diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ada308c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# This GitHub action can publish assets for release when a tag is created.
+# Currently, it's setup to run on any tag that matches the pattern "v*" (ie. v0.1.0).
+
+name: release
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - 'v*'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2.4.0
+
+    - name: Set up Apache Maven Central
+      uses: actions/setup-java@v1
+      with: # running setup-java again overwrites the settings.xml
+        java-version: 1.8
+        server-id: ossrh # Value of the distributionManagement/repository/id field of the pom.xml
+        server-username: MAVEN_USERNAME 
+        server-password: MAVEN_PASSWORD 
+        gpg-private-key:  ${{ secrets.PUBLISH_SIGNING_KEY }} # Value of the GPG private key to import
+        gpg-passphrase: GPG_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSPHRASE
+
+    - name: Run tests
+      run: make test    
+      shell: bash
+
+    - name: Build and Publish package
+      run: make deploy
+      shell: bash
+      env:
+        MAVEN_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.PUBLISH_USERNAME }}
+        MAVEN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PUBLISH_PASSWORD }}
+        GPG_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSPHRASE: ${{ secrets.PUBLISH_SIGNING_KEY_PASSPHRASE }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/verify.yml b/.github/workflows/verify.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9a3b708
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/verify.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+name: verify
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ '*' ]
+  push:
+    branches: [ master ]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2.4.0
+
+    - name: Set up JDK 1.8
+      uses: actions/setup-java@v1
+      with:
+        java-version: 1.8
+
+    - name: Run test
+      run: make test
+      shell: bash
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.md b/MAINTAINERS.md
index 5a896d0..e136cb0 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS.md
+++ b/MAINTAINERS.md
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ To release to Sonatype, make a `settings.xml` in `~/.m2` https://maven.apache.or
 The following information must be provided:
 
 * SONATYPE_USERNAME - oss.sonatype.org login for io.vinyldns
-* SONATYPE_USERNAME - oss.sonatype.org password for io.vinyldns
+* SONATYPE_PASSWORD - oss.sonatype.org password for io.vinyldns
 * GITHUB_USERNAME - Github username that your fork is published to
 * KEY_PASSPHRASE - passphrase for key F6D171DC24C6EB30FCAC1E85AEF7D1D58E3C1B9A
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e38dd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+SHELL=bash
+
+# Check that the required version of make is being used
+REQ_MAKE_VER:=3.82
+ifneq ($(REQ_MAKE_VER),$(firstword $(sort $(MAKE_VERSION) $(REQ_MAKE_VER))))
+   $(error The version of MAKE $(REQ_MAKE_VER) or higher is required; you are running $(MAKE_VERSION))
+endif
+
+.ONESHELL:
+
+all: package test
+
+.PHONY: clean
+clean:
+	mvn clean --file pom.xml
+
+.PHONY: test
+test: clean
+	mvn test --file pom.xml
+
+.PHONY: package
+package: clean
+	mvn package --file pom.xml
+
+.PHONY: deploy
+deploy: package
+	mvn --batch-mode deploy --file pom.xml
+
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 59909d3..a9d1500 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,44 +5,25 @@
     <artifactId>vinyldns-java</artifactId>
     <version>0.9.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
-    <scm>
-        <connection>scm:git:ssh://git@github.com/${vinyldns-fork}/vinyldns-java.git</connection>
-        <developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://git@github.com/${vinyldns-fork}/vinyldns-java.git</developerConnection>
-        <url>http://github.com/vinyldns/vinyldns-java</url>
-    <tag>HEAD</tag>
+  <scm>
+    <connection>scm:git:git://github.com/vinyldns/vinyldns-java.git</connection>
+    <developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://github.com:vinyldns/vinyldns-java.git</developerConnection>
+    <url>http://github.com/vinyldns/vinyldns-java</url>
   </scm>
 
     <name>vinyldns-java</name>
     <description>java client for https://vinyldns.io</description>
     <url>https://vinyldns.io</url>
-    <developers>
-        <developer>
-            <id>pauljamescleary</id>
-            <name>Paul Cleary</name>
-            <email>pauljamescleary@gmail.com</email>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
-            <id>rebstar6</id>
-            <name>Rebecca Star</name>
-            <email>rebstar6@gmail.com</email>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
-            <id>nimaeskandary</id>
-            <name>Nima Eskandary</name>
-            <email>nimaesk1@gmail.com</email>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
-            <id>mitruly</id>
-            <name>Michael Ly</name>
-            <email>michaeltrulyng@gmail.com</email>
-        </developer>
-        <developer>
-            <id>britneywright</id>
-            <name>Britney Wright</name>
-            <email>blw06g@gmail.com</email>
-        </developer>
-    </developers>
 
+  <developers>
+    <developer>
+      <name>VinylDNS Maintainers</name>
+      <email>vinyldns-core@googlegroups.com</email>
+      <organization>VinylDNS</organization>
+      <organizationUrl>https://github.com/vinyldns/vinyldns-java</organizationUrl>
+    </developer>
+  </developers>
+  
     <licenses>
         <license>
             <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
@@ -327,7 +308,7 @@
                     <plugin>
                         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                         <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
-                        <version>1.5</version>
+                        <version>3.0.1</version>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
                                 <id>sign-artifacts</id>
@@ -335,6 +316,9 @@
                                 <goals>
                                     <goal>sign</goal>
                                 </goals>
+                                <configuration>
+                                <keyname>F6D171DC24C6EB30FCAC1E85AEF7D1D58E3C1B9A</keyname>
+                                </configuration>
                             </execution>
                         </executions>
                     </plugin>