Robert Durfey

Experience

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  Agere Systems Inc

  Aug 1989 - Nov 2005

  Technical Manager – Enterprise Application Development

  Managed software engineer team that maintained and developed UNIX Equipment Integration, Shop Floor Manufacturing Systems, Enterprise Application Integration and Product Engineering Systems software tools & applications enabling semiconductor manufacturing. Researched and implemented new state-of-the-art technologies (at that time) including: Information Bus publish and subscribe and 4GL programming environment for rapid prototyping and development.

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  Olympus Corporation of the Americas

  Feb 2006 - Mar 2010

  Manager – Regulator Affairs & Quality Assuran

  Managed test engineering group insuring medical software solutions met high quality standards for physicians and patients. Responsible for approving or rejecting product releases based on test results and adherence to requirements and safety standards. Compiled and presented quality and testing results to development teams and corporate management. Prepared, documented and executed ISO and FDA audits.

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  PPL Corporation

  Mar 2010 - Oct 2018

  IT Systems Lead Engineer

  Highly motivated and experienced IT professional in architecting, delivering and maintaining complex corporate integration infrastructures providing optimal performance, throughput, and reliability to business critical applications. Successfully architected and improved integration infrastructure platform stability and reliability aiding in reducing operating costs. Demonstrated forward looking vision to architect replacement of on-premise Software Oriented Architecture (SOA) integration technology to Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) utilizing strategic Application Programming Interface (API) Management and Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud computing technologies. Show less

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  Cognizant

  Nov 2018 - now

  Release Manager

  Manage, plan schedule and control release builds through the complete Software Development Lifecycle including:o Release Planning activities.o Release Execution/Deployment activities with Technical Team.o Coordination and maintenance of Build/Test environments with Technical Team.o Coordination of all release documentation and communications.o Planning deployment in conjunction with Change Management activities.o Coordination of Release and Deployment activities with Business, Technical and Quality organizations following Change Management processes.o Coordination of controls and status updates from Development to Production.o Coordination of changes and updates to Configuration Management Database.o Coordination of Program Level changes. Show less