Rob Carlson

About Rob Carlson

Experienced IT Professional with strong track record of success coupled with high accountability/ownership and ability to drive results.Highlights:* 20+ years IT experience working as individual contributor and manager across Development, Quality Assurance, Release Management and Agile Product Ownership areas.* Currently leading an agile squad focused on API Management* In previous position, managed diverse onshore/offshore development team with expanding responsibilities across multiple high visibility applications in Commercial Banking* Experience managing vendor applications/platforms including RedHat OpenShift, Google Apigee, Clear2Pay (FIS), SAP Business Objects, SAP Financial Fusion and IBM Sterling.* Led numerous successful product and major infrastructure upgrades, including a multi-year migration of customers from legacy payment platforms to new platform. Migration included ETL of entitlements, payment templates & history, limits and approval workflow.* Banking and Health Care industry domain knowledge.* Experience leading development projects from initial estimation to final Production deploy and post Production support* Strong supporter of close collaboration between Development, Operations and Support to enable proactive monitoring and quick issue resolution.* Experience working with infrastructure: IBM HTTP Server(IHS), NGINX, WebSphere, WPS, IBM MQ, UNIX/Linux/Windows, DB2 UDB/MF, SQL Server, Oracle, F5, NAS.* Development languages/tools include: Java.NET, Perl, KSH, SQL, QTP, Silk, LoadRunner, SOATest, JMeter, Sitescope* Prior experience working as Release and Change Manager.* Prior experience managing load/performance and web service testing team.* Consistent high achiever.

Experience

1. Advanced Software Engineering Manager

   Kroger Technology & Digital

   Jul 2021 — Present · Cincinnati, OH, US

Education

• Northern Kentucky University

  BS, Comp Sci

  1992 — 1996

• University of Cincinnati

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Chemical Engineering

  1987 — 1992

Skills

• Microsoft Sql Server
• Sdlc
• Unix
• Program Management
• Software Development
• Release Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Six Sigma
• Management
• Business Analysis
• Software Project Management
• Process Improvement
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Quality Assurance
• Test Automation
• Project Management
• Business Process
• Testing
• Soa
• Change Management
• Visio
• Enterprise Software
• Disaster Recovery