PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of experience as a SCM, Configuration Engineering, and Build/Release Engineering for automating, building, releasing, configuring changes, and deploying applications in Dev/QA/Prod environments ensuring repeatability, stability, and security.
• Managed and supported development, QA, staging, and production environments.
• Strong experience in coordinating and networking with multiple teams to successfully build and deploy critical applications.
• Experience working with version control systems like Git, Subversion (SVN), and P4V.
• Managed merging, branch creation and tagging.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies Waterfall, and Agile.
• Deployed applications WebSphere, Web Logic, Apache Tomcat, and JBOSS.
• Created and owned, Build and Continuous Integration environment with Ant, Maven, and Jenkins.
• Extensively worked on Hudson, Jenkins and Build Forge for continuous integration and for End - to-End automation for all build and deployments
• Hands on experience in Software Configuration Management principles and best practices.
• Effectively communicating in written, virtual, and face to face with various levels of peers, leaders, or upper management in building/deploying, and release software
• Hands on experience working with configuration management tools like Ansible.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Configuration Tools: Ansible, Chef, Puppet

Version Control: Git, Subversion (SVN), CVS, Perforce

Source Control Management Tools: Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Tortoise SVN

CI Tools: Jenkins, IBM Build Forge

Build Tools: Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Gradle

Tracking Tools: Jira, Service Now, Confluence

Cloud Platforms: Azure, Amazon Web Services

Monitoring Tools: Splunk, Kibana

Collaboration Tools: Confluence, Slack

SDLC: Agile, Waterfall

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows

Scripting: Shell, Python, Perl

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Build and Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Build applications utilizing standard build tools such as Jenkins.
• Managed applications deployment using tools such as Verdad, Artifactory, and Ansible.
• Managed application configurations in Weblogic.
• Resolved build issues for development team
• Validate configurations on servers as per migration document Troubleshoot OS, applications and Networking while leveraging internal teams for solutions.
• Perform patching and other administrative activities on Linux and Windows servers
• Participate in troubleshooting sessions for J2EE Application stack and associated supporting infrastructure

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL

Build Engineer/Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed source control systems in Git (Gitlab), and managed branches and merges and worked work collaboratively with development
• Implemented a CI/CD pipeline involving Gitlab, Jenkins for complete automation from commit to deployment.
• Communicated effectively in written, virtual, and face to face with various levels of peers, leaders, or upper management.
• Presented changes to teh Change Advisory Board (CAB).
• Developed deployment plans and implemented changes in production within teh release window with minimal impact to teh business.
• Deployed code in development environments using Serena Dimension tool
• Implemented SonarQube as part of build pipeline to run code quality check and control deployment
• Create different release and development branches on SCM for developers and actively coordinated with development team to handle merge conflicts

Confidential, Homewood, IL

PTC Locomotive Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Improved teh process of commissioning new locomotives for PTC project. Reduced teh time of teh process from 2-3 days to few hours.
• Coordinated teh installation of PTC equipment on locomotives with Mechanical Department
• Created and presented changes requests to teh Release Management Committee (RMC) meeting
• Created release and deployment plans to deploy software to new PTC locomotives installation
• Used Ansible tower and scripts to deploy software to locomotives systems in Linux
• Maintained inventory of active locomotives and their equipment and software.
• Used Kibana/Elasticsearch to track locomotives software updates
• Used Atlassian Confluence to share content.

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

Build Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed teh CI/CD using shell scripts and Maven in Linux
• Managed source code branching between Head and release branches in CVS repository
• Build teh application using shell scripts in Unix with Maven
• Maintained teh daily build process
• Deployed code in development environments using Serena Dimension tool

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Software Configuration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed and maintained teh Development environment and teh DevOps tools in Windows environment
• Administered and maintained source code repositories, config repos using Subversion (SVN) and TFS source code repositories
• Managed SVN repositories for branching, merging, and tagging
• Managed teh CI/CD tools with Jenkins and Cruise Control, Maven, Ant, and NANT
• Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement teh CI process and integrated teh tool with Ant and Maven to schedule teh builds
• Implemented Software Configuration Management policies and best practices

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Configuration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage and improve existing build, test and integration processes and environments
• Setup CI/CD to build and deploy Java applications using IBM Build Forge in Linux
• Utilized SCM tools to manage configuration, build software, manage version control system, and coordinated production releases
• Create, document, and implement procedures related to builds and deployments
• Used Jira to track issues and defects

Confidential, Calabasas, CA

Configuration Management Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed and improved existing build, test and integration processes and environments
• Continually improved build, release and installation process by integrating additional automation systems
• Managed all pre-release and release-delivery activities
• Created, documented, and implemented procedures related to builds and deployments
• Created release Packages and worked with QA and infrastructure teams to build applications and promote code to test and production environments.
• Built and deployed Java and C++ applications

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created and developed detailed Production Implementation plan.
• Coordinated teh release efforts with teh project manager, development, deployment, production support, System administrators, and Database administrators.
• Led and coordinated teh Deployment Command Center on teh deployment night. Coordinated teh execution of teh deployment plan and resolved any release issues
• Conducted mock deployments.

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Deployment Coordinator/SCM Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated teh bimonthly release of teh AT&T Managed Care's applications deployment, and insured teh integrity of teh software products and full compliant.
• Developed detailed Production Implementation plan.
• Coordinated with Business, Development, Quality Assurance, Deployment, and Support teams to execute teh Production deployment plan.
• Managed teh command center, during teh deployment to monitor and control teh process
• Managed emergency deployment.
• Managed teh software source code using ChangeMan DS versioning tools.
• Promoted code from development environments to testing and production environments.
• Conducted SCM verifications and audits in deployed code and applications