Responsibilities

• Communicate – to executives & individual contributors – release status, release readiness, metrics, phase review outcomes, actions, risks, status versus milestones
• Lead / Facilitate - focused topic and x-functional status meetings.  Ensure team member accountability to actions.  Ensure appropriate change control.  Conduct post-mortems.
• Own Process - use and promote the established Product Lifecycle Process, & constantly consider its improvement.  Institute change when appropriate. 
• Plan / Organize – via creating and maintaining MS Project schedules -- Define Tasks, Utilize Work Breakdown Structures, set Predecessors/Successors, Set Baseline(s)
• Manage Risk – via risk assessments & mitigation planning, escalating when appropriate
• Coach – work with engineering, test, product management, support, and marketing to develop, release, and manage a complete product that respects our support and sales team and delivers exceptional customer value
• Be the voice of the customer – deliver great products
• Coordinate, support, and execute various release programs from initiation through completion
• Release schedule and milestone definition, execution, tracking, and delivery
• Work with the Development organizations to coordinate, plan, and monitor release programs
• Identify and resolve release program level conflicts
• Identify, collect, and monitor metrics to measure release program success
• Continuously assess and improve key aspects of the release lifecycle to creatively address complex problems
• Perform program analysis, manage risk, influence necessary course corrections, and communicate program status and activities across multiple levels of management.
• Ensure release or program documentation is current, complete, and located in the proper repository.