Eva Platten, PMP®, CSM, CSP, ITIL
Cell: 650-743-7539 / E-mail: yesplatten@yahoo.com
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Eva Platten, PMP®, CSM, CSP, ITIL
Cell: 650-743-7539 / E-mail: yesplatten@yahoo.com
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eva-platten-pmp-csm-csp/6/21/a28
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Experienced Release/Program Manager with over 20 years experience in all phases of the software development life cycle with recent experience in IBM enterprise application integration products. Core strengths in:
- Agile development methods
- Object-Oriented Design & Programming
- Cross-Function Communication across geographies
- I18n / L10n / G11n & Unicode
SKILL SUMMARY
Project Management: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum (Expert)
Software Development: Globalization, Lifecycle, Product Accessibility, Testing, Legal Clearance (Expert)
Software Productivity tools: Rational Team Concert, Microsoft Office/Word, Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Project, Lotus Notes, Rational Rose, Source version control systems (Expert)
Hardware: Personal computers, VAX, Sun workstations, RS/6000 (Working Knowledge)
Operating Systems: Windows/XP, UNIX/AIX/Linux (Expert)
VM, CMS, MS-DOS, OS/2, VMS (Working Knowledge)
Methodologies: SOA, J2EE, Procedural, Object-Oriented Technologies (Expert)
Client/Server, CORBA (Working Knowledge)
Databases: Oracle, DB2, Access (Working Knowledge)
Software Languages: Java, Smalltalk, C++, C, Pascal, (Expert)
FORTRAN, Basic, SQL, XML, HTML (Working Knowledge)
Domain Expertise: Semiconductor, Banking, Metals, Automotive (Working Knowledge)
Spoken Languages: English, German (Expert)
French, Spanish, Chinese (Working Knowledge)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cisco, San Jose, CA 2012 - present
ERMO Release Manager
- Lead the planning and delivery of CITS quarterly releases
- Work with business, IT and change management teams, including program/project managers, business integration QA, transition, and performance teams, to ensure timely and successful release deliverables
- Collaborate with leaders from other business units to ensure that resource commitments, dependencies, risks and issues are communicated and actively managed
- Facilitate regular status meetings and provide release status to management
Stryker Endoscopy, San Jose, CA 2010 - 2012
EBS Release Manager
- Worked with the IT management team, Business Users, Business Analysts, Database, Quality and Infrastructure and Development teams to develop requirements for project s and enhancements.
- Rolled out a new monthly release process, where content, timelines and resources were clearly defined
- Presentations to the management team on performance and quality metrics
- Worked with Business Analysts to compile a comprehensive set of regression test cases
IBM Corporation, Foster City, CA / Boca Raton, FL 1997 - 2010
Project Release Manager and Scrum Master, 2008 - 2010
- WebSphere Process Server product. URL: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/wps/
- Worked with the Stakeholders to develop the roadmap for the release
- Worked with the Architects and Scrum Leads to develop the requirements and user stories in the Product Backlog
- As Scrum Master, facilitated meetings (commitments, daily scrums, demonstrations, iteration reviews and retrospectives) and removed impediments.
Program Manager, Scrum Master and Globalization Lead, 2006 – 2008
- WebSphere Adapters product. URL: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/wbiadapters/
- Delivered 3 major software releases and simultaneous quarterly maintenance releases within schedule, meeting all legal compliance, product accessibility and quality requirements.
- Managed the globalization of Java messages, documentation and artwork which included translation to 14 languages and enablement for bi-directional and double-byte languages.
- Key player in promoting agile tools and processes across geographically distributed teams. This included organizing rollouts and regular education /assessment sessions.
- Worked with the Architects and Scrum Leads to develop the requirements and user stories in the Product Backlog
- As Scrum Master, facilitated meetings (commitments, daily scrums, demonstrations, iteration reviews and retrospectives) and removed impediments.
- Facilitated Scrum of Scrum meetings for 10 teams
- Organized education sessions for new development processes and tools
- Mentored and coached colleagues to work on their presentation skills
Team Lead, 1997 – 2006
- Lead for 3 WebSphere Adapter products (Adapter for Microsoft Exchange, Adapter for CORBA and Adapter for COM), responsible for the maintenance, scope, design, implementation and documentation of several releases delivered on schedule and with quality.
- Lead for automated test harnesses and business automation systems based on the WebSphere family of products; patent filed
- Presented best practices for writing functional and high-level specifications, driving multiple development teams to deliver on schedule and with quality, leading the test team during functional, integration and system test, and developing an object-oriented client/server solution for the automotive industry.
- Prototyped B2B solutions allowing single sign-on using LDAP and PAM.
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany 1993 – 1997
Senior Software Engineer
- Network configuration management team.
- Migrated programs and data from a mainframe to a distributed AIX and OS/2 client/server environment.
- Supervised development team, migration strategy design and implementation, database design, user interface design, ORACLE database maintenance, report design and generation using SQL, and user training/support.
EDUCATION
Master Degree, Computer Sciences, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
Bachelor Degrees, Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Certified Scrum Master and Scrum Practitioner, Scrum Alliance, San Mateo, CA
Certified PMP, PMI, San Jose, CA
Certified ITIL V3 Foundation, San Jose, CA
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