RITA C. ROBINSON
email - rita@ritacrobinson.com
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
IT professional with over ten plus years experience in dealing with fast-paced companies. Expertise includes more than 12 years of Configuration Management (CM) in Administrative Services/Deployment Services/Release Coordination and Software Development on projects, great analytical decision making skills with excellent problem-solving skills. Recognized for ability to implement rapid transitions and ability to create processes to help increase productivity while following industry standards of best practices. Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification with the Project Management Institute (PMI) and Certificate in Project Management Certification with NJIT. More than 7 years operating under Software Engineering Institute (SEI) CMMI Maturity Level 5 practices.
EXPERIENCE:
CDI Corporation, Dallas, TX 10/2009 - Present
ClearCase Administrator / Configuration Manager (contract)
· Provides ClearCase design, implementation, administration and consulting for various projects, Configuration Management, and Release Coordination
· Works in Windows and UNIX environments, tracking work products through development lifecycles utilizing ClearCase and other Rational tools
· Develops and communicates ClearCase Configuration Management best practices sessions
· Performs and directs configuration control, release, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits while reviewing completed work for accuracy and assuring that time schedules are met
· Provides ClearCase functional and technical training to team members and customer with Configuration Management (CM) processes and Configuration Management tools
Configuration Management Information Technology (CM IT) Services LLC, Beverly, NJ Oct 2007 -present
ClearCase Administrator / Configuration Manager (Contract)
· Provides ClearCase design, implementation, administration and consulting for various projects, as well as IT Project management, Configuration Management, and Release Coordination
· Works in Windows and UNIX environments, tracking work products through development lifecycles utilizing ClearCase and other Rational tools
· Develops and communicates ClearCase Configuration Management best practices sessions
· Performs and directs configuration identification, configuration control, release, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits while reviewing completed work for accuracy and assuring that time schedules are met
· Provides ClearCase functional and technical training to team members and customer with Configuration Management (CM) processes and Configuration Management tools
· Projects focused on applications for website sales, promotion, setup, and deployment specifically in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and other web marketing techniques
· Serves as instructor for PMI in Quality and Integration knowledge areas
Reserve Consulting, Hopewell, NJ
Senior Configuration Management Consultant (Contract) May 2007 - Oct 2007
· Provided ClearCase design, implementation, and administration for various projects, supporting 7 Divisions/Groups, up to 300 developers, up to 250 applications - including validated and regulated applications
· Developed and communicated ClearCase Configuration Management best practices sessions
· Provided ClearCase functional and technical training to team members and customer with Configuration Management (CM) processes and Configuration Management tools
· Worked in Windows and UNIX environments, tracking work products through development lifecycles utilizing ClearCase and other Rational tools
· Performed and directed configuration identification, configuration control, release, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits while reviewing completed work for accuracy and assuring that time schedules are met
· Performed risk management; planning and estimating
· Performed source code migration and production support release coordination
· Facilitated Change Control Team and Configuration Management Working Groups
· Helped maintain the flow and quality of work to meet deadlines
· Monitored work status and made adjustments to expedite production
· Conducted training of all project team members to assure proficiency in Configuration Management, development processes and administrative activities
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) , Princeton, NJ Feb 2000 - May 2007
Project Task Manager
·Manages/performs the following tasks: ClearCase administration; identifies and contributes to risk management; develops and communicates best practices sessions; source code migration; release coordination of Software Library Commercial Databases; functional and technical training to both team members as well as to the customer with Configuration Management (CM) processes and CM tools; facilitates a Change Control Team meeting with the customer including minutes and agenda, helps facilitates ClearCase Working Group (CCWG)
·Performs and directs configuration identification, configuration control, release, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits.
·Provides input for planning and estimating CM activities.
Senior CM Analyst III - Senior Configuration Management Specialist/Lead
Rational University Training on ClearCase on NT: Fundamentals, MultiSite, Rational UCM
ClearCase Administrator - Exporting/Importing development code from different source repositories, making labels, branches, writing triggers, and completing builds, performing server and client installs on both UNIX and NT. Setup of Netscape and Apache Web Servers
Release Coordinator - Responsibilities include coordination of new software releases, sending notification to QA, users, client liaisons, scheduling deployment time and date, updating documentation, and close out phase of deployments
ClearCase Instructor - Instructs project teams to use the IBM Rational ClearCase software. Developed ClearCase best practice presentations around the work environment in topics such as integrations and builds on both NT and UNIX
Change Control Team (CCT) Facilitator - Responsible for facilitating Change Control meetings to get approval of change request tickets, tasks includes writing agenda and minutes, release table, updating tickets with approval information and postings meeting documents to documentum
Computer Sciences Corporation, Moorestown, NJ Feb 1998 - Feb 2000
Member of Technical Staff - CM
Rational University Training on ClearCase in Unix: Fundamentals, MetaData, Administration
Rational ClearCase and Rational APEX
DOD clearance
SW Delivery Coordinator
POC for Tide, SWP2, and SWP3, Responsible for builds and making sure deliverables are made in a timely manner; Duties include writing scripts and writing makefiles for the desired projects
License Admin
Secured, maintained, and tracked license keys for JCALS; Communicated with Vendors for license information to incorporate better ways to obtain license information; Enhanced Access Data Base as a tracking tool - incorporated Site Server information table and other tables; Regularly compared PO files to CM site configurations to assure grounds for licensing
Lockheed Martin Services Inc., Cherry Hill, NJ 1996 - 1998
Associate Software Analyst
DOD clearance
AEGIS Excellence Award for work on Theater Ballistic Missile Defense System (TBMD)
Software Coder and Configuration Management Administrator on ASSETS and TIP, TBMD, and LSTP.
Incorporated code changes and kept track of all changes made to software, prepared for and completed builds of new software packages using such utilities as dump, tar and scripting
Release Coordinator/Systems Administrator for ASSETS test systems in the following locations: PTC I, PTC II, CSEDS, Ship Builds, familiarity with TOBAR and ORTS; duties included backing up and restoring software changes and loading and changing OS; set up passwords, groups, permissions, net groups; rebuilding kernel; documenting processes and writing code to requirements; trouble shooting and implementing problems with the servers
Ported from SUN OS to SUN Solaris both testing environment and OS by converting and debugging code and OS for compatibility
Worked in X-Windows environment to implement new test environments
Made scripts to do different tasks such as send email out after updates were done to CM tracking tools, locate and change lines of files; set paths and OS environments
Volunteer: Angel Food Ministry, Young Entrepreneur! Ministry, Hospitality Ministry, Abundant Harvest Catering, Abundant Harvest Technology, BBC Business Ministry, BBC Media Ministry - WebAdmin and Bookstore Clerk
EDUCATION:
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ - MS in Engineering Management May 2005
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Camden, NJ - BA in Computer Science May 1996
CERTIFICATIONS:
New Jersey Institute of Technology - Graduate Certificate in Project Management May 2003
Burlington County College, Pemberton, NJ - CISCO CCNA parts 1 & 2 Spring 2006
PMI - Project Management Professional since October 2006
MEMBERSHIP: Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2004
OTHER RELEVANT TECHNICAL SKILLS
9 YEARS - ClearCase Administration
9 YEARS - Designing and Implementing ClearCase Solutions
11 YEARS - Supporting DOD Standards / Military Environments
11 YEARS - Extensive use of Rational Tools
2 YEARS - ClearQuest
15 YEARS - Configuration Management
15 YEARS - UNIX
15 YEARS - Windows
9 YEARS - Multi-site ClearCase Administration
9 YEARS - ClearCase User Training/Mentoring
10 YEARS - Advocating Configuration Management Best Practices
15 YEARS - Tracking Work Products Through Lifecycles
8 YEARS - CMMi Level 5