Sr Release Manager, Software Engineering - Dell - Remote
(2024-11)
- Owned and managed enterprise release calendar, partnering with Product, Engineering, QA, Business, and Operations to coordinate schedules.
- Established release milestones, readiness checkpoints, and critical path activities across all workstreams and teams.
- Identified dependencies, risks, resource constraints, and delivery impacts ensuring stakeholders understand scope and timing.
- Facilitated release planning sessions and go/no-go readiness meetings, tracking progress against committed delivery timelines.
- Collaborated with cross function units for readiness activities ensuring development, testing, UAT, and production criteria are met.
- Coordinated stage and production deployments and post-release validation, actively identifying and managing release issues, risks, blockers.
- Partnered with Business to assess operational impacts, coordinating UAT signoff, training, and adoption communications.
- Provided clear release status updates on scope, timing, risks, and readiness to stakeholders and executives.
- Maintained release processes, standards, and Jira reporting accuracy, driving continuous improvement through post-release lessons learned.
Release Manager, Software Engineering - Finastra - Lake Mary, FL
(2020-01 - 2024-10)
- Planned, managed release schedules, balancing business demands with development capacity and delivered releases across different products maintaining 98% adherence to project timeliness.
- Worked as the central point of contact among developers, QA, DevOps, Product Management and business stakeholders.
- Supported change creation, collaborated with CAB, identified, assessed and mitigated risks, facilitated release readiness reviews and go/no-go meetings to proactively eliminate hindrances prior to deployments.
- Coordinated deployment activities across development, testing, stage, production environments using CI/CD, monitored system health post release and supported incident response and resolution.
- Provided release status updates to management and stakeholders, published release notes.
- Facilitated retrospective meetings to review and action the good, bad, ugly from the past releases, promoted automation and standardization resulting in process improvements.
- Developed a set of templates and procedures enhancing organizational consistency and compliance.
Manager, Software Engineering - D+H - Lake Mary, FL
(2011-06 - 2019-12)
- Led, mentored and grew a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning in Agile environment.
- Drove hiring decisions including interviewing, evaluating, and onboarding engineering talent aligned with team needs.
- Provided technical oversight and guidance on architecture, code quality, and engineering standards across the team.
- Participated in Agile development processes including facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Communicated project status, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences including senior leadership
Senior Software Engineer - Harland Financial Solutions - Lake Mary, FL
(2002-01 - 2011-05)
- Developed core modules of Phoenix Banking Application using C++/C# and .NET, powering transaction processing, account management, and compliance workflows for enterprise banking clients.
- Designed and implemented RESTful APIs for Phoenix, enabling secure integration with core banking systems, third-party payment processors, and internal microservices, streamlining cross-platform interoperability.
- Led technical design discussions and code reviews across the Phoenix engineering team, mentoring junior developers for best practices and API design standards.
- Worked directly with business stakeholders to translate banking product requirements into scalable Phoenix features, reducing time-to-market for new functionality.
