SUMMARY

• 7+ years of IT Industry experience with Configuration Management, Build, Release Management and Quality Assurance using CVS, VSS, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Subversion, Perforce on UNIX and Windows environment.
• Well versed in Software Configuration Management Systems, Source Code Version Control Systems and functions of Build Systems.
• Experience with the Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and RUP, Agile, CMMI methodologies and processes including design and documentation activities.
• Experience in managing the configuration and security for Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Experience in creating, customizing and scheduling multiple build definitions, implementing build controller and agents in TFS.
• Extensive experience in using Build Automation tools like, MS Build, ANT, Hudson, Jenkins, Team City, Cruise Control.
• Trained developers and CM team on CM best practices and new features of the tool.
• Experienced in setting up Baselines, Branching and Merging in TFS
• Experience in creating and supporting custom reports from TFS Data warehouse.
• Worked on cross - platforms (Windows-Unix) with CVS and Subversion.
• Strong knowledge of Version Control systems and Software Configuration Management (SCM) best practices.
• Possess good debugging skills with sound knowledge of Code Repository, Databases and SQL.
• Well exposed in Build and Release systems for web-based software systems.
• Proficient in Analysis, Design, Development, Code Review, Testing, Preparation of program specifications, Unit Test plans, and Production support.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to clearly communicate and share solutions at all levels to various audiences.
• Responsible for interacting with the client, understanding their requirements and implementing the necessary changes in the program.
• Experience in all phases of the Data warehouse life cycle involving Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Production implementation.
• Experience with UNIX Shell Scripting.
• Experience in Configuration Management Database (CMDB) at an Admin level.
• Quickly learn and master new technology; equally successful in both team and self-directed settings; and proficient in a range of computer systems, languages, tools and testing methodologies.
• Highly adaptive and proven ability to work in a fast paced teaming environment with excellent communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Release Engineer & CMDB Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured TFS 2012 Application Tier, Build Server, SharePoint and Reporting server.
• Configured Build server, created build agents and staging locations.
• Standardized branching strategy for each domain, suitable for parallel development and production hot-fixes.
• Created and customized build definitions in TFS 2012.
• Created build definitions for Manual, Gated Check-in and Scheduled builds.
• Customized and created new TFS work items and new TFS work item queries.
• Installed and used TFS Power Tools, Build Extensions Power Tools, and TFS Sidekicks.
• Customized MSF Agile process template - updated states and transitions for Bug and Task.
• Configured different Check-in policies and Custom path policies. Also, provided training to teams on check-in policies.
• Managed team projects having multiple projects written in a variety of programming languages.
• Configured ‘Jenkins’ for building the code, from requirements gathering and rolling it into production.
• Set up the Jenkins continuous integration server including design, installation, configuration and administration.
• Designed and implemented fully automated server build, management, monitoring and deployment solutions using Jenkins nodes.
• Installed and configured Urban Code Deploy for automated deployment.
• Deployment and administration of J2EE App servers like JBoss, Websphere and Tomcat.
• Set up building Java code using Ant, Hudson and deploying the built artifacts.
• Responsible for assisting the staff in implementing various automated solutions.
• Created Reports for Build Quality, Build Success and Build Summary that helps you track changes in the quality of the code that the team has checked-in and also to determine the status of each build.
• Participated in Release and Change Management Approval meetings to finalize Production Releases.
• Evaluating tools and technologies to improve the overall Release process.
• Syncing the production change orders to the non-production environments across various server stacks via Stack Sync methodology.
• Work with team members to educate/train them on how to use TFS as an ALM tool beyond just source control, customize process templates and work item templates as needed.
• Requirements gathering for setting up Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
• Meeting with the App-Dev managers and teams to educate them about CMDB and using it as a tool to gauge the impact to environments after a code change.
• Helped the Systems Engineering team to install the agents on the servers via a gold image to report the server attributes back to a database.
• Loading the servers, databases, network pieces and applications into the CMDB as CIs using GR Loader.
• Populating the relationships for Change Management to judge the impact and perform a cause-effect analysis.
• Complete maintenance of the Configuration Management Database acting as a Configuration Administrator.

Confidential, Fargo, ND

Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with data center team to install and configure TFS 2010 Application Tier, Build Server.
• Installed and configured TFS 2012 environment on research Lab.
• Migrated research Team projects from TFS 2010 to TFS 2012.
• Migrated data from PVCS to TFS 2010.
• Configured Build server to perform secure FTP (install Putty) to client machines for production deployment.
• Configured Build server, created build agents and staging locations.
• Created build definitions for Manual, Continuous Integration, Rolling, Gated Check-in and Schedule builds.
• Created a Windows Scheduler to run TFS 2010 build for every ‘x’ minutes
• Created custom built workflow activities for - FTP, Decrypt password for FTP, Get Response from FTP Server, Work Item creation with all deploys artifacts for audit purpose.
• Customized the build process templates in windows workflow designer in order to drop the build on different environments.
• Made the build definitions available to run from VS2012, VS2010 or Eclipse IDE.
• Customized and created new TFS work items and new TFS work item queries.
• Installed and used TFS Power Tools, TFS Sidekicks.
• Configured different Check-in policies and Custom path policies. Also, provided training to team on check-in policies.
• Performed Backup and Restoring of Databases on Microsoft SQL Server while migrating team projects form Research TFS 2010 to Research TFS 2012.
• Customized TFS 2010 build script to change the build quality as “Unit Test Failed” when the build failed due to Unit Test Fail.
• Built java code using the build tool called Jenkins and deployed the War and Jar files.
• Worked on scripts to automate compilation and deployment of Web and J2EE applications
• Supported daily builds for all pre-production environments.
• Participated in Release Approval meetings to finalize Production release dates.
• Provided weekend support for all CM issues.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Build & Deployment Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience with various aspects ofApplication Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes and technologies including revision control, build management, versioning and automation, application deployment and release management.
• Day-to-day activities include but not limited to:
• Solve build script issues and implementing release deployment standards and fixing compilation issues.
• Troubleshoot any connectivity and access issues withTFS.
• Support and administering version control systems-Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Subversion (SVN).
• Support to internal Help Desk to resolve user concerns related to the servers & software’s which are involved in version control systems.
• Assist other team members with the issues and their concerns, also providing best practices.
• Validate source control in compliance to SOX rule.
• Create a report on the check-ins that overrides the check-in policy.
• Subversion Administrator - responsible for creating Tags, Branches and Branch Merges.
• Migrated projects from Perforce to Subversion.
• Migrated Java projects from Subversion to TFS 2010.
• Created branching strategy to be used in Team Foundation Server 2010.
• Created and maintained a CM Merge Schedule document to track all merges.
• Created new Team Projects and Initial structure.
• Created and setup Security policy for Team Projects, and administered security in TFS.
• Performed Production deployments, Performed IIS Reset.
• Administered TFS Project Portal on SharePoint.
• Created new Workitem queries and Alerts.
• Installed Team Foundation Power Tools and Team Foundation Sidekicks.
• Perform responsibilities of identifying, implementing, and supporting branching model to support release calendar.

Confidential, Montpelier, VT

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Migrated projects from CVS, Subversion and Perforce Repositories to TFS 2010.
• Created User Groups and administered Security in TFS 2010.
• Standardized branching strategy and created new Team Projects and Branches.
• Customized Team Foundation builds by adding custom targets.
• Created custom queries to query different work items.
• Installed and used TFS sidekicks Team Foundation Power Tools (Label, workspace, sidekicks).
• Performed Automated and Scheduled builds.
• Configured different check-in Policies.
• Performed code merge between different branches and resolved Merge Conflicts.
• Created New Work item types and Customized existing Work item templates.
• Performed and deployed Builds for various Environments like QA, Integration, UAT and Productions Environments.
• Documented the whole Build Process going and made them available for all the other team members by uploading them onto the Intranet.
• Maintained the CVS repository. Created various tags and branches and merged those branches with the trunk and with other branches. Applied tags for each build.
• Created a new test bed for the QA Team and documented the whole process and uploaded that onto the Intranet.
• Active role in preparing documents like SCM New User guides and SCM verification and SCM Audit.
• Prepared Migration logs for every release and maintained the data accuracy.
• Maintained Defect Fix Deployments and documented the deployed files in the appropriate Environment Migration log.

Confidential

Software Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Created design documents, technical specifications - UML class diagrams.
• Worked on ANT and MAVEN scripts.
• Experience in using Cruise Control to automate deployments from Subversion.
• Created custom scripts to stop and start services on various environments.
• Worked with security standards on VSS and Subversion.
• Involved in day to day administration on tools like VSS, Cruise Control and Subversion.
• Responsible to fix deployment issues and also assisted team mates on common issues.
• Upgraded .Net code from Framework 1.1 to Framework 2.0.
• Programmed Data Access Layer using ADO.NET which involved in accessing data from the Database using Connected Architecture.
• Used Java Script, HTML, DHTML, IIS and CSS for developing Web Pages.
• Involved in creating web methods for web service.
• Implemented HTML Server Controls, ASP Server Controls along with Validation Controls.