SUMMARY

• Experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Integration, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Release management, DEVOPS, Product management, SQL, and Requirements Analysis. Strong information technology professional graduated from Confidential.
• Around 17 Years of experience in DevOps, Release Management, Configuration Management, Product management and Business Analysis.
• Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, maintaining and improving infrastructure, split between physical data centers and AWS and managing full AWS lifecycle, provisioning, automation and security.
• Automated deployments for cloud servers using Python. Managed AWS, Jenkins, and Chef accounts effectively to control access to resources and increase security. Maintained build profiles in Team Foundation Server and Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline.
• Extensively worked on AWS Cloud platform in building hybrid model and automating the existing process to support both cloud and on premises workloads.
• Accomplished complete migration and Active - Active set up on both Cloud and on-premise structures.
• Worked with team to build Code pipeline to PROD.
• Creating release strategy for large integration programs involving multiple lines of business.
• Working closely with executive leadership and executing given tasks accordingly.
• Drive the Sprint planning and ensure that the stories committed are delivered
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and Collaborating with stakeholders
• CERTIFIED by Capital One and VISA internally in Release process and AGILE SCRUM methodology.
• Trained scrum Teams via brown bag sessions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ALM tools: Apache Subversion (SVN), GIT, Rational ClearCase/ ClearQuest, SQL Projects, Oracle Toad Extensions

Management: Onsite/offshore model, PM Methodologies, Recruitment, Scheduling and Ownership, Heat absorption, Coaching and Mentoring

Project Management/ Integration tools: SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), MS SharePoint Server, MS Project Server 2010, Report Builder

Test tools: HP Quality Center (QC) 10, VMware Lab Manager 4, Telerik WebUI, JUnit 2.4, VS Unit Testing, Coded UI and Load Testing automation

Build tools: CODE BUILD,MSBuild, Jenkins, AntHillPro, Cruise Control, Maven

Web Servers: Apache HTTPD, Apache Tomcat, IBM HIS

Installation and Deployment tools: AWS services (RDS, Dynamo DB, S3, EC2, EKS, EBS, RDS, Cloud formation, Route 53 ), AWS code star, code deploy, Kubernetes, Docker

Programming: C, C++, java, SQL/PSM

Scripting: JavaScript, XML, HTML, Perl, bash, Python

Databases: Oracle, DB2,Microsoft Access 2010, MySQL 5.0

Development Tools: Eclipse 3.5,.Net

Other Packages / Tools: VMware vSphere/ Workstation, MS Project/ Visio/ Office.

AWS - DevOps: Kubernetes, Terraform

CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Ansible, Chef/Puppet and Docker.

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2/ 2008, Windows 7, Windows Phone 7.5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, AIX 6.1, MS DOS, iOS, Android

Methodologies and Analysis Skills: SDLC, Agile Methodologies, ITIL v3 Transition, SOX 404 Controls, 508 Compliance, Continuous Integration, UML, Software Licensing, Change Management Principles, Software Requirements Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked on App Store Sales and Services.
• Managing release calendar by planning, scheduling and executing releases based on priority.
• conducting release readiness review for all the registered releases and scheduling them after all the sign off’ s from the concerned stakeholders
• Planned and orchestrated end-to-end processes
• Coordinated scheduled releases and updates.
• Streamlined and enhanced the release process for software, infrastructure changes and organized patching on a regular basis.

Confidential, Bellevue WA

Release Manager/Devops Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked for Payment authorization and merchant acquiring.
• Worked on CI/CD and managing DevOps team.
• Managing release calendar by planning, scheduling and executing releases based on priority.
• conducting release readiness review for all the registered releases and scheduling them after all the sign off’ s from the concerned stakeholders
• Planned and orchestrated end-to-end processes
• Coordinated scheduled releases and updates.
• Streamlined and enhanced the release process for software, infrastructure changes and organized patching on a regular basis.
• Communicating and publishing the status on a regular basis to stakeholders and executive leadership.

Confidential - Vienna, VA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather Business Requirements from the Business Product owner.
• Create Mockup of the UI as per requirement
• Write user stories in Version One
• Groom stories with the team
• Drive the Sprint planning and ensure that the stories committed are delivered
• Work closely with the team dependencies
• Work with Restful SOAP and API teams to ensure the source to target data requirements match.
• Submit the stories for every AGILE Sprint and deliver the tasks based on the given sprint timelines.
• Conduct Sprint Demos to Product owner to show the sprint tasks completed as per requirements.
• Work closely with QA and ensure that the test cases and scenarios pass.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Technical Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Created user stories.
• Worked with business stakeholders and written technical specifications to all the requirements.
• Grooming user stories to all the team members
• Driving end - end process of delivering PSI epics

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the production releases Coordinating with Dev, QA and the rest of the teams involved in the project
• Conduct daily status calls and update the higher authorities
• Deploying RPM to QA console.
• Making the Night production deployments by creating implementation plans and updating the concerned parties about the result of the release
• Worked on the services for all the Portals.
• Coordination from the PM /APM regards the time schedule of the changes
• Involved in the audit compliance of all the changes
• Informing the change management regarding the changes on a daily basis

Confidential- Princeton, NJ

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively on writing the Business requirements and making the user requirement documentation.
• Acted as a liaison between stakeholders: system users, clients and managers, who have a business problem to gather requirements.
• Conducting meetings/interviews and JAD sessions with stakeholders to collect business requirements.
• Managing, linking, tracing and analyzing requirements.
• Used MS Visio to make use case models, activity diagrams, class diagrams, depicting whole business workflows in these diagrams.

Confidential – Princeton, NJ

Sr. IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) / Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions for requirements gathering.
• Interviewed SME (Subject Matter Experts) with detailed questions and carefully documented the requirements in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both Business and Technical teams.
• Involved in the formulation of the Business Requirements Document (BRD).
• ·Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business process, business rules and information needs to ensures that critical requirements were not missed.
• Documented and delivered Functional Specification Document to the project team.
• Documented Use cases and developed Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Performed the validation of use cases to address the need of the business.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with team leads to gather requirements about functionalities need to be added/updated/enhanced
• Worked extensively in order to understand application and web based UI
• Prepared Functional Requirement Specifications based on questionnaire and JAD Sessions
• Followed traditional Waterfall Approach for web-system upgrade
• Created Process Diagrams and Data Flow Diagrams using MS Visio
• Participated in Risk Mitigation Process to identify critical areas of risk and accordingly modified the process to reduce the same