SUMMARY

IT Release Leader with over 15 yearsin tiered web design and software development in the Financial Services, Telecommunications,Investment Banking, Insurance, and Healthcare. Expertise in IT controls, build tools administration, mentoring, and managing global teams. Proven track record of delivering projects for Fortune 100 and start up companies on time and within budget constraints. Significant accomplishments include transforming software development to Agile, streamlining releases, and reducing defect leakage to production.Recent work migrating infrastructure to and from the cloud.

Continuous Integration Languages Databases Platforms

• Jenkins Hudson Java MySQL Centos
• Maven Ant Python Oracle Fedora
• Perforce Eiffel Microsoft SQL Server Ubuntu
• GitHub C Firebird Red Hat
• SVN PHP iOS
• Jira, Confluence Android

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Manager, Project Manager

• Migrated build and test tools to and from cloud in less than a year.
• Enabled automation testers to perform virtual browser testing on 25 browsers using Jenkins and Sauce Labs reducing regressions from manual 3 weeks with 20 testers to 4 days with 2 engineers for savings of over 4M.
• Led initiative to automate Android and iOS mobile device testing in Jenkins and Soasta across 22 devices to achieve 4.5 star rating.
• Founded development services operations team reducing downtime 75 .
• Directed build, release, and quality for 5.5B online payment system. Reported to the Senior Director of Web and Mobile Platforms.
• Initiated transformation of oldest public company into Agile development practices and continuous integration for 3X more releases per year.
• Managed 50 test engineers from 5 vendors and 4 continents for round the clock development and faster cycles.
• Spearheaded continuous deployment work with CA Nolio to automate 2 day long deployment process to under 4 hours.
• Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Fisheye/Crucible, Oracle, Apache, iOS, Android, Java, Java Script, Centos, Perforce, Savvis

Confidential

Quality Release Manager

• Led testing for PHP application in LAMP stack using Hudson deployed in outpatient eye surgery centers at John Muir Hospital
• Founded QA department and first outpatient medical iPad app company for paperless patient charting. Reported to the Chief Technical Officer.
• Hudson, Assembla, PHP, Rackspace, MySQL, Selenium, iOS, Fedora, SVN

Confidential

Member of Technical Staff

• Managed system administration at Verizon data centers to update over 800 smart mesh remote controls running Linux winning Verizon's Green and Sustainability Award.Facilitated solving emergent issues with Engineering and Operations for web based control systems and databases improving developer ratings by 20 .
• Confidential quality and support groups for green energy company start up saving 6M for Verizon Business. Reported to the Chief Technical Officer.
• Jira, Confluence, Bugzilla, Python, PHP, Firebird, Ubuntu, Smartmesh, Git

Confidential

Senior Ecosystem Analyst

• Evaluated outsourcing versus direct hire alternatives for testing staff to handle regular and seasonal app upload activity for 15 savings in staffing costs.
• Led automationreport project using Python, mySQL, and Django for realtime reporting for our CEO 24/7 instead of weekly.
• Managed app catalog ingesting over 1,200 apps a dayat the Long Term Evolution LTE Application Innovation Center. Reported to the Ecosystem Director.
• Initiated pilot for SalesForce implementation resulting in 19,000 seats integrated with our defect tracking system for streamlined escalations improving resolution times by 40 .
• Conceived of multi-factor quality assurance model to predict app risk based on features included in the app to reduce testing time down from 3 weeks at 2M annually to 3 days.
• Python, Django Perl, MySQL, Selenium, Ubuntu, Android, Git

Confidential

Release Manager

• Initiated firm's QA department with over 3M in hardware resulting in less leakages to production which saved 10M in compensation to clients.
• Managed change control and quality assurance, released applications including quantitative valuation, optimization, and trading.
• Controlled monthly software programs for Equity Money Manger firm with over 150B in assets. Reported to the Director of Software Engineering.
• Advised executives at Technical Steering Committee for SOX 404 IT Controls remediation.
• Orchestrated monthly releases of 280 applications and 40 application owners by providing support for change control board coordinating hardware and software releases.
• Eiffel, Python, MS SQL Server, Windows, Java, Perforce

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Provided technical sales support for location engine on web and mobile applications used for onboard navigation in Toyota cars and traffic by the California State Automobile Corporation. Reported to the EVP of Marketing.

BREW, Blackberry, Java, Java Script, HTML

Confidential

Project Manager

• Led development of firm's portfolio management product for a Quantitative Equity Modeling Company delivered as a Software as a Service SAAS . Reported to the VP of Program Management.
• Java, MS SQL Server, CVS, MS Project, Windows, Linux, C

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

• Supervised engineers and quality assurance staff, managed projects for web development consulting and package shipping / receiving software company. Reported to the VP of Engineering.
• Windows CE, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Java, Java Script, C

Confidential

Consultant

Independent privately owned firm which provided Microsoft Windows C development services to organizations.

Microsoft Visual Studio, C

Confidential

Team Leader

• Supervised junior engineers and off-site contractors. Managed the planning and implementation of functional and technical specifications for ManagePro 3.0. Lead functional specifications review sessions for ManagePro.
• Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland Studio, C

Confidential

Windows Programmer

Developed client side of a health information system in Windows using Microsoft Visual C . Supervised one junior programmer.

Microsoft Visual Studio, Unix, C

Confidential

Applications Developer

One of five programmers in a start-up environment developing Simply Money version 1.0 for Windows using Borland Turbo C .

Borland Studio, C

Confidential

Software Engineer

Developer in research development team working on expert systems and artificial intelligence for payroll systems.

Microsoft Visual Studio, C , DB Manager