Software Engineer Manager

DARYA KOYFMAN

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RELEASE MANAGER in an AGILE ENVIRONMENT

Lead team in taking releases from vision to product, continuously working to remove impediments, increase productivity, and

produce high quality products that exceed ROI. Readily identify methodology challenges and recommends solutions for

improving the Agile environment. Improve overall operations with ITIL-based processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ETL, Informatica, Oracle, MS Access, PL/SQL, ER Studio, SQL Loader Concept, SQL Plus, HTML/CSS, Perforce, Rally

CERTIFICATION

ITIL

METHODOLOGIES

Agile (Rally), Waterfall, Iterative Development, Rapid Application Development (RAD), Joint Application Development (JAD)

EXPERIENCE

Release Manager April 2007 to Present

Edmunds.com, Santa Monica, California

Coordinate and direct Data Base release processes and workflows utilizing Agile scrum methodology based on two week iteration

for efficiency in development and to create an electronic trail for auditing. Create user stories and tasks using Agile software,

Rally. Test scripts in integration environments, troubleshot errors, and edit scripts. Build packages for DB Releases. Created and

maintained documentation using Confluence. Maintain DB schema documentation and augmentation with ER studio. Manage

Perforce (version control system) structures and accounts. Oversee software upgrades.

- Managed implementation of the back-end processes for the Edmunds car inventory system, processing millions of pieces

of inventory each night. Delivered the system, accounting for $60 million of the company’s revenue, in just 8 months.

- Implemented company policies, technical procedures and standards for preserving the integrity and security of data, reports

and access.

- Effectively collaborate with DBAs, developers, offshore groups, and business users to define Data Base release paradigms.

- Improve transparency on team progress through burndown charts outlining sprint and release progress. Incorporate changes to

release plan on a sprint-by-sprint basis to improve productivity.

- Oversee the seamless promotion and deployment to Dev, Test and Production environments, using a custom DB versioning

system built in-house, upon completion.

- Achieve a 100% on time delivery rate.

Team Lead March 2002 to August 2007

Perot Systems, Cedars-Sinai MC, Los Angeles, California

Supported system hardware, peripherals, and software at Cedars Sinai and related facilities. Utilized monitoring tools (Spectrum

and SNS) to identify, isolate, and resolve problems with network devices, malfunctioning servers, applications, and data gate

links. Managed change and problem management policies and procedures using Remedy and OPAS SLA. Maintained software

libraries. Created procedures that streamlined Data Center Operations processes.

Software Engineer July 2000 to February 2002

Full Moon Interactive FMIG, Los Angeles, California

Software Engineer January 1998 to July 2000

A & G Management, Los Angeles, California

EDUCATION

Master of Arts in Librarian Science; St.Petersburg University of Culture and Art, St.Petersburg, Russia; 1991

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