SUMMARY

• Self - motivated programmer, releases engineer and network administrator proficient in C#, ASP.Net MVC, Windows & Web Services, Azure services, TFS workitem management & customization, Salesforce, Installshield soft packaging and builds automation, build/release automation & management, batch powershell and vbscript, Crystal Reports, VB6, VB.net, VB for applications, and other mainstream technologies.
• Recognized for the ability to fix problems and complete tasks with minimum supervision, and ability to learn quickly and to work effectively in a team environment.
• Five years of professional experience as network administrator and software developer.
• 7 years of professional experience developing and troubleshooting software.
• Excellent work ethic, adaptability, and flexibility.
• Outstanding capability to work under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C#, ASP.NET MVC 3 & 4, DOS batch, vbscript, powershell, VB.net, VB6, VB for applications, Delphi

OS: Win7, 8 & Windows Server 2008, 2012, MSDOS, W9x, WinCE, WinXP pro & home editions, WNT, WinVista, WinServ 2008,2012, Win8, Novell 3.11-4.11 Software Visual Studio 2005, Crystal Reports, InstallShieldRDBMS SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2012, DB2

Other: VMWare, Hyper-V, Azure Services, HTML, WixXML, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, MS Office, e-commerce, Match 3, G-Code, ORCAD, 3dmax, FlashMX, vsphere cli automation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Applied software architecture tools included with VS 2010 Ultimate to improve documentation and scalability of software projects. Proposal presented to adopt these tools combined with TFS for tasks assignment.
• Created the equivalent of the org. custom work management Salesforce's objects as custom workitems definitions in TFS, and a program to sync objects and values between these two systems in real time using salesforce outbound messaging and TFS WorkItemChanged plug ins. Experience obtained in the process on web services technologies and azure service bus queues.
• Created a custom work managing drag & drop style dashboard to manage/update work objects in salesforce or workitems in TFS, skills developed in JavaScript, Ajax, asp.net MVC, html5, as well as TFS and Salesforce APIs.
• Set the build box to run the java related builds, created corresponding scripts and build definitions to schedule the java builds from TFS, as well as the packages and deployment scripts. Added flexibility to these TFS build definitions and the build scripts to create deployment packages based on parameters passed to them.

Confidential, MIAMI, FL

Releases/Builds/Installers Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Set, configured maintained and fixed the applications builds, automated the build process and designed the applications installers to fit in an automated builds environment.
• Redesigned the TFS builds to improve performance (workspaces defs, build agent tags, etc...)
• Integration of installshield with TFS
• Customized the default TFS build template to fit in a common build number for all applications and installers
• Web application installers design, development, integration and testing, including elements of IIS configuration through installers dialogs.
• Created DB driven installers for flexibility and to reduce maintenance
• Fixed and added new features to windows services applications to fit customers’ requirements
• Applied knowledge of MSMQ and asp MVC combined with Windows services to simplify and partially automate the deployments to integration, and to keep track of installers applied to the integration environment.
• Automated the preparation of deployments for production environments based on information in the database used to track deployments to integration
• Added automatic integration of WixXML merge modules to installshield installer projects for collaboration and flexibility
• Added functionality to build code & installers on demand from different source control branches.
• Automate the installers creation/deployment of SSRS reports, SQL scripts, Windows applications & services, Web applications & services,
• Integrated salesforce elements in the build process, like triggering Sandboxes upgrades through salesforce, creating builds based on salesforce’s fields, and updating build references in salesforce.
• Automate a diversity of salesforce tasks to facilitate management job
• Installers prerequisites, Custom dialogs design and creation of asp.net MVC UIs and WCF ODATA services to interact with the data driving the installers and to trigger builds and deployments events.
• Added reporting and chart analysis functionality to track deployment data (with optional chart type, timeframe, source data). Found that the distribution of deployment ranges occurrences in different timeframes follows a power law. (MVC asp.net)
• Added functionality to prepare the production deployments based on the information tracked to reduce risks of mistakes and to make dis process consistent.
• Created vsphere cli automation commands from power shell & c# for automating the provisioning of virtual machines in order to be used in the deployment process (an environment provisioning alternative to improve the continuous integration)

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Visual Basic .Net programming oriented to solve specific project needs.
• Skills developed in G-code programming, 3Dmodeling using 3dstudio max and AutoCAD.
• Basic skills developed setting up the Sherline CNC ready mini mill for custom prototyping, and using Mach3 controlling software for CNC milling.
• Skills developed in the use of Sony Vegas suite for video production and editing.
• Basic skills developed in the use of Flash MX + PHP + MySQL to build interactive Webpages prototypes
• Skills developed halping kids with special needs. Exercises therapy, medical treatment, orthopedics, speech developing, metabolic treatments, etc...
• Gained exposure to market prices and behavior. Skills developed in the use of price information and price ranges distributions in different timeframes to spot the possibility of big price movements and predict possible sizes and direction of price movements.
• Software consulting for small businesses

Confidential, NY

Computer Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Integrated all the set of Easyship products installers and upgrades in one single InstallShield InstallScript project, sharing all the same directory structure. Automated and incorporated the product releases and upgrades to the build process.
• Participated on small development team that created EasyShip, a complete shipping system which handles 80% of Confidential ’s US multimillion shipment business. EasyShip automates the entire shipping process from printing waybills to tracking shipments and printing management reports. Over 10,000 companies used EasyShip.
• Troubleshot, designed and implemented all the reports used by the EasyShip system.
• Responsible for the design and implementation of the EasyShip set of applications installers and upgrades.
• Created functions in VB.net and C# to support the developers team work.
• Created Windows forms in VB.net and C# to bridge between Easyship and Crystal Reports COM object reports to allow passing new customized parameters on runtime to the Mailing Lists report. Optimized Crystal Report files to run faster.
• Used Crystal Reports 9, Photoshop Automation, C#, Vb.net, VMWare, InstallShield 11, SQL Server 2000/2005, DB2, CVS, ANT

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Gained exposure to search engine optimization.
• Achieved working experience in the methodologies Confidential uses to rate queries-website results.
• Participated in several rating tasks including Display Block Snipped rating, Side-by-Side rating and Display Block relevance between others.
• Used Confidential ’s EWOQ rating and evaluation system