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As the Configuration Manager also, accountable for managing documentation, processes, baselines, business rhythms and Program Management Plan. Responsible for updating documentation, establish controls and policies and managing versions. Other responsibilities include analyzing released engineering change data and coordinates changes with engineering, quality, support, and engineering data control activities. Ensure that customer requirements are implemented. Track warranty agreements and renewal.

As, Configuration Management Lead, was responsible for planned, developed, documented, and executed a configuration management system for all changes that affect the development baseline. Identified, organized, and controlled the SW and HW configuration changes. Responsible for all company asset to ensure that hardware was marked & tagged and recorded in the database. Updated site drawings for hardware, software configuration and was accountable for system build; backup and recovery, archiving, change management and PKI management. Also, implemented a configuration management process and tracked all changes in Team Foundation Server (TFS).

On the DIVAS program also, accountable for the digital interrogation video archiving system in an interrogation facility. Enter the metadata for the video; monitored the equipment for fault errors. Perform operation system and backup plan to support daily, weekly, and monthly incremental backups with offsite storage. Update the master schedule for the interrogation facility.

On the DCTC program also, responsible for build software artifacts for delivery to systems integration team to support release activities. Resolve build dependencies, responsible for maintenance and controlling of the configuration to identified items such as baselines, documentation, drawings, specifications, and associated documentation within an approved CM tool. Ensures configuration identification by reviewing design release documents for completeness and proper ensuring that merge requests are completed and other CM processes and policies are followed by the development team. Participates in technical teams to resolve configuration control conflicts and issues. Support in the planning, organizing, and tracking all aspects of CM including improvements to the methodology. (Laid off due to customer funding issues).

* Privately Held * 51-200 employees * Information Technology and Services industry

* Public Company * 10,001+ employees * NOC * Defense & Space industry

Supporting the management services for NMEC and maintain consistent architecture of functional and physical attributes throughout the lifecycle of IT resources. Accountable for establishing, documenting, and preserving configuration control for all NMEC sites, systems, networks, environments, infrastructure, network peripherals, and software. Also, well as maintaining configuration management baselines, managing changes to the baselines, keeping all NMEC sites and environments in sync, and working with multiple sites and contractor teams to inject configuration management into all software releases and changes to hardware and configurations within the NMEC datacenters and environments.

* Public Company * 10,001+ employees * HRS * Defense & Space industry

* Public Company * 10,001+ employees * RTN * Defense & Space industry

As the Configuration Manager, working in an Agile software development environment focusing on maintaining and enhancing build pipelines for continuous integration. As, well as accountable for coordinating and performing software, hardware, and other functions, such as managing and tracking software licenses/support, of expiration dates and costs for application projects. Responsible for validating, and tracking software and hardware for configuration items on multiple baselines across different application projects. Manage and implement procedures, to ensure there are control methods of each release application project deliverables. Track engineering Change Requests (CR) through the Configuration Control Board (CCB) to ensure that changes to the application baseline are captured and validated.

* Public Company * 10,001+ employees * LLL * Defense & Space industry

On the iSight program as the Configuration Management Specialist accountable for software development, software configuration management, change management, release management, administration and quality assurance. Facilitate communication between Engineering, Ops, Training, Test teams, and track tasks. Support field personnel with issue tracking, support documentation and deployment preparedness. Provide monthly metric reporting for management review.Software CM skills : Unix, Linux, Red Hat, Cruise/Go, Jenkins, Subversion, JIRA, CD Designer, Quickdisk, create USB drives, format USB drives, provide software in cd, dvd and USB format.

* Public Company * 10,001+ employees * Defense & Space industry

* Monitored an on-line digital processing system, and the Service Control Point (SCP) is a Fault-tolerant database system that provides call treatment information in response to a query. Dumped production file to tape and sent the tapes out to the clients. Monitored the polling data from each client’s site and dragged the data onto the shared disk. Monitored production control * using UNIX and SQL scripts. Operating Systems Experience: Microsoft, Windows 95/97, NT 4.0, UNIX, RISC6000, Sun Solaris, Sun 3000 and 4000 Server. Monitored * an on-line digital processing system. Duties included polling unprocessed data and processing the data. Monitored * the data from each Winstar switch site. Handled the production control * using UNIX and SQL scripts.

* Public Company * 10,001+ employees * RTN * Defense & Space industry

As the Configuration Manager, responsible for management a several complex web applications and platforms baselines for the infrastructure components group. Also, serve as the backup Scrum Master; on a large program team of developers. Manage the configuration of software executable to the different environments (dev, test, demo, prod).