ECSI-5058-Sr Release Manager-Contract-6Months-Redmond,WA,USA-VP Description Of Services: Senior - 10+ Yrs Experience The release manager organizes, directs, and manages activities for building and maintaining software and infrastructure releases for their promotion through a series of non-production platforms, ultimately leading to a production environment implementation. Essential Functions/Responsibilities: ? Organize and coordinate complex releases that comprise of cross-functional teams and a multitude of interrelated and independent application and/or infrastructure changes ? Establish enterprise release schedules ? Ensure resource (people and technology) requirements in support of a release are met ? Ensure risk mitigation practices are in place (i.e. back out/contingency planning, etc…) ? Ensure existing change management process requirements are met ? Provide on-going written and verbal release status updates to various levels of the organization ? Serve as the key release representative in all communication, management and decision-making forums/discussions (i.e. Change Management, Enterprise Project Framework, Stage Gates, Post Release Review, etc…) ? Serve as an escalation point for all issues and questions associated with a release ? Ability to be flexible and use subject matter experts, circumstantial evidence and sound judgment to mitigate risks by adjusting releases and/or release management process requirements ? Uses post release reviews to improve and adjust documentation on the release process, roles and responsibilities, policies and procedures ? Uses post release reviews to improve and adjust the release management process Qualifications - Specific Job Skills: ? Solid understanding and practical experience of Release and Deployment Management ? Proven ability to effectively lead and partner with various levels of the organization to define and execute cross-functional technical initiatives and/or service delivery processes ? Proven relationship management skills ? Understanding and practical experience of software development life cycles, with emphasis on release engineering functions ? Excellent customer service attitude, communication, and interpersonal skills ? Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills ? Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills using various mediums with broad target audiences ? Strong knowledge of testing and defect tracking tools ? Ability to work under pressure and in high stress situations with a calm demeanor Experience: ? 10+ year’s technical experience information technology from any of the following disciplines (release management, project management, systems development, systems administration, systems engineering, quality assurance) ? 7+ years’ experience release management, service delivery and/or similar process ? 5+ years’ experience leading and managing teams across multiple locations and demonstrated ability to lead and motivate cross functional teams ? Proven track record of writing, managing and tracking against a plan ? Experience establishing a new, ITIL-based service delivery processes, such as release management, in medium to large environment a strong plus Education and/or Certifications Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT or related field or equivalent experience PMP Certification a strong plus ITIL Certification a strong plus Thanks and Best Regards, Vijaiprabu N Empower Consultancy Services Inc., USA | UK | India viajiprabu@empowercsi | empowercsi Gtalk - ecsi.vijaiprabu | Skype - ecsi.vijaiprabu After Office Hours - USA :510-512-8069(W)|510-371-5544(C)|510-578-8255(C)|510-740-3549(F) UK :044-137223-6323 | India :91-9940045456
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:21:26 +0000
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