Manager/Release/Change Manager

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Release Management Training

Project Communications

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Ron Barthman

Manager / Project Manager / Release Manager at LTIM - Larsen &

Toubro Infotech/Mindtree

Pea Ridge, Arkansas, United States

Summary

Manager / Release Manager / Change Manager / Scrum Master/

Project Manager

Email: ***********@*****.***

Expertise in Software Configuration Management (SCM), Release

Management (RM), Change Management (CM), production support,

operations, and currently testing for Project Management PMP/PMI

• 10+ years using ITIL for Change, Release management.

• Develop and institutionalize SCM procedures to include controlled

promotions upon milestone completions, automated builds, and

deployment of code following ITIL and Agile Release technology

• Creating and facilitating Change control Boards

• Design of code library and establishment of SCM procedures for

development organizations to ensure proper packaging of modules

for installation

• Working knowledge of Global Model for resources

• Certified Scrum Master

• Develop and institutionalize SCM procedures to include controlled

promotions upon milestone completions, automated builds, and

deployment of code following ITIL and Agile Release technology

• Effective Leader, communicator, and team member with excellent

follow through and attention to detail

Please contact me at 479-***-**** with your needs for any

Manager / Release Manager / Change Manager / Scrum Master

questions.

Experience

LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech/Mindtree

Manager / Project Manager & Release Manager

February 2021 - Present (3 years)

Remote

In the LTIM Project management (PM) and Release Management (RM)

positions, I am responsible for creating and installing best practices for

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Release Management processes and procedures, attending all meetings for

LTIM relating to the status of LTIM to the client and supporting all aspects of

release management

• Create best practices for Release Management processes and procedure for

entire organization

• Present and bring teams into the release management wheelhouse for

releases, communications,

status reports, and training of employees.

• Supported Sr. PM for all PM and RM meetings and follow ups

• Follow through with creation of user ID for LTI and Client

Avantage Entertainment LLC

Release Manager

September 2020 - January 2021 (5 months)

Remote

In this position, it has been my responsibility to bring Avantage to agile release

and deployment process using best practices.

• Design /create release management pipeline for all environments

• Designed dual UAT/Staging/Production environments for deployment and

redundancy stack

• Accountable for the Release Management lifecycle, to include scheduling,

coordinating, and management of releases enterprise-wise for multiple

applications

• Create all documentation regarding release management for best practices

and deployment.

HGS Digital / Toyota

TFS Digital Process Assurance

April 2020 - September 2020 (6 months)

Dallas, Texas, United States Remote

With creation of all facets for Release Management, and the QA environments.

● Creation of Process for Release Management and QA Deployment

● Lead reporting, progress and work progress management and participation

in ceremonies and ad-hoc group interactions) for a team comprising 3 to 4

agile process engineering squads (of 2-3 experts each). These squads use a

custom methodology based on Lean and Agile methods to run 6-week sprints

to deliver (re)-engineered and ready to implement technology processes

against a COBIT based process framework

● Creation of Process for Incident / defect management

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● Lead (in partnership with an offshore implementation leader) a 4-6-person

agile implementation squad to run 2-week implementation sprints to implement

(re)-engineered and ready to implement technology processes produced by

the engineering squads

Mindtree / Southwest Airlines (COVID)

Sr. Release Manager

January 2020 - March 2020 (3 months)

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Senior Release

Manager

All aspects of Release Management using DASH (ServiceNow), Jira, DMT

(Deployment management tool), Process improvement.

• Involved with daily stand up meetings, CAB.

• Facilitating release for all environments

• Incident / defect management and triage.

• Create/monitor/closing of Jira request, Service Now

Creating/updating Confluence, and Kanban

Apex Systems / Wells Fargo

Manager Release Manager for Middleware

May 2019 - October 2019 (6 months)

Remote

Managed and trained team on Processes, Tools, and environment, under

contract for Wells Fargo.

• Point of Contact for all Release Management concerning Middleware.

• Created processes and procedures for Middleware, created and maintained

documentation, flow charts, using ITIL Release Technology standards.

• Developed and Coordinated cleanup process for tools and environment

conceding Middleware

MSCI Inc.

Sr Release Manager

July 2014 - December 2018 (4 years 6 months)

Norman, Oklahoma

Authorizing and organizing environment releases with creation of

documentation, release request, runbooks, status calls, sending out

notifications of completion to all stakeholders.

• Analyzed and evaluated production and non-production code releases of

multiple projects.

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• Supported 15 different products that generated over $400M in profit for MSCI

per year.

• Coordinated with Change Management with Global CAB meetings,

ensuring release management requests were approved and signed off before

coordinating with engineers for deployment.

• Conducted yearly SOC audits for release management, guaranteeing all

policies and business procedures were followed and approved.

• Created and maintained documentation for policies and procedures, flow

charts, and updates regarding Release Manager and products using Agile,

Waterfall, and ITIL Release Technology.

• Analyzed and evaluated new request systems (ServiceNow / ICCM)

regarding Release Manager, ensuring all requirements were followed /

installed and approved.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Manager SCM / Release Manager

April 2010 - June 2014 (4 years 3 months)

Bentonville Ak

Managed Release team authorizing production releases including authorizing

deployment checklist and request, facilitating Change Control Board (CCB)

for both North America, Japan, and Mexico, and sending out notifications and

status of approvals.

• Liaised for SCM in support for projects for Wal-Mart. As well as acquiring new

business / contracts of projects for Cognizant.

• Received awards for increasing revenue from $1.3M to $5.6M in profits for

Cognizant.

o Provided leadership in expanding resources count and delivery points to

over 200 distribution centers worldwide for WalMart.

• Created Global Approach SCM team, utilizing onsite / offshore resources to

combine team for cross training and supporting all projects as one ongoing

SCM team.

• Managed / supervised the conversion from Clear Case to Subversion for

IDC.

Jeppesen

Software Configuration Manager

February 2008 - September 2009 (1 year 8 months)

Greater Denver Area

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Oversaw policies and procedures following DO-178B and Commercial and

Military Aviation Technical Services (CMA) standards set forth by Jeppesen,

Boeing, and the Federal Aviation Administration.

• Administrated Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Subversion, and

Trac repositories tools.

• Facilitated Change Control Boards (CCB), following CMA standards.

• Developed and maintained Data Retention processes for all CMA projects

software versions; detailed build server information and storage locations for

all artifacts, including source, documentation, and releases.

Additional Experience

Configuration Manager

February 1993 - December 2008 (15 years 11 months)

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

PULTE MORTGAGE, Denver CO, Senior Configuration Manager

EL PASO COUNTY, Colorado Springs CO, Senior Configuration Manager

MCI WORLDCOM, Colorado Springs CO, Configuration Manager

Education

Colorado Tech, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Coursework in Computer Science, General Studies

Bearded Eagle

Certified Scrum Master

Computer Learning Center, San Francisco, CA

Data Processing and Operations Certification (with Honors), Management

Information Systems and Services

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