John Patton

How would you describe your time at Bank of America?

Managed New York region release team and coordinated and oversaw release teams across geographic boundaries. Ensured team was familiar with audit and compliance as it relates to universal banks. Duties included mentoring, problem resolution and coaching of all regional team members to encourage adoption of the accepted change and release management disciplines. Defined criteria for on-boarding of new development teams into our software development life-cycle framework.
Created and enforced regulatory policy controls as it is applied to configuration management in a universal bank environment. Created common practices and standards in the areas of configuration management, systems development life cycle, and security & controls. Defined service levels and maintained or improved levels where possible.
Participated in development of automation and reporting for version control systems, which includes using ACL???s, all version control operations, IDE integration and defect tracking systems integration. Participated in creating and managing security access models at the appropriate levels necessary to support the regulatory environment of a universal bank. Integrated version control systems into a larger lifecycle framework that includes configuration management, build management, release management, service management and reporting. Involved in creating build/release tools and processes. Automating functions such as testing, builds, monitoring processes, and configuration management. Worked with build tools such as Makefiles, Ant, and Maven. improved knowledge in open source systems, continuous integration and agile methodologies. This included tools such as Cruise Control, Bugzilla, Anthill Pro, CVSNT Suite.
Subject matter expert and single point of contact for all version control issues. Overall strong technical role, with a solid understanding of how infrastructure tools and processes support the application environment, and ultimately, the business. Release planning, preparation, scheduling, packaging, software configuration management - implementation and deployment of applications & systems. Change control, application builds, version control, and release of distributed applications across distributed international platforms....