Ronald E. Curry has over 30 years of experience in software configuration management, project management, and process management. He has extensive expertise with Serena ChangeMan and implementing software configuration management best practices across various platforms and industries. Currently, he works as a senior technical consultant providing expertise in configuration management, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and process improvement.

1. Ronald E. Curry<br />Software Configuration Manager SME<br />Professional Summary:<br />Software Configuration Manager SME providing strong technical and process management expertise driven by industry standard best practices for software configuration management across the Software Development Life Cycle in support of enterprise wide IT objectives.<br />Skills:<br />Software Configuration Management, Software Development Life Cycle Process, Project Management, Change Management, MVS/z OS, Windows, JCL, Procedures, DB2 Binds, MVS Compile and Linkage Editor, MVS Production Support, Serena ChangeMan ZMF SME, Dimensions and TeamTrack, Process Management, HP Quality Center, SharePoint, VSS, VSAM, IDMS, ISPF Dialog Management, TSO/ISPF.<br />Education: <br />Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Nashville TN – MCSE Certification 2000<br />AT&T Engineering Research Center, Hopewell, NJ - IT Corporate Technical Training 1985<br />Alcorn State University Lorman, MS - BS Criminal Science 1981<br />Professional Experience:<br />Sytrends Consulting, La Vergne, TN, 2010 – Present<br />Senior Technical Consultant<br />Developed IT Enterprise wide Configuration Management Needs Assessments for Patient Information Management environment.<br />Reviewed existing Data Management Infrastructure and provided recommendations based on industry standard best practices guidelines.<br />Provide gap analysis reporting in support of software and hardware upgrade recommendations to improve current processes for managing patient information per HIPPA requirements for Software Configuration Management implementation.<br />Provide Sarbanes Oxley Process Management Consulting Services expertise for effectively managing change components in a CMMI Leveled IT environment by establishing specific and repeatable means for tracking software development changes throughout the SDLC to production implementation.<br />Assisting in the development of a cohesive change process from requirements gathering to software design, coding, testing, approval and deployment into the various production run time environments. <br />CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance, Washington, DC, 8/2007 – 8/2010<br />Senior Engineer/Software Configuration and Change Management SME<br />CareFirst Model Office project <br />Established IT Enterprise wide Configuration Management Plans including deployment implementation strategies per industry standard best practices concepts for Configuration Management processes spanning the Software Development Life Cycle. <br />Managed configuration build execution, release and deployment Infrastructure for the CareFirst Model Office project effort.<br />Supported critical Configuration Management Items documentation identification and control including Functional, Allocated and Software Product Baselines.<br />Implemented and supported configuration management guidelines processes for Peer Reviews across various distributed platforms including Windows and mainframe/Z OS platforms.<br />Provided status accounting of CMDB related Configuration Items (CI's) including Technical, Ownership and Relationship attributes for ITIL in multiple testing and production run-time environments.<br />SME in providing technical oversight and product software customization for the Serena Software Change Management tool, ChangeMan zOS. <br />Also provided some user support for the Serena Dimensions environment in supporting approval processing for Integrated Systems Testing,<br />User Acceptance Testing and Quality Assurance Testing for JAVA, Web Content, Visual Basic, Perl, Informatica, Epiphany, CVS, VSAM, DB2, MQSeries and Batch/CICS applications infrastructure with multiple Production Run Time environments.<br />Completed multiple application conversions under Serena Change Man ZMF including a product upgrade from version 551 to 563, Interwoven and Dimensions Software Product Change Configuration Management environments. <br />Maintained Standard LE370 COBOL and Assembler Compiles and Linkage Editors, ANT Build and Deployment execution for Distributed Platforms, BMS Map Source creation, Easytrieve Interpreted and compiled components, MQSeries Stored Procedures and DB2 Languages support as well as other mainframe and distributed platform component processing requirements.<br />Utilized Windows Build Servers for Ant Build execution and manual code migration to production windows folders.<br />Provided TeamTrack Process Management support mitigation to improve SDLC tracking and change request infrastructure and provide industry standard SDLC process control audit ability.<br /> <br />Missouri Gas Energy, Kansas City, MO, 5/2007 - 7/2007<br />Senior Engineer, Software Change Management SME <br />Software change management subject matter expert on the Serena ChangeMan ZMF Software Product. <br />Project managed and engineered software customizations for SDLC Configuration Management environment supporting Batch/Online VSAM and DB2 infrastructure with multiple testing and production regions, including both Package and Plan Binds processing.<br />Reconfigured, tested and upgraded Serena Change Man ZMF 5.5.3 Software Configuration Management environment.<br />Standard Compile and Link Edit/Build and Make support for Assembler, BMS Maps, LE370 COBOL Languages and other mainframe programming languages including JCL, Procedures, and Program Parameters, Control Members and other non-source systems and applications related components.<br />Configured TeamTrack and ChangeMan ZMF process management interface to improve SDLC infrastructure process control audit ability. <br /> <br />Mutual Trust Insurance, Oakbrook, IL2/2007 - 4/2007<br />Senior Engineer, Software Change Management SME. <br />My duties were in the role of the software change management subject matter expert on the Serena ChangeMan ZMF Software Product. <br />Project managed and engineered software customizations for SDLC Configuration Management environment supporting VSAM, DB2 and IDMS infrastructure with multiple testing and production regions, including both Package and Plan Binds processing.<br />Reconfigured, tested and upgraded Serena Change Man ZMF 5.5.3 Software Configuration Management environment. Standard Compile and Link Edit/Build and Make support for Assembler, BMS Maps, LE370 COBOL Languages and other mainframe programming languages including JCL, Procedures, and Program Parameters, Control Members and other non-source systems and applications related components.<br />Configured TeamTrack and ChangeMan ZMF process management interface to improve SDLC infrastructure process control audit ability. <br />US Department of Agriculture National Finance Center, New Orleans, LA 4/2006 – 1/2007<br />Senior Engineer, Software Configuration and Change Management SME<br />US Government Agency<br />My role was the software change management engineer subject matter expert on the Serena ChangeMan ZMF Software Product.<br />Project managed and engineered software customizations for SDLC Configuration Management environment supporting CMDB, VSAM, DB2 and IDMS infrastructure with multiple testing and production regions, including DB2 Package and Plan Bind processing.<br />Customized, tested and upgraded Serena Change Man ZMF 5.5.3 Software Configuration Management environment.<br />Standard Compile and Link Edit/Build and Make support for Assemblerapgens, LE370 COBOL Languages and other mainframe programming languages including JCL, Procedures, and Program Parameters, Control Members and other non-source systems and applications related components. Configured TeamTrack and ChangeMan ZMF process management interface to improve SDLC infrastructure process control audit ability. <br />2/2005 – 12/2005 - Morgan Stanley, New York, NY<br />Senior Engineer, Software Configuration and Change Management SME <br />My duties included the role of software change management subject matter expert on the Serena ChangeMan Product. <br />Project managed and engineered software customizations for SDLC Configuration Management environment using Serena ChangeMan product in support of large scale DB2 and CICS infrastructure with multiple testing and production regions, including both DB2 Package and Plan Binds processing.<br />Configured Automated CICS newcopy functions, CSP and standard in-house applications conversions.<br />Standard Compile and Link Edit support for AssemblerMS Map generation, LE370 COBOL, Ezytrieve and other mainframe programming languages as well as non-source components including JCL, Procs, Program Compile and Link Edit Parameters, Stored Procedures and Control Members. <br />Compass Bank Birmingham, AL, 1/2003 - 12/2004<br />Vice President Data Security Administration & Technology Change Management <br />I managed multiple cost centers including strategic planning and development. Senior staff management as well as full time employee profile development).<br />IT Security User Profile provisioning across Legacy and multiple Distributed Open Systems Platforms including, Novell e-Directory, Microsoft Active Directory, HP, AIX, Sun Solaris and SCO UNIX environments, AS400 and Tandem. Serena ChangeMan Software and IT Asset Management for SDLC Software Configuration Management and Network Configuration Management Hardware Assets.<br />Sarbanes Oxley process remediation experience for critical financial systems and applications across the IT Enterprise. <br />Serena Software Inc. Burlingame, CA, 2/1999 - 1/2003<br />Principal Consultant Serena Software Inc. <br />Installed and customized ChangeMan ZMF and ChangeMan DS software development change management tools in various client environments across, insurance, public utilities, banking and financial management industries. Lead and participated in diverse IT Infrastructure projects across multiple platforms in software and network configuration management implementations.<br />Established Mainframe and Client Server Software Configuration Management Best Practices criterion for SDLC and CMDB. Implemented core strategic planning initiatives for managing software and hardware assets across the IT Enterprise.<br />Managed hands on change request and change management tools implementations across multiple Mainframe and Client Server Platforms in establishing Software Configuration Management requirements to support Software Development Lifecycle Processes.<br />First American National Bank Nashville, TN, 10/1993 - 1/1999<br />Senior VP Software Change Control and Software Configuration Management<br />Provided management leadership for both Change Management and User Identification Information Technology departments across the IT Enterprise.<br />Developed and supported Software Configuration Management Infrastructure, Applications Development SDLC Processes and associated with both Legacy Mainframe and Distributed Platforms including Microsoft and UNIX environments.<br />Developed and implemented IT strategic and budgetary planning guidelines across multiple departments to provide tools and FTE resources in support of change and identification management environments.<br />Full Time Employee modeling and forecasting with cost center user profile management experience.<br />Software Product procurement and ROI management. <br />Software Change Release Management across multiple critical applications, operation systems and platforms utilizing the Serena ChangeMan Product as the subject matter expert of this software package. <br />Sytrends La Vergne, TN, 2/1990 - Present<br />President/ CEO Sytrends <br />Corp to Corp strategic relationship Development and IT Infrastructure Process Management, Technical Professional Staffing, performed independent IT Environment Assessments, Business Process Management assistance in meeting Sarbanes Oxley and Graham Leach Bailey Legislative Guidelines Compliance for managing critical financial business applications in addition to other Federally Mandated Process Management requirements in meeting internal auditing compliance criteria. <br />AT&T Technologies Denver, CO, 9/1980 - 8/1993<br />Systems Designer – Assistant Manager of Operations <br />Production Support for Systems and Application Development areas. <br />Assistant Manager Media Operations in a Labor Relations environment for Print and Tape areas.<br />Developed and maintained operations environment performance reporting. <br />Conducted software product research and piloting as well as software procurement and enterprise licensing agreements.<br />Third party MVS/XA and windows Software installation and configured full life cycle deployments.<br />Established Process Management Planning criteria and implemented process controls to meet the established requirements.<br />