SUMMARY:

• Dynamic, versatile, and accomplished Software Management professional with significant experience and success in driving process improvements, evolving release ecosystems, and leading top - performing teams.
• Excels with mission-critical and compliancy companies.
• Navigates organizations through all stages of continuous and rapid software development and deployment.
• Recognized for aligning proper tools and forging effective vendor relationships; ensures implementation success and future support.
• Thouroughly vets all configurations and implementation plans.
• A self-starter who thrives in collaborative, team-oriented environments.
• A pragmatic problem-solver; proven expertise in leading transformation efforts. Highly motivated, articulate, and resourceful.
• Facilitated the Agile Process through direct demonstration and implementation of Rational Team Concert to a 500 member organization.
• Successfully executed the following aspects
• Introduced Agile to organization
• Provided Agile 101 Classes
• Stood up 20+ teams using Scrum (Agile)
• Coached decision makers, developers, architects, infrastructure engineers, product owners, and QA teams on how their roles change in an Agile environment
• Assisted with the execution of story writing working sessions with Development Managers
• Provided targeted training for Scrum Masters and Product Owners with the RTC implementation project over 2 years
• Facilitated backlog grooming (standup meetings, iteration planning, iteration review, retrospectives)
• Acted as Scrum Master and mentor for sprints during the initial RTC role out
• Acted as Product Owner and mentor for sprints during the initial RTC role out
• Recommended and facilitated the acquisition and implementation of equipment required to support Continuous Integration.
• Helped Development Managers and team leads understand the importance of velocity and got them to measure it and use it for planning
• Worked with teams to help them understand the importance of sufficient documentation for harmonious collaboration between departments and teams
• Coached and implemented accurate project metrics to be maintained by the teams to include sprint burndown, cost per storypoint, and budget burndown with the implementation of RTC and Jira
• Helped teams create dashboards with appropriate data for weekly product roadmap status presentations utilizing the features of Agile within RTC
• Guided inexperienced product owners through different release plans in the span of 12 months.
• Facilitated preliminary backlog grooming sessions

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Scrum Master Role - Product Owner Role - Retrospectives - Agile Estimation - RTC - Jira - Jenkins - Enterprise Agility - Disciplined Agile Delivery - Agile Coach - Refactoring - Agile Certifications Scrum Master/Product Owner

INDUSTRY TOOLS:

Source Control: ClearCase, Multisite, Accurev, Perforce, SVN, TFS, Rational Team Concert

Defect Tracking: ClearQuest, TTP, Jira, Service Desk

Build/Deploy: Jenkins, Maven, TFS, Artifactory, UrbanCode, BuildForge

Development: C#, .Net, Java, XML, Eclipse, Visual Studio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Southborough, MA

Manager, Release Engineering /Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined and implemented process and policies for end-to-end application development, testing, and deployment of web-hosted application suite.
• Established infrastructure, tool standardization, and transformation from Waterfall to Agile Rapid Development Organization.
• Configured and supported Software Development infrastructure including source control, defect tracking, change management, build automation, and deployment of releases to production.
• Built and motivated top-performing team of Principle Release Engineers with extensive background in tools integration, automation, and Agile methodology with focus of DevOps best practices
• Directed oversight of service delivery processes including incident management, problem management, request management, change management, service-level management, and configuration management
• Aligned compliancy and audit requirements with development and deployment of all applications
• Facilitated the introduction of Agile and Scrum to the organization
• Designed the process, implemented and facilitated daily Change Approval Board (CAB) meetings
• HIPAA compliant

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Manager, Release Engineering/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led team of Release Engineers overseeing daily operations of global mission critical organization with focus on Agile iterative process of rapid development/deployment.
• Mentored and motivated team members.
• Oversaw configuration and ongoing support of Software Development Infrastructure: source control, defect tracking, change management, build automation, and deployment of releases. Investigated, recommended, and implemented SCM tool solution supporting global parallel development organization.
• Integrated SCM tools and defect tracking application; introduced build automation with automated deployment.
• Collaborated with Enterprise Development and Quality Assurance organization to ensure SCM solution built awareness, understanding, buy-in, and support of Agile Methodologies.
• Ensured correct execution of change standards, guidelines, methodologies, and SCM solution
• Partnered with Enterprise IT and other businesses to ensure visibility of SCM and CCM integration; validated readiness for external initiatives and changes
• Verified documentation and deliverables identified purpose of change and success criteria; supported technical and organizational readiness
• RTC, CCM, RQM, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, SVN, C#, .Net, Java, XML
• Established SCM standards and policies and source control best practices aligning with Agile practices
• Implemented build automation with CI builds, build numbering, and release process
• Established RCA process, emergency fix and deployment process
• Customized documentation and training curriculum for RTC, SVN, and Jenkins applications
• Architected SVN and RTC build and release infrastructure aligning with Agile framework
• Migrated SVN to RTC Source Control, TTP to RTC/RQM defect tracking, and Quality Assurance testing
• Facilitated the introduction of Agile and Scrum to the organization.
• Influenced the investment into additional equipment to implement and support Continuous Integration
• Mentored teams on Agile Framework and best practices, understand Agile and execute, sprints, Scrum Meetings, Retrospectives
• Designed the process, implemented and facilitated weekly and emergency Change Approval Board (CAB) meetings
• HIPAA compliant

Confidential, Maynard, MA

Manager, Release Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Headed SCM/CM application systems processes, standards, implementation, and support activities for global development organization.
• Led build and deployment services for software production line automation efforts.
• Managed and developed Release Engineering professionals.
• Prepared documentation and training for users for new or enhanced applications.
• Completed business plan projects and changes on schedule and on budget
• Ensured 7 day/24 hour coverage and technical support for software problem resolution

Confidential, Maynard, MA

Manager, Release Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Headed SCM/CM application systems processes, standards, implementation, and support activities for global development organization.
• Led build and deployment services for software production line automation efforts.
• Managed and developed Release Engineering professionals.
• Prepared documentation and training for users for new or enhanced applications.
• Completed business plan projects and changes on schedule and on budget
• Ensured 7 day/24 hour coverage and technical support for software problem resolution
• Investigated and recommended SCM tools solution in support of global parallel development organization and monthly release cycle; devised overall SCM strategy and training
• Maintained budgetary costs across department; reduced 3rd party SCM annual maintenance agreements by 45%

Confidential, Merrimack, NH

Systems Engineering, Rational Tools Architect

Responsibilities:

• Supported 750+ user, multi-site configurations.
• Developed operational procedures and lifecycle standards for Rational Tools.
• Administered, configured; designed, and deployed ClearCase Multi-site ClearQuest and BuildForge applications.
• Established and implemented SCM standards and policies, Rational Tools ClearCase, ClearQuest, and BuildForge standards and architecture to user community
• Customized documentation and training curriculum for Rational Tools ClearCase, ClearQuest, and BuildForge
• Led formal ClearCase/ClearQuest on-demand training sessions for Deployment/Test community; eliminated need and cost of external IBM Rational training
• Deployed ClearQuest-enhanced schema with integration to Rational Tools UCM and MicroSoft Project
• Converted base ClearCase environment to UCM environment
• Architected ClearCase, ClearQuest, and BuildForge infrastructure
• Designed and deployed SharePoint/website for in-house user support
• ClearCase web-based client deployment CCRC; ClearQuest web-based client deployment