SUMMARY

• Accomplished professional wif extensive technical expertise, working in a strong team environment, delivering challenging and rewarding software products.
• A proven leader dat delivers process automation and tools engineering, wif broad experience in configuration management and the development cycle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Development Operation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Using the Atlassian tool - suite led the development and support of an existing Build Systems and the design and roll out of new capabilities.
• Maintained the Build Tool Suite, developing specialty hooks, and handling routine maintenance and upgrades.
• Worked wif Application Support, executing Production Deployments.
• The DevOps team used Agile Practices, using two-week sprints to track progress.

Confidential

Sr Development Operation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Developed, Deliver, Managed, and Maintained all software involved in the VA VistA and Legacy Product Integration Development Systems.
• Managed deployments (Chef, Berks, Vagrant, VirtualBox, Docker, Hadoop, Drill (MapR) Administration etc), Build Automation (Jenkins, Nexus, Gradle, Rake, Maven, etc), and scripting (Ruby, Perl, Shell, Groovy, Cucumber, etc.).
• Executed under the Agile Paradigm, wif the guidance of a Scrum Master.
• Repaired Build Breaks, Jenkins/Maven/Ant build line.
• Wrote automations for builds, log handling, Automatic Jenkins Reconfigs, Confluence automation, etc.
• Configured and supported Nexus and other infrastructure systems

Confidential

Sr Configuration Management Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to repair broken installers for imminent release
• Completed all fixes in time and for release (InstallScript for InstallShield 2011)
• Analyzed large existing installer system, making Best Practice recommendations on future issues.

Confidential

Sr Configuration Management Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, installed, configured, and maintained a Continuous Integration system for the ServiceManager (SM) Product line.
• Maintained and used Maven to deliver SM builds, designing POM and Ant files as required.
• Installed, configured, and maintained CruiseControl and Jenkins/Hudson for the CI building of SM.
• Installed maintained, and supported a Nexus Repository Manager in support of the HP San Diego Development team
• Designed and delivered many specially designed automation scripts and tools, including a Build Archive Maintenance Utility, a Build Hang Monitor, a Nexus Repo Monitor, and many others.
• Delivered TEMPeffective support for any and all needs, including emergency data manipulation, server troubleshooting, and tool development.

Confidential

Sr Configuration Management Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, and delivered a generic Process Automation Server, written in Perl, capable of handling any command line driven processes. dis Server included Job Queuing, Results Archiving, and email notification. A Web interface for the manipulation of parameter files and the launching of processes was included.
• Provided internal support for Peregrine’s VMware setup, including manual actions via VirtualCenter and the scripting of simple actions via the ESX Server Perl API.
• Automated, in perl, the builds of many (10+) different product lines.
• Designed and developed a Product Packaging system, used by all Peregrine products. dis tool, written in perl, applied a common installer technology to all peregrine products.
• Provided immediate solutions to any team requirement, using a variety of technologies. me played a critical "go-to" role in my organization.
• Participated on the tiger-team dat produced the Xanadu Network Appliance, developing an automated build delivery system.
• Wrote perl modules to capture common CM actions in a remotely accessible format.
• Held responsibility as Peregrine's backup Perforce administrator, handling user creation and support, security maintenance, Client creation support, and general trouble-shooting.
• Designed, developed and delivered automated the launching and tracking of builds via web interfaces.
• Maintained a PHP-based Build Center dat handled build request and resolution from engineering, through CM and QA, to Release Management.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, development, and support of the Development Environment ObjectAda, GUI/Tools team. Designed and scripted the build process for the extended TCL shell, the extended emacs browser, and various supporting GNU tools.
• Managed the release of ObjectAda for HP UX 7.1.1 on schedule
• Personally designed, developed and supported all Unix product installers. These were adaptive, data-file driven GUI designs, written in TCL/Tk, and running from disk, on three different Unices.
• Controlled all flexlm licensing design and delivery issues for Ada product line.
• Created the StarterPack downloadable release including installation scripts.
• Specification, design, and delivery of Version Control integration scripts for ClearCase, RCS, and Continuus.
• Extended the UIMS TeleUSE to support new releases of the XRT widget set.
• Ported ObjectAda for Windows (C++) to Solaris under Bristol Technologies Wind/U.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, DOS, Mac OS X, UNIX (most implementations, including Solaris, SUN-OS, HP UX, AIX). dis experience includes installation, configuration, support and training.

Programming Tools: Perl and the CPAN, TCL/TK (+extensions), C, Java. Various SDK's for the above Unices. MATLAB, Maple, and the various math libraries (SLATEC, LINPACK, etc.). me have programming teaching experience wif Pascal and Fortran.

General Software: The scripted automation of CM processes using RCS, ClearCase, CVS, Perforce, and SVN. Open-source tools, building and usage. Tools involved in all aspects of website design and delivery, including HTML, image manipulation, basic Javascript and CGI scripting. me have been working wif Open Source tools for 20+ years.