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Greetings from Infosmart Systems!!! *We have an immediate requirement with our client and the details are as follows.* *Job Title: Change and Release Manager* *Location: Southlake, TX. (Dallas/Ft.Worth location near DFW Airport)* *Duration: 6+ Months* *CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL TO DALLAS AREA* *Job Description:* *POSITION SUMMARY: * The release manager will work with business stakeholders and IT leads to manage release content and scope based on business needs and priorities. Organize, manage and execute activities for releases in all environments. Accountable for leading mission-critical software projects/releases according to published release schedule. Enforce quality standards using common industry practices eg., ITIL, SDLC, Agile. Continuously improve the Release process used to integrate, verify, release, and audit. *Change and Release Manager * The release manager will work with business stakeholders and IT leads to manage release content and scope based on business needs and priorities. Organize, manage and execute activities for releases in all environments. Accountable for leading mission-critical software projects/releases according to published release schedule. Enforce quality standards using common industry practices eg., ITIL, SDLC, Agile. Continuously improve the Release process used to integrate, verify, release, and audit. *ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: * • Coordinate and execute smooth and timely production launches without interruption to critical services. • Manage & coordinate execution of the deployment plan during releases, including fielding of deployment issues, escalations and contingencies, acting as the primary POC throughout the deployment execution. • Engage and schedule functional resources in support of deployment and implementation verification & identify resources and/or scheduling conflicts with change in release scope. • Organize release review meetings for all environments, facilitating production deployments, preparing, maintaining and distributing release artifacts (e.g., checklists, release calendar), monitoring and reporting the release quality. • Determines the readiness of each release based on release criteria & drive security and compliance reviews and signoff required for the release. • Be the authoritative point of contact for releases & work directly with PMs, QA, Eng, database administrators, build engineers and other business stakeholders (both on and offshore) to coordinate and provide technical assistance throughout the release process. • Document and be watchful for friction points, cross functional interdependencies, common implementation problems, and the opportunities for improvement that they provide. • Develop/maintain productive working relationships with project sponsors, key business partners, and internal team members. • Risk management and issue/problem resolution as required. Anticipate issues and act proactively to address potential issues & escalate issues, as needed. • Support project initiation and prioritization review process. • Develop & manage detailed launch plan including roles, responsibilities and milestones. • Publishes release test metrics. • Filing of appropriate CAB requests & tracking approvals. • Regularly communicate status to Senior Management via checkpoint conference bridge/Status reports. • Champion and advance release management processes and methodologies. • Demonstrated success communicating across a variety of audiences, including executives, business staff and technologists (both up and down the organization) - internal & external clients, as needed. • Studies existing release models to evaluate effectiveness and identifies the opportunity for new release models to improve quality and time to production. *EXPERIENCE: * • 5 years experience in a software development or IT implementations environment. Management of project resources in a matrix environment. Experience managing project scope and a good understanding of general business practices. • 2 years of project of supervisory/management experience. Management of multiple concurrent projects. • Experience in communicating status, risks and issues to project team and Sr. Management. • Proficient in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Visio. • Familiarity with ITIL, Sharepoint, SDLC, Agile preferred. • Experience with build automation strategy & exposure to Subversion, Git, Quality Center and SAP Change Request Management (ChaRM) a major plus. • Experience with Ticket management Tools required. ServiceNow and JIRA experience preferred. WORKING RELATIONSHIPS: Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to an audience of individuals from all levels within the organization. Must be able to work with both business users and IT professionals. Works closely with internal departments and business users throughout the company as well as external clients. *SKILLS: * • Communication: Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills required. Communicate effectively on releases with geographically and culturally diverse team members. Listen, comprehend, and disseminate information appropriately. • Organizational: Simultaneously manage multiple releases with varying degrees of complexity including resources within a dynamic and versatile environment. Very organized and detail oriented to follow through with tasks to their completion. • Flexible, able to learn quickly in a dynamic environment. • Problem Solving: Seek out information, logically trouble-shoot and/or escalate with relevant parties for the purpose of solving issues quickly. Identify potential issues in advance and implement measures to mitigate and manage risks. Investigate and analyze issues, facilitate the identification of root causes and propose process changes for continuous improvement. Work with cross functional teams to resolve scheduling conflicts for the purposes of resource planning. Strong analytical skills needed. • Leadership/Management: Strong leadership capabilities & ability to drive issues to closure. Direct the efforts of multiple team members and manage stakeholder expectations. Navigate challenges and conflicts to ensure working towards a common goal. • Availability: Available off-hours when required. *REQUIREMENTS EDUCATION: * College Degree or equivalent work experience *Best Regards...* Rajender Reddy Infosmart Systems Inc Direct : (972) 871 9922 Tel : (972) 267 5900 Ext. 103 Facsimile : (972) 294 5430 Email : *rajen...@infosmartsys.com <rajen...@infosmartsys.com>* www.infosmartsys.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mainframe" group. 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