Kathy Cowley

Effectively serving as a subject matter expert who owned the release management process, including automated deployments, monitoring & alerting within agile delivery cycles, in cloud and on-premises model. My team worked closely with the Product, Delivery, and Architecture teams to ensure test environment standards were maintained and met, create upfront end-to-end release schedules based on multiple project requirements and across multiple partner’s, with full clarity on cross-dependencies.

Providing release & test environment management & support for core banking. In addition full review and approval of all releases into production. Regular member for Change Advisory Board. Project/Delivery Manager for the corporate cash management system (iBanking) used by high profile corporate clients. Took over the delivery of an at-risk and behind schedule project. Devised a remedial project plan and managed it to successful completion.

Identify and resolve dependencies within the Release/configuration plan across Environments Capacity planning and setup of deployment activities for internal customer Releases Providing management oversight of the release process Set delivery expectations with stakeholders, ensure user acceptance tests are completed and all defects addressed Test management - Environment management ITIL processes Release and change governance

Release manager for the whole of IT who effectively managed the end-to-end planning, delivery and deployment into production of the all-banking system changes in hybrid delivery model Responsible for the System integration team and lead the way in introducing the bank to service automation and virtualization for environments.

Rational UCM, ClearCase base support cross teams *UK, US and India* Rational UCM upgrade version 6 / 7.1 Rational UCM Implementation AGILE PROJECT Training for Rally Rally Integration ClearQuest schema changes

Rational UCM Implementation Project planning – AGILE PROJECT Analyse customer’s problems and needs related to change and configuration management Create change and configuration management policies and procedures Defect tracking and change Set-up of CCRC / Eclipse remotely with Build Forge over 60 users Introduction of tool integration from Requirement to test (ReqPro – Quality Centre / service centre)

Configuration Manager Software Configuration Management Processes and Procedures Configuration of Testing Environment - Quality Centre Support the configuration management environment. Deployment Processes Managing Project baselines for deployments

Providing Release and Environment Management consultancy Identify and resolve dependencies within the Release plan and across Environments Capacity planning and setup of deployment activities for internal customer Releases Identify risk and issues when tracking changes to the Environments Help Development team create Release notes or deploying new builds

Developing and implementing standardised methods, practices, and supporting the Rational Suite of tools for configuration management. The provision of on-going configuration management services, as required by various development teams. Administer and support the configuration management environme

Change and Configuration management process definition and enforcement with Rational ClearQuest and Rational ClearCase Creation of Triggers for Development VOB’s Responsible for writing and maintaining the Configuration Management Plan Worked with HP’s Radia tool to control Patch Management Cont

Responsible for Rational development tools support over multiple environments consisting of ClearCase, ClearCase MultiSite & ClearQuest. Ongoing project support for Cap Gemini clients; which included the government’s child trust fund account. Upgrades for existing Rational tool set including Clear

Installation and customization of the rational suite Set-up of the Requisite Pro environment and administration Integration between ClearQuest and Test director ClearCase UCM configuration and change management tool Creation, maintenance of VOBs, Views, Triggers and Release Areas. Maintenance

Installation of Rational Tools Responsible for the identification, recording, and reporting of IT components, including their versions, constituent components and relationships. ClearCase server set-up. Development and Maintenance of Baseline, Release, Build, Branching and Synchronization Polici

Configuration, Optimisation and Maintenance of VOB, View, Registry and License Servers. Development and Maintenance of the ClearCase/MultiSite Environment. Development and Maintenance of Baseline, Release, Build, Branching and Synchronisation Policies. Creation and Maintenance of VOBs, Views, T

Installation configuration and maintenance of VOB, View, Registry and License Servers. Development and maintenance of the ClearCase development environment. Migration from CVS to ClearCase 4.2 Installation and configuration of TotalNET advanced server and Samba Installation and configuration of

Implementation and configuration of view and VOB servers Provide training to peer and user groups Maintaining the Build environment Developing triggers, Perl scripting Controlling changes to baseline Provide SCM documentation Migration from to CVS to ClearCase Installation and configuration

Implementation and configuration of View and VOB servers General Support calls Troubleshoot using Multisite tools Setting up VOBs, Views and Config specs Provide NT server and Oracle support Developing triggers, Perl scripts and build automation Provision of change control for the platform bas

Responsible for maintaining ClearCase, developing and communicating branching Implementation and configuration of View and VOB servers Policies, setting up VOBS, Views, and Config specs. Maintain the build environment within ClearCase. Controlling changes to the platform baselines. Build and

Implemented ClearCase/ClearQuest and Requisite Pro Build and Release engineer SCM (Software configuration management) practitioner CMM (Capability maturity model) ClearCase UCM configuration and change management tool Maintain the Software Library System (developmental configurations and baseli