KULDEEP KOTHARI

• Available Immediate to start any contract/perm opportunity.
• Ready to relocate across Australia.
• Australian Permanent Resident with 6+ years of experience in Release , Change and Test Environment management.
• Overall 15+ Years of IT experience across design, development, release until Go- Live and warranty support across agile and waterfall models.
• TransportNSW, Business banking. APRA and Telecom Domain expertise
• Managed Digital Transformation wide releases
• Agile SAFe 4.5 Certified.
• Strong stakeholder management experience across IT, Business, Vendors, Infra, DevOps and third party integration teams
• ITIL expert , CICD DevOps approach for enterprise scaled release and Environment Management

• Govern Change and Release Management Policy.
• Liaise between business stakeholders regarding Change and Release Management issues.
• Enforce change control and release management standards and procedures.
• Effectively Conduct the Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings.
• Enforce strong change management process governance and failed change reduction for ensuring a stable and secured IT infrastructure with increased availability of technology systems and services.
• Leading Environment and Release DevOps engineers' team of Team size 10.
• Release Manager for Bank of Queensland Digital transformation journey with lot of API and integration gateway deployments.
• Implementation Manager, Release governance for Business Banking domain at Westpac working across Business lending APRA complaint projects and enterprise releases.
• Developing an iterative Implementation plan and run sheet and business walkthroughs
• Managing vendor deployments and DevOps strategies in test environments.
• Change management (Review and Approvals), Run the CAB, sending change status reports, approve changes from Service Operation managers and CAB teams.
• Co-ordination across a range dependency to balance release planning with program priorities.
• Co-ordination standard expedited and warranty releases and overall Go Live- readiness
• Supporting recovery of Production and/or implementation issues.
• Facilitating collaborations between IT, business, Infra and vendors for Enterprise Releases.
• Leveraging business acumen and technical knowledge to influence outcomes and deliver value for a release.
• Demonstrated ability and experience with releasing across multiple streams of work
• Ability to influence & negotiate via a variety of strategies, to build strong stakeholder buy-in.
• Understand technology principles and tools to effectively release and co-ordinate dealing with complex system interdependencies.
• Knowledge and experience with cross-system integration testing.
• Manage end to end releases across multiple interdependent systems. Highlight risks and mitigations.
• Identify, capture and communicates delivery and environmental risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions to the Project Manager and in project registers.
• Team Management
• Maintain the focus on customer satisfaction and outcomes and maximize flow.
• Problem solving and analytical proactive mindset.
• Effective team player and mentor.
• Support the team to communicate technical and quality priorities to the product owner(s) to ensure sufficient investment in the delivery capability.
• Manage risks and escalations.
• Strong stakeholder management across business, IT, infra, external Vendor, ops teams.
• Adhering to Lead time SLA's

TransportNSW Apps and Infra Security Team:

• Release lead for and involved in scheduling, governing , planning and status reporting of application and Infra patching releases . Review of release notes from DevOps engineers.

Digital transformation and API integration Project @ BankofQueensland :

• DevOps Environment and Release manager for BankofQueensland during their digital transformation of core retail banking platform, integration API gateways, third party apps and collation of Virgin Money and ME bank releases processes.

Westpac APRA Business lending and Institutional Banking:

• Environment manager managing test and UAT environments for their business lending credit risk rating application. Key responsibilities were environment bookings, health checks and reporting and overall mentoring of release engineers.
• Release manager for managing their interdependent, cross platform complex enterprise releases. preparing release runbooks, implementation plans, cutover plan, rollback plan, release readiness checklists, securing all test and security approvals and signoffs, hosting CAB meetings , Go No GO meetings, arranging business and technical verifications , release retrospective meetings and post implementation reviews.

NBNCo Sydney:

• Business readiness lead and Service transition lead for NBNCo managing their monthly IT and Network Release artefacts , documentations to ensure smoother handover to business and operations.

Sunrise Telecom Switzerland

• Telecom CRM Lead for Sunrise Telecom Zurich to gather requirements from customer and manage E2E delivery from offshore delivery teams.

Excelcom Jakarta:

• Worked as UAT Lead for Excelcom Jakarta coordinating UAT executions and business testing and defect triage.

British telecom UK

• L2/L3 Lead, Incident and Problem Manager

Best BUY US:

•Microsoftware .NET developer for Best BUY US ( Retail chain) client.

• Frog Award by Westpac for APRA CPL release
• Customer Appreciation awards at Sunrise Telecom