA

Configuration/Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Project Managers to ensure timely releases and track progress of the project.
• Coordinate with test, development and IT Service Management teams during product release.
• Ensure alignment with release calendar during different phases of project.
• Audited and evaluated systems applications in accordance with established corporate standards for accuracy.
• As a Release Manager determined sample sizes based on written guidelines to gather evidence.
• Interview process owners to gather information and documents pertaining to their controls and communicated recommendations for deficiencies.
• Proficient user of Remedy Software from BMC for Configuration Management, Incident, Problem, Change Management, and Release Management
• Successfully implemented code from VSS to ClearCase.
• Publishing .NET 2005 and 2008 code base on QA and PROD sites.