PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior Architect, Manager, instructor, and coach with over sixteen years of real - world leadership skills, well-organized approach, and excellent communication.
• Strong understanding and a wide range of experience with SDLC automation tools including installation, configuration, customization and implementation for large-scale, global project teams.
• Solid experience in coaching and managing project team members, business teams, and analysts to facilitate and implement Devops solutions, including on Cloud from ground up, with a variety of hybrid tools and solutions leading to Saasification of applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Process and Methodologies: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Agile Development, Scrum, Rational Unified Process (RUP)

(SEI/CMM): Confidential Jazz tool suite Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Requirements Composer; Rational Publishing engine;RRDI;UDeploy,Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, CQTM, OSLC, Build Forge, RequisitePro, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, AppScan 5.x, Telelogic Synergy, DOORS, Merant PVCS, TFS, SCCS, MS-Visual SourceSafe, Git,Jira, Subversion, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet,Cruise Control, CruiseControl.NET, Hudson, Maven, Rational Test Manager.

Languages and D Confidential bases: C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, Perl, Jakarta Ant scripts, Maven, Shell scripting, XML, HTML, PL/SQL, Oracle 8i, 9x, 10g; Hadoop, Informix, Sybase, MySQL Operating Systems and Application Servers: UNIX, Windows, SunSolaris, Linux OS, EC2 Cloud, BEA WebLogic, Confidential WebSphere, JBoss, Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

DevOps/ALM Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implement DevOps architecture, for BCBS, which includes end to end implementation of ALM, using Rational RTC, RRC tools with Jenkins as a CIE tool.
• Own and Migrate 300 odd applications with a team of 4 resources both onsite and offshore, from Serena Dimensions to Rational RTC.
• Help Retire Serena by adopting Subversion as a secondary storage reporsitory, which in turn got integrated with Rational RTC.
• Completely re-design and refactor builds for each application, including technologies like Message broker, Siebel, Batch jobs release automation for ControlM, Pega, Siebel, Message Broker, .NET etc.
• Help maintain parallel branches/streams for current IT applications moving from standard architecture to Enterprise wide SOA architecture, including sharing of code startegies, apart from using effective branching/labeling/baeline methodologies.
• Architect and design automation of builds and deployments to Dev, QA and productions environments using Rational Jazz Build engine, integrated with Jenkins and U Deploy.
• Coach and train applications in the new tools and processes
• Migrate applications from traditional waterfall processes to Agile/SCRUM based processes.
• The whole environment is setup on AWS EC2, and on windows and Linux operating systems, during which, an extensive validation work has been done, when moving from traditional Confidential AIX boxes to Linux and windows.

Confidential, North Carolina

DevOps/SCM Architect

Responsibilities:

• Migrate over 100 enterprise level applications from PVCS Serena dimensions to Confidential Rational RTC/Subversion. This involved redesigning/re-arcitect the build systems, using Ant/Maven/Nexus/Jenkins.
• Integrate Siebel with Confidential Rational RTC for developers to check in and check out code from Siebel IDE, which was presented as a white paper in Rational User conference by Confidential in June of 2014.
• Integrated Message broker tools with Confidential Rational RTC and Jenkins to achieve CIE environment.
• Saas-ification of applications, and implementing the overall environment on Amazon Cloud.
• Train/Mentor over 150 users in the new SCM environment.

Confidential

SCM Build Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implement Cloud Infra from ground up on Amazon EC2 to implement complete end to end ALM SCM solutions for Hyatt.com, which includes complete re-factorization of core application build and deploy process including packaging of binaries.
• Migrate assigned projects into RTC using uniquely defined templates. Help set up build architecture for OMS software (retail software created by Confidential ) using open source tools like Jenkins, Maven/Nexus, Ant in Linux environments.
• Install and configure RRDi with CLM 4.x for Accnture reporting purposes.
• Coordinates and architects builds around RTC, GitHub, Subversion for various Lines of Business, refactoring builds along the way. Developed multi-code, line merge strategies within RTC and GitHub.
• Mentor and coach teams being migrated into new build farm along with assisting them with ALM tools use.
• Set up and train offshore team in the build architecture which was created and set up, to be handed over to (as a service) to the client.

Confidential

SCM Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing SCM architecture over WAN, to enable global application development between Milwaukee, Istanbul and Hongkong, eventually extending it To L Confidential M.
• Installed and implemented Jira for G12 project. Integrated Subversion with Jira. Implemented Subversion/Jira based SCM systems for globally distributed Oracle applications development with core development team in Hong Kong and Istanbul.
• Designed branching methodology and implemented automated and procedural processes for both Subversion and Jira. Implemented automated build and release process using Hudson/CruiseControl for development, UAT, and production environments using Apache Ant and Shell Scripts. (OS is a hybrid environment using Linux/Unix and Windows.)

Confidential

SCM Architect

Responsibilities:

• Deployed the Confidential Jazz tools: Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Requirements Composer for Confidential 's global, large-scale customers in United States, Germany, India, and Philippines.
• Routine enablement tasks included demonstrating the benefits and features to clients' managers, communicating the adoption path / transition roadmap from Rational tools (ClearCase, ClearQuest, RequisitePro) to the new Confidential Jazz tools (RTC, RRC, RQM).
• Assisted wide range of project types (Agile, Waterfall, Iterative, Scrum) in their adoption of tool automation best practices and techniques that are correctly sized to their needs. Clients included large deployments (2,000+ licenses) at WellPoint (RTC and other Jazz tools), Coach Bags (RTC and Build Forge), and internally at Confidential (RTC - all versions).
• Performed instructional design and taught end user (including documentation) for project teams adopting Jazz and Rational tools. Assisted with definition and implementation of extensive RTC customizations, hosting platforms architecture, and templates.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Confidential as a partner to create and deploy migration strategies for Visteon to move from Confidential Rational tools to open source approach.
• Presented migration strategies to wide range of managers and senior personnel to successfully move from Rational ClearCase to Subversion, (project included 800GB of d Confidential spread out between 800 VOBs setup in UK, Japan, China and India).
• Presented migration strategies to move from Rational ClearQuest to Confidential team forge and proven approach to carry over all Rational ClearQuest customizations.
• Created ALM process design by studying clients’ current ALM process and identifying Visteon’s current pain points. Conducted enablement workshops in Chennai, India for 400 developers in enabling team members in the architecture and best practices.

Confidential

Senior Architect

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated current SCM systems. Evaluated and implemented SCM tools to move from VSS to Open source or Commercial SCM tools. Designed / architected SCM implementation for Distributed development between San Francisco, Nashville and Illinois.
• Implemented Subversion, ClearCase and CM Synergy for evaluation purposes, which is to move a production code baseline into each of these tools and present pros and cons of each tools for different features requested by client.
• Implemented Continuous integration environment using cruise control. Revamped Apache Ant scripts for builds and deployment for WebLogic app servers.
• Documented and recommended SCM processes. Implemented builds using Apache Ant scripts for maven based java development. Recommend standard Change Management processes and tools and enabled teams in best practices approaches for their environments.