1. Ronald E. Curry
Software Configuration Manager SME
Professional Summary:
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.
Skills:
Software Configuration Management, Software Development Life Cycle Process, Project Management,
Change Management, Distributed Platforms including, Windows, multiple flavors of Unix, HP, AIX, Visual
BuildPro Build and Make including GNU Make Process Mgmt, Dimensions and TeamTrack, ChangeMan
DS, CCHarvest, Visual Studio, HP Quality Center, SharePoint.
Professional Experience:
Lowe’s, Mooresville, NC 12/2011 – Present
Software Configuration Manager SME
SCM Manager SME assigned to develop Strategy and Roadmap for Best Practices in the Software
Configuration Management environment within the Lowe’s IT Enterprise.
Develop Strategic IT Enterprise Plan for establishing standard Software Configuration
Management Processes across multiple application environments within the Lowe’s IT
Enterprise. Assessed the current Lowe’s IT Infrastructure and provided recommendations based
on Industry Standard Best Practices to stabilize the existing software development process and
control the software development lifecycle from the Requirements and Design Phases through
the Deployment and Testing Implementation Phases. Established controlled gateways for
Release Management across the multiple Testing areas with Environments Management
deployment driven review guidelines. Recommended improvements across enterprise SCM
Software Development Life Cycle from Requirements and Design phases through Release
Management for both Testing Deployments and subsequent Production Run-Time
Builds/Deployments based on industry standard best practices. These improvements included
configuration item identification, source control methodologies, testing environments
configuration, and software deployments.
UST-Global, Chattanooga, TN 09/2010 – 12/2011
Software Configuration Manager SME
SCM Manager SME working to establish and lead the Center of Excellence in the development and
implementation of Best Practices for the Software Configuration Management environment within the
Growth Platform IT Enterprise at UNUM.
Process improvements across enterprise SCM Software Development Life Cycle from
Requirements and Design phases through Release Management for both Testing Deployments
and subsequent Production Run-Time Builds/Deployments based on industry standard best
practices. These improvements included configuration item identification, source control
methodologies, testing environments configuration, application builds and deployments in support
of standing up a functional CMDB, status accounting and post implementation audit
requirements.
2. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance, Washington, DC, 8/2007 – 8/2010
Senior Engineer/Software Configuration and Change Management SME
CareFirst Model Office project
I 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 for both Distributed and Mainframe Platforms.
SCM Manager/Lead SME, SDLC Process Management Guidelines for Distributed Platforms
including Windows and HP UNIX environments. Serena Dimension support for Applications
Products and SDLC Approval/Gateway Processing
Managed configuration build execution, release and deployment Infrastructure for the CareFirst
Model Office project effort.
Supported critical Configuration Management Items documentation identification and control
including Functional, Allocated and Software Product Baselines. Work in support of Oracle CMDB
requirements utilizing Dimensions CM Metadata sourcing.
Implemented and supported configuration management guidelines processes working as the
Change Management SME for Peer Reviews across various distributed platforms including
Windows and UNIX platforms.
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.
SME providing technical oversight and product software customization for the Serena Software
Dimensions Change Management tool. Provided Workflow guidance for Serena TeamTrack CRM
Process.
User Acceptance Testing and Quality Assurance Testing Process Mgmt for JAVA, Web Content,
Visual Basic, Perl, Informatica, Epiphany, and CVS based Shell Scripts/SQL Scripts with multiple
onshore and offshore Production Run-Time environments.
Completed multiple application conversions under Interwoven and Dimensions Software Product
Change Configuration Management environments.
Managed Standard ANT Build and Deployment execution for Distributed Platforms, as well as
other distributed platform component processing requirements.
Utilized Windows Build Servers for Ant Build execution and manual code migration to production
windows folders.
Provided TeamTrack Process Management support mitigation to improve SDLC tracking and
change request infrastructure and provide industry standard SDLC process control audit ability.
Missouri Gas Energy, Kansas City, MO, 5/2007 - 7/2007
Senior Engineer, Software Change Management SME
Software change management subject matter expert on the Serena ChangeMan ZMF Software Product.
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.
Reconfigured, tested and upgraded Serena Change Man ZMF 5.5.3 Software Configuration
Management environment. Change Management SME.
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.
Configured TeamTrack and ChangeMan ZMF process management interface to improve SDLC
infrastructure process control audit ability.
3. Mutual Trust Insurance, Oakbrook, IL 2/2007 - 4/2007
Senior Engineer, Software Change Management SME.
My duties were in the role of the software change management subject matter expert on the Serena
Dimensions and ChangeMan ZMF Software Product.
Change Management SME for Dimensions and ChangeMan ZMF source repository toolset.
Coordinated effort to convert existing Windows and UNIX based Application from CVS and VSS
distributed platform source code version tools.
Project managed and engineered software customizations for SDLC Configuration Management
environment supporting Java, .Net ASP, Visual Studio for critical path financial applications.
Sarbanes Oxley process requirements management and process improvement
recommendations.
Worked in support of Workflow requirements for TeamTrack CRM process management interface
to improve SDLC infrastructure process control audit ability.
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.
Utilized Windows Build Servers for Build execution and deployment Utilizing Apache Ant across
QA and UAT Testing platforms as well as release managed builds into production run-time
environments.
US Department of Agriculture National Finance Center, New Orleans, LA 4/2006 – 1/2007
Senior Engineer, Software Configuration and Change Management SME
US Government Agency
My role was the software change management engineer subject matter expert on the Serena
ChangeMan ZMF and ChangeMan DS Software Products.
Change Management SME. Technical resource for ChangeMan DS and ChangeMan ZMF
Application Configuration requirements.
Project managed and engineered software customizations for SDLC Configuration Management
environment supporting CMDB, Visual Basic, Java, Informatica, Shell Scripts, SQL Scripts,
VSAM, DB2 and IDMS Cobol and Assembler Source Code infrastructures with multiple testing
and production regions, including DB2 Package and Plan Bind processing.
Customized, tested and upgraded Serena Change Man ZMF 5.5.3 Software Configuration
Management environment.
Customized and tested ChangeMan DS Application Configurations across both windows and
UNIX Platforms in ODBC connectivity to Oracle Table spaces for Metadata Management.
2/2005 – 12/2005 - Morgan Stanley, New York, NY
Senior Engineer, Software Configuration and Change Management SME
My duties included the role of software change management subject matter expert on the Serena
Dimensions and ChangeMan ZMF Products.
Change Management SME for both Distributed and Mainframe Platforms.
Project managed and engineered software customizations for SDLC Configuration Management
environment using Serena Dimensions product in support of large distributed platform
infrastructure with multiple testing and production runtime areas including .Net ASP, VB and Java
Applets
Project managed and engineered software customizations for SDLC Configuration Management
environment using Serena ChangeMan AMF product in support of mainframe platform
infrastructure with multiple testing and production regions including CICS, Batch, VSAM, DB2,
MQ Series and Remote Procedure Calls.
Standard Build and Make Execution for Code Deployments across multiple distributed testing
areas including QA and UAT and release managed production run time environments.
4. Compass Bank Birmingham, AL, 1/2003 - 12/2004
Vice President Data Security Administration & Technology Change Management
I managed multiple cost centers including strategic planning and development. Senior staff
management as well as full time employee profile development). Change Management SME.
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.
Sarbanes Oxley process remediation experience for critical financial systems and applications
across the IT Enterprise.
Serena Software Inc. Burlingame, CA, 2/1999 - 1/2003
Principal Consultant Serena Software Inc.
Change Management SME.
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.
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.
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.
First American National Bank Nashville, TN, 10/1993 - 1/1999
Senior VP Software Change Control and Software Configuration Management
Provided management leadership for both Change Management and User Identification
Information Technology departments across the IT Enterprise. Change Management SME.
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.
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.
Full Time Employee modeling and forecasting with cost center user profile management
experience.
Software Product procurement and ROI management.
Software Change Release Management across multiple critical applications, operation systems
and platforms utilizing the Serena ChangeMan ZMF and ChangeMan DS (now Dimensions)
Products as the subject matter expert of this software package.
Sytrends Consulting, La Vergne, TN, 9/1992 – Present
Senior Technical Consultant
Develop IT Enterprise wide Configuration Management Needs Assessments for Patient Information
Management environment.
Reviewed existing Distributed Platform Data Management Infrastructure and provided
recommendations based on industry standard best practices guidelines.
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.
Provide HIPPA and Sarbanes Oxley Process Management Consulting Services expertise for
effectively managing change components in a CMMI Leveled IT environment by establishing
5. specific and repeatable means for tracking software development changes throughout the SDLC
to production implementation.
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.
Corp to Corp strategic relationship development and IT Infrastructure Process Management,
Change Management SME.
Technical Professional Staffing,
Independent IT Environment Configuration Needs Assessments and 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.
AT&T Technologies Denver, CO, 9/1980 - 8/1993
Systems Designer – Assistant Manager of Operations
Production Support for Systems and Application Development areas.
Assistant Manager Media Operations in a Labor Relations environment for Print and Tape areas.
Developed and maintained operations environment performance reporting.
Conducted software product research and piloting as well as software procurement and
enterprise licensing agreements.
Third party MVS/XA and windows Software installation and configured full life cycle deployments.
Established Process Management Planning criteria and implemented process controls to meet
the established requirements.
