CognizantChange And Release Manager
Nov. 2019 - Mar. 2022Tampa, Florida, United StatesRelease Manager:
• Organized pre-release meeting to communicate deployment nuance; created pre-release document to outline key deployment details, stored documents in Microsoft Sharepoint for audit and team/community reference purposes
• Collaborated with Architects and leadership to create deployment standards such as the consolidation branch procedure and documentation, hotfix deployment procedure and documentation, and twice-weekly deployment schedule
• Developed governance strategy to reduce orphaned YML files which removed gigabytes of data from the deployment payload, improving automated build and deployment performance
• Participation in Daily Scrum with Sr. Architects and Monthly Technical Forums with Platform Team and Stakeholders on behalf of Release Team as subject matter expert on deployment process and procedure, providing feedback to inquiries and presentations to highlight any new developments that impact deployment standards.
• Assist architecture team in diagnosis of server issues; cross-referencing stack traces with code base to find root cause of known issues and alerting corresponding project teams for break-fix when necessary
• Using Sitecore 9 CMS, Unicorn, Visual Studio 2017, and Azure DevOps, to solve for client’s deployment needs, including but not limited to Automated Build and Deployment Execution and Administration, creation of Dynamic Packages, Update Packages, Anti-Packages, and for Sitecore Item Publishing.
• Using Workday and JIRA to coordinate with other teams, record assignment progress and impediments, and report on tasks performed