SUMMARY:

Managed complicated projects, delivered high - quality, timely results, and generated outstanding customer satisfaction. Strengthened business focus, responded to challenges, and created and implemented innovative responses to problems in a fast-paced, multi-project environment. Accomplished priorities and unified agendas. Planned simultaneous projects and negotiated details across all organizational levels. Led teams, built strong bonds, and strengthened communications. Transformed and directed teams utilizing a quietly assertive and hands-on approach.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Agile

ANT

Application Management

Big Data

Citrix

Continuous Integration Development

Documentation

Eclipse

Excel

IEEE & ITIL

Integration Management

Java

Linux

MS Office 2013

Project Management

Release Management

Software Configuration Management

SQL

System Conversion

Team Foundation Server

VI

Web Development

.NET Framework

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Somerville, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create a plan to develop a searchable web portal
• Create and developed use cases, resolved competing demands
• Established stakeholders and report on IT Department progress

Confidential, Plainfield, NJ

Student

Responsibilities:

• Completed eight certification courses including: Project Management Professional 5, Big Data Apache Hadoop 2, Core Java 8, Microsoft TSQL 2012, Agile, Microsoft Office 2013 Intermediate to Advanced Access, Excel, and PowerPoint

Confidential, Berkeley Heights, NJ

Release Manager, Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Controlled branching and merging code in an Agile development environment using TortoisSVN and TeamCity and scheduled automated nightly builds
• Managed the integration and upgrade of 16 build servers using vCloud Director
• Started hundreds builds, scheduled nightly builds, and automated testing using Team City
• Provided contributions to daily Scrum meetings in an Agile development environment
• Set up VM Billing and UAT Suite build servers daily for Claims, Policy, and Billing environment

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Release Manager, Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Managed SharePoint from kick-off to sign-off, including calendar creation on a yearly basis and two monthly deployments
• Matrix managed 18-20 stakeholders: client, business owner, developers, QA, engineers, DB, and operations
• Achieved 100% on-time deliveries
• Chaired Release Status Meetings weekly
• Saved firm over $535,000 in licensing and maintenance costs over a 2-year period
• Worked on 3 Master Control Room corporate-wide project deployments
• Led weekly Release Status Meeting
• Reported to Senior Vice President
• Managed Salesforce application development
• Devised way to adhere to schedule while undergoing a server migration and incorporating several overdue Microsoft required patches
• Provided coordination between operations, engineering, development, and testing

Network Engineer Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed innovative method to install application suite
• Resolved thousands of development issues with check-out revision and permissions and change control
• To migrate the entire code base from PVCS to MS Team Foundation server, as part of three-person team, moved the entire version, managed code base and set-up new users
• Streamlined process, resolved issues, built, and deployed client application, using CVS and Visual Studio in a C++, C# environment
• Worked as volunteer database administrator for NJ DOL Professional Services Group

Confidential, Fairfield, NJ

SCM/ Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reduced development time by 30% and subsequent cost as administrator of software code archive (i.e., vss)

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented hundreds of deployments for major releases and patches
• Maintained positive client relations with over a 100 clients via contacts for all production deployments, scheduling,Citrix and desktop Deployments in a J2E environment

Confidential, Lawrence, NJ

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Matrix managed 8-10 professional stakeholders
• Supervised software builds, using Linux and promoted code through the development life cycle for 16 clients environments
• Established and conducted weekly Stakeholders’ Release Management meetings
• Saved thousands of dollars in development time as mentor of unit testing process and established signoff method
• Deployed software using HTML, SQL, and Ant scripts

Confidential, Hoboken, NJ

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Improved and Managed Java code and document archives sor 330 users
• Change Management for Port Openings, Oracle database changes, Deployments and Internetwork Connectivity

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed a software configuration management plan based on IEEE standards
• Achieved cross-functional capability between 16 (Obtained Signoff) key staff and development resources and negotiated consensus with unwilling partners
• Administered SCM tool residing on Apache Server
• Developed UNIX shell scripts to: create patches, revisions, promotions, weekly builds, versions and prepare releases

Intranet Load Tester

Confidential, Paramus, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Developed, executed, and automated Mercury LoadRunner-based stress and load test scripts for national sales business planning internet application emulating up to 2300 simultaneous users
• Developed and implemented SQL to extract "live" Oracle data into Access databases that facilitated the testing of stored procedures and data validation
• Commended for job well done in quarterly newsletter
• Served as Toolsmith for "Business at Once" Intranet Billing Process Application
• Implemented a method to put CVS archive tool on shared server making it available to remote locations
• Saved the company $14,000 in licensing and maintenance fees money through initiation of companywide agreements between Confidential / Fujitsu tool vendors