SUMMARY:

• Continue working as a Cloud and DevSecOps Subject Matter Expert (SME) to improve software development efficiency, automate, cut cost, reduce delivery time, and to give competitive edge to the client over their competitors.
• Modernize software delivery pipelines by adopting agile tool sets, creating automated delivery pipelines to include CI/CD, implement code scanners to catch security vulnerabilities and syntax errors, and by incorporating testing frameworks for catching defects during the build process.
• Version and manager Infrastructure as Code (IaC) utilizing Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or similar tools.
• Continue leading cross - functional teams comprised of Software Developers, DBAs, Testers, DevSecOps resources, Sys Admins, Network Engineers, Security and Operational Support Teams.
• Hire, Manage, Lead, Mentor Teams to support multiple projects, programs across the enterprise.
• Continue working with the Client, Stake Holders, Senior Management, and Tool Vendors.
• Assess, Architect, Design Solutions, Enhance User Experience, and improve efficiency.
• Motivate talent by tasking them with appropriate interests, build interest by challenging them with increasingly advance matching opportunities, develop confidence in taking on tasks with higher complexity, keep them captivated, interested, and absorbed to drive productivity.
• Work with discipline leads to understand their needs and to build long-term working relations.
• Steady career progression over 30yearsin IT, directly working with some of the top consulting firms while serving some of their largest clients in federal and commercial sectors (DoD, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Automotive, Aerospace, and Finance).
• Proficient in working with multiple geographically dispersed cross-functional teams, stake holders, and vendors. Proficient in gathering requirements, documentation, design, and presenting ideas.
• Proven ability to implement tools, processes, support multiple environments, and manage projects at enterprise level.
• Passionate in implementing the best practical solutions for the client. Always in-tuned in paying attention to the client needs, providing expert guidance, promptly acting upon the direction from the stake holders, and in building lasting relationships with clients, co-workers and project leads.
• SDLC - Hands-on practical experience and in-depth knowledge of SDLC gained while supporting multiple software development projects for multiple clients in various roles (QA, Software development, Technical Leadership, Solution Design and Implementation).
• SW Configuration Management(SCM) - Experienced in designing and implementing SCM Solutions. Assessing as-is environments and implementing practical solutions to meet business needs. Expert knowledge ofSource Code Control, Branching, SW Integration, Baselines, CM Audits, Change, Defect, Build, Release, and Configuration Management practices. Hands-on experience with GIT, SVN, ClearCase, ClearQuest, PVCS, Mercury, and additional SCM tools.
• Best Practices and Methodologies - Experienced in Implementing DevOps Solutions while utilizing SDLC, CMMi, ITIL, Agile, Waterfall, ISO900, SEI, and IEEE best practices.
• Databases - Thorough knowledge of relational databases, architecture, SQL, PL/SQL, schemasand hands-on experience in working with Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, and Ingress database.
• OS/Platforms-Extensive experience with all major UNIX, Linux, and Windows Platforms, including some experience with Mainframe.
• Automation tools (CI/CD/CT/Infrastructure as Code (IAC)) - Proficient in implementing automation tools (Hudson, Jenkins, UrbanCode Deploy, AWS CodeDeploy, CruiseControl, ant, Maven, Subversion (SVN), Git, make, Puppet, Chef, AWS OpsWorks, Nexus Sonatype, and Apache Archiva). Proficient in scripting Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, VB, VBA, and Unix/Linux Shells.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS: Windows, Unix, Linux/multiple distributions, Mainframe

Version Control: GIT, Subversion (SVN), CVS, ClearCase, AccuRev, Perforce, TFS, PVCSBuild & Integration make, ant, Hudson/Jenkins, Bamboo, CruiseControl, Maven, AWS/EC2/S3/IAM

JAVA OSS Repositories: Sonatype Nexus Pro, Apache Archiva, Artifactory

App/Web Servers: IIS, Apache Tomcat, Websphere, WebLogic/SOA, Oracle Hyperion/DRM

Languages & Scripting: C, C++, Java/J2EE, VB, SQL, .NET, Ant, Nant, Linux Shell (bash/ksh/csh/tcsh), Perl, Python, Unix/Linux Shell Scripting, Ruby

Defect Tracking Tools: ClearQuest, JIRA, Team Track, Remedy, Mercury

Database: Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL, postgresql

Methodologies: SDLC, RAD, Agile, Scrum, RUP, Waterfall

Best Practices: ITIL, CMMI Level 5, ISO9000, SEI, IEEE

Miscellaneous Tools: Visio, MS Office Suite, MS Project, Clarity, Business Objects, Micro Strategy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

AWS/DevOps/Infrastructure Operations Leader

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of DevSecOps resources including DevOps Engineers, Security System Engineers, Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Engineers, Sys/Linux Admins, Network Engineers, Hardware Engineers, and Infrastructure Support Personal. Hire, manage, mentor, and task them with best opportunities matching their interests.
• Provide ongoing DevSecOps/Infrastructure support for multiple teams and projects across a large E3I Program, assess and design technical solutions while supporting on-going IT operations. Improve existing infrastructure, enhance operations, and optimize software delivery by implementing modern DevSecOps solutions.
• Work with cross-discipline and cross-functional teams (Development, Test, Operations, Security, Field Services, etc.) to gather requirements and implement solutions consisting of system builds, deployments, containerization, automation, compute, storage, cyber security, encryption, and VMWare/Virtualization.
• Manage burn rate and budget.

DevOps SME, Operational Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Work with global geographically dispersed cross-functional teams (Dev, Test, Ops, and Security) to modernize IT environments and to migrate from on-prem to cloud.
• Work with stake holders to prioritize order in which gaps/features are to be implemented.
• Migrated SAP SuccessFactors and BizX Applications for 16 Federal Clients from SAP Data Centers to AWS (SAPNS2 ACE Cloud).
• Work with multiple projects, teams, applications, and technologies in support of ongoing deployments, migrations, and DevSecOps/SCM needs for SAP SuccessFactors Applications.
• Migrated 16 Federal clients from SuccessFactors to NS2 Cloud Environment. Received praises from the NS2 and SuccessFactors management for this work, have internal s at both locations to attest.

SCM Architect and Process Lead

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an Architect and Process Lead responsible of overseeing the SCM activities for two separate teams (software development, software maintenance/support) consisting of over 350 resources located in four geographical regions (Michigan, Chicago, Canada, and India).
• Gathered corporate requirements from the project office, and project requirements from the stake holders to conduct initial assessment.
• Manage a geographically dispersed release management team consisting of nine CMs.
• Planned, defined, received approvals, and implemented the following CM processes and tools in support of GM initiatives at the Capgemini development center
• SW Development Process based on SDLC along with a fully automated integration, build, and deployment process to (test, beta, performance, and production) environments.
• Configuration Management Process utilizing SVN and VM
• Sharing of test and development environments by the development, QA, and the support team.
• Implemented processes and created plans to consolidate code into a single repository for over 150 applications. The source code was initially scattered over at multiple vendor sites in various geographical locations. Identified and worked with the SCM Leads for each of the applications to track, transfer, and integrate code into a single repository.
• Provided SCM to create awareness and to insure compliance with the SCM policies and procedures.
• Participated in CCBs and release planning meetings.
• Conducted SCM audits on high visibility projects to verify compliance. Provided audit reports to the stake holders.

Confidential, Dallas, Tx

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a complete IT Asset Management solution for MDS Pharmaceuticals based on CMDB within an ITIL and FDA regulated environment.
• The complete solution was implemented in three phases.
• Requirements gathering (detailed information on CIs and attributes to be captured, maintained over its lifespan, and retired).
• Architecture, design, and implementation of CMDB and auto-discovery tools.
• Implementation of tools,, and work methods to analyze and reconcile the differences between the CMDB and the data collected by the auto-discovery tools. . Implementation also included CMDB Audit Plan, Physical Inventory Audits Plan, Missing Data Work Instructions (WI), Data Normalization WI, Processing Duplicate CIs, setting up templates along with the routing and approval process to capture approvals prior to adding new CIs and making changes to existing CIs, and more.
• This project was administered and managed from the Capgemini Data Center located in Dallas.
• This project was implemented at an enterprise level and comprised of over 6000 CIs located at multiple facilities in Canada.

Software Development Manager

Confidential, Savannah, GA

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a SW Development Manager managing multiple projects within the VIPER portfolio of Client/Server and Web based Applications. These applications were developed in .Net using C#, VB, and ASP programming with SQL Server backend.
• Responsible of client interface in managing daily activities, interfacing lead engineers of various engineering disciplines to design, enhance, and re-engineer PLM/PDM process in Enovia/LCA environment.
• Responsibilities included managing a team of BAs, Architects, DBAs, Programmers, Testers, Administrators, and Network Engineers to build, integrate, test, and deploy 3-tier solutions.
• Provided direction to Configuration Managers in streamlining SCM processes, ensuring proper baselines are created and maintained, integrating, and managing source code received from multiple project resources and vendors (IBM, Axiom, Dassault, and Insight) in the Harvest repository.

Software Development Manager

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Responsibilities:

• Managed a development portfolio of PC-Fast/OSCAR applications
• Managed a team of on-shore and near-shore (Canadian team) of technical resources (programmers, analysts, & DBAs).
• Acted as a conduit through which all work request and new requirements were channeled, assigned, monitored, and approved.
• Ensured all PC-Fast source code and artifacts were properly tracked and promoted in the PVCS repository.
• In-charge of ensuring adhering to the CMMi level 5 processes.
• In-charge of ensuring all documents were up-to-date, approved, signed-off, and properly tracked.
• Performed Release Management activities utilizing CVS repository for the OSCAR application.
• OSCAR application was developed in Java/J2EE, on a Websphere platform in a UNIX environment.
• OSCAR application also utilized server clusters for load balancing and failover capabilities. Whereas PC-Fast portfolio contained a set of client/server applications that were developed using VB/VBA with SQL Server backend.
• Administered CVS repository and users on a Linux platform to manage OSCAR source code.
• Wrote step-by-step deployment instructions for IBM resources that controlled the production environment. The instructions included:
• Configuration changes to the production environment.
• Deployment of Java/J2EE code on Websphere platform.
• DDL, DML, and DCL changes to the Oracle database.
• Conducted Release Readiness reviews.
• Coordinated nightly deployments requiring Keane, IBM, and HP resources.

Configuration/Release Manager/PDM Metaphase Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a dedicated and people-oriented Metaphase Administrator with a positive attitude.
• Administered Metaphase application on the distributed UNIX platforms.
• Configured, Administered, and Managed R&D, test, integration, and environments.
• Implemented Metaphase patches, updates, and new releases.
• With every new Metaphase release, identified deprecated APIs in the customized Metaphase code.
• Notified project teams to update customizations by removing deprecated code.
• Worked as a gatekeeper and as a configuration manager in a multi-vendor environment to receive, integrate, manage, and build customized code. Vendors were located at various facilities within the United States, Germany, and India.
• Build and deploy C/C++ and Java code on the UNIX platforms (HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris).
• Streamlined build and deployment process using makefiles, Perl, and UNIX scripts.
• Created cron jobs and wrote Perl, UNIX, and SQL scripts to automate maintenance and monitoring of multiple environments.
• Maintained and updated backend Oracle databases, DB2, Ingress, and Access databases that were used to store persistent data for approximately 80 application.
• Created scripts to continually monitor and alert on-call support personal when issues were detected.
• Managed ClearCase VOBS, created branches for parallel development, setup standard ClearCase views to integrate and build code.
• Issued and tracked ClearCase branches to the project teams and vendors.
• Created naming and numbering schemes for major, minor, and emergency release.
• Worked with multiple vendors and project teams to diagnose and resolve build issues.

C/C++ Programmer/Configuration Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Under the guidance of the Senior Unigraphics development team, designed, enhanced, and customized the Unigraphics code on UNIX platforms (Sun and HP) using C/C++ programming language.
• Customized Unigraphics code for the CAD designers to by automating the manual time consuming tasks.
• Reduced design time for repetitive manual tasks through customization and automation from weeks to hours.
• Participated in and facilitated code reviews. As a facilitator ensured all of the changes identified during the code review are correctly updated and checked-in to the SCM repository.
• Played a key role as a configuration and release manager for this project.
• Implemented proprietary EDS configuration management tools on the UNIX platforms.
• Implemented version numbering scheme.
• Created makefiles to streamline the build process.
• Created UNIX scripts to track, package, and deploy correct versions of the code at various vendor sites. Each vendor had a unique environment which required proper versions to be installed.
• Created UNIX scripts to baseline, package, archive, and extract proper versions from the archives.
• Maintained compliance with the ISO 9000 best practices and requirements.
• Helped the organization and the project team in strictly adhering to CMMi Level 3 guidelines and in achieving CMMi Level 3 .

QA/Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed test design and test plan documents for the SBDS Diagnostic System Software.
• Created test cases to test each of the SBDS diagnostic routines.
• Worked with the QA team to identify bugs and log issues.
• Worked with the Software Development team, Database Admins (DB2), and the Automotive Engineers to resolve the identified issues (Software, Database, and Design issues).