Jeff Hall

About Jeff Hall

Seasoned leader and Certified Software Quality Assurance Engineer, delivering…

Experience

1. Release Manager

   Young Living

   Sep 2018 — Present

   Understand feature development and release processes from planning through post-launch - Manage releases based on efficiency, integrations, and compatibility - Set release management lifecycles according to internal business goals and ongoing development realities - Research, create, and adhere to internal release development guidelines and processes to mitigate liabilities and align with business goals - Coordinate releases and updates - Be central knowledge point for all deployments (software, infrastructure, etc.)- Recruit subject matter experts to tackle unforeseen development obstacles hindering deployments - Create presentations and infographics for platform release communications - Accountable for developing process improvements and training of standard release processes - Identify areas of risk/conflict within and across multiple releases and work with project teams to mitigate issues Improvements- Increased deployment frequency from 2-3 deployments per week to 5-6 per day - Reduced deployment failure rate from 48% to 6% Focus- Actively moving to Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) model

Education

• Brigham Young University

  Bachelor's degree, Communication, General

Skills

• Test Automation
• Software Development
• Dedication to Work
• Management
• Visual Studio
• Teaching
• People Skills
• Problem Solving
• Team Leadership
• Test Cases
• Employee Engagement
• Continuous Improvement
• Customer Service
• Team Building
• Communication
• Consulting
• Process Improvement
• Sql
• Testing
• Software Quality Assurance
• Leadership
• Quality Assurance
• Training
• Software Documentation
• Agile Methodologies
• Test Planning