Summary

• a record of meeting critical deployment deliveries with innovative solutions and a minimum of resource allocation. Capable of decomposing problems into resolvable vignettes and unearthing true requirements through effective discovery interviewing.
• Who employs out of the box thinking to resolve problems with available resources and deliver exceptional value to key customers. Finds solutions to problem through effective mapping of goals, human factors, available and near horizon technologies, and synthesis of deductive methodologies

Experience

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

• Develop reusable automated validation solutions using Selenium and Build Engine Services.
• Automated deployment process delivering upgrades and releases multiple times a year within small maintenance windows, minimizing maintenance outage time. Maintenance was often less than two hours for major upgrades.
• Encouraged adoption of new tool capabilities with user community through mentoring and support.
• Resolved long standing high security impediment to empower highly classified company data to reside in Team Concert.
• Determine root cause of application problems.
• Improved SQL Performance through index development, resource distribution, systems analysis, profiling, tracing and other system performance metrics.
• Developed and implemented distributed performance metrics gathering and reporting system using open source solutions.
• Designed access log analysis system for customer experience metrics without external instrumentation.
• Contribute to road mapping and service delivery planning of application infrastructure.
• Mentored and trained global engineering staff.

Confidential

Principal Engineer

• Responsible for developing solution requirements with customers and proposing architected solutions.
• Lead deployment teams and coordinated with customer infrastructure teams for solution deployments.
• Implemented complete Rational Change and Configuration Management solution on Webshere and Tomcat RRC, RTC, RQM
• Developed workflow schemas leveraging out of the box solutions as a baseline for effective workflows and development savings
• Trained user base on effective utilization of the deployed solution
• Integrated DOORS with Quality Manager
• Integrated ClearQuest with Team Concert
• Developed 3rd party integrations with API and RESTful integrations
• Drafted proposals and statement of work documents for engagements
• Investigated other opportunities for improvements related to the deployed solutions and proposed opportunities for improvement
• Managed suppliers and developed business relationships

Confidential

Principal Engineer

• Managed SharePoint, Apache, and Tomcat productions services with Oracle and MS SQL integration
• Evaluated WebSphere for Division productivity improvement through distributed services
• Built business opportunity generating visualizations for Homeland Security and Department of Defence
• Maintained Rational software development environments consisting of Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, DOORS, ClearCase and ClearQuest
• Developed requirements list for projects and lead project teams, assigning work and resources
• Successfully developed organizational project plans and lead project execution teams
• Implemented automated testing environment, reducing manual testing costs

Confidential

Principal Engineer

• Developed and maintained global development environments in Germany, China, India, The Philippines and the United States
• Deployed services on Solaris Zoned Virtual Machines providing high reliability services
• Lead global support team and mentored local junior engineers
• Defined global software development framework for assuring international import/export law compliance and implemented application environment for compliance monitoring
• Defined Enterprise software development roadmaps
• Proposed software development framework alternatives for further reducing development costs

Confidential

Senior Staff Software Engineer

• Architect and project lead of major maintenance deployment plans, coordinating cross organizational resources for plan execution
• Maintained environment resources for diverse platforms, IE Windows, Solaris, Linux, Netapp
• Developed migration tools for consolidating business acquisitions into core Enterprise framework
• Enforced software development policy and standards compliance through PERL based triggers
• Participated in the Rational Tools portion of FISMA certification for I-WIN program
• Evaluated and supported BuildForge Enterprise build environment

Confidential

Systems Consultant

• Improved customer relationships through improved communication methods like corporate email systems and web presences
• Reduced infrastructure costs by implementing open source solutions, eliminating incumbent licensing costs
• Developed Linux HA file server system leveraging GFS and NMB service architecture
• Developed Linux Kernel Mainframe Emulator, eliminating mainframe equipment and licensing costs
• Proactively maintained customer environments through service agreements

Confidential

Commerce Architect

• Architected three tier infrastructure including firewall definition and load balancing methodologies
• Defined and implemented SQL server infrastructure
• Administered MS SQL server as the DBA
• Mentored junior engineers in ASP software development

Confidential

Network Administrator

• Administered Windows NT domain, MS Exchange server and call center IVR system
• Developed web based email system
• Migrated Environment to new Enterprise domain
• Migrated organization from Lotus Notes to MS Exchange