PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Consulting in the areas of Continuous Integration, Build Automation, DevOps, Deployments, VM Ware, UNIX/LINUX, Jenkins, Subversion, Git, GitLab, GitHub, Java and related tools/technologies
• Detailed technical knowledge and hands - on experience of Build Engineering, Configuration Management and DevOps Engineering
• Extensive experience in the design and implementation of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment and DevOps processes for Agile projects, working with technologies and platforms including Java, Jenkins, Subversion, Git, Oracle, UNIX/Linux, VM Ware, Docker, Vagrant, Chef, Puppet, AWS, Android and iOS, across the Financial, Broadcast and Media Sectors
• Over 12 years IT experience encompassing Java programming, UNIX/Linux Admin experience, and a Middleware/Application Server Specialist; developing for and automating deployments of WebSphere, WebLogic, Tibco, JBoss, Tomcat and related technologies

SKILL:

Automation/Build Tools: Jenkins, Docker, Chef, Puppet,Ansible, Packer.io, Nexus, Ivy, Artifactory, TeamCity, Bamboo

Version Control Systems: Subversion, Git, Rational Team Concert, Perforce, ClearCase, CA Harvest

Platforms: Linux and UNIX, iOS, Android, Solaris, Windows

Languages: Java, Shell scripting, Ant, Maven, JSP, XPath & XSLT, and basic C/C++, Ruby, Perl and Python

Cloud based IaaS: AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation), Google Cloud (Compute Engine) Vault, ETCD, Scalr for cloud management, Vagrant, Docker

Testing tools: SonarQube, FitNesse, Selenium, EMMA, Cucumber, WebDriver, Junit, DBUnit etc

App & Web Servers: WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Atlassian JIRA & Bamboo, IBM IHS, MS IIS

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, Sybase

Network/Infrastructure: Network/Infrastructure TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Madison, WI

DevOPS, Build/Release and Automation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Administer and Maintain Source Code Repositories including GIT and Subversion.
• Support concurrent development process with standard Branching and Merge of application source code.
• Created and maintained several build definitions and publish profiles to handle automated builds in an Agile / SCRUM environment.
• Coordinated software application and database deployments across several environments and provided feedback and training to other full-time release engineering staff for production releases during off hours.
• Administration and Support for App Servers on IIS and Websphere
• Developed custom automation build system using Hudson and TFSBuild on Team Foundation Server
• Completed set up of CD environment with focus on UrbanCode uDeploy.
• Set up uDeploy server along with automated scripts to backup the server and restore from backup for Disaster recovery.
• Wrote CHEF recipes using Ruby for automated uDeploy agent installs/updates, uDeploy agent relays install/update and configuring the same with the uDeploy server.
• Wrote and maintained shell scripts, python and perl scripts to support legacy systems which were non-CHEF enabled nodes.
• Moved 72 web services and related application to uDeploy and maintained them across 5 environments Develop, QA, UAT, PreProd and Prod.
• Developed strategies, and contracts for validation of deployments and automated rollbacks in uDeploy.
• Designed and implemented fully automated server build, management, monitoring and deployment solutions spanning multiple platforms, tools and technologies including Jenkins Nodes/Agent, Chef, Puppet, Android, VMWare, Amazon EC2
• Built and managed a large deployment of Ubuntu Linux instances systems with Chef automation. Wrote recipes, tools, shell scripts, and monitoring checks.
• Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for Ubuntu Linux using Amazon EC2, Chef, and custom Ruby/Bash scripts, Infra build out automation on CentOS, and RHEL platforms over SoftLayer.
• Worked with Chef recipes/cookbooks using ruby which involved installing, updating, Oracle 11g, ucDeploy agents, 7zip, updating CentOS, controlling load balancers, updating LDAP servers and many more etc.
• Designed and implemented automation deployment using Urbancode and Cruise to promote major releases, monthly releases, and patches from Development -> Integration/QA -> Staging/UAT -> Production.
• Leveraging project specific knowledge from developers, resolved code conflicts during merges and provided insight as needed.
• Updated bugs and user stories in ALM tool to reflect deployment information when pushing / releasing code, collating them with other information into release notes.
• Work closely with Application Development, Infrastructure Engineering, QA and Project Management Teams.
• Agile environment with Atlassian tool set: Stash, Jira, Kanban, Scrum. (certified Scrum Associate)

Confidential, Plainfield, IL

DevOPS, Build/Release and Automation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuring and executing the basic CI operations like commit build, integration build, and deployment job
• Configuring and executing the Code quality tool Sonar and Security scanning tool Veracode
• Configuring and executing the Code coverage reports like JaCoCo, Emma
• Attending Client calls, Scrum meetings, contacting App team for deployment process

Confidential

Build/Release and Automation Consultant

Environment: Ant, Maven, Nexus, SonarQube, VM Ware, IBM Rational Team Concert, Oracle, Jenkins, Git (GitLab), WebSphere

Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing and supporting fully automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes
• Working with and supporting multiple World-wide development teams delivering a wide range of software applications
• Automating the build, deployment and testing of Front End, Middleware and Database components
• Developing custom reporting tools, setting up automated health monitoring and alerting for builds and environments
• Wrote and maintained ansible yaml scripts for infrastructure buildout
• Supporting and managing IBM Rational tools - Jazz, RTC, Build Forge
• Lead the Strategy and Delivery of DevOps in Mobile Solutions for IBM. Lead the Strategy and Delivery of DevOps along with CI/CD on Cloud Infrastructure for WYSE (lower and prod environments)
• Bench marked, and developed PoC for multiple CI/CD implementation models using a wide variety of tools such as UrbanCode, Nexus, CruiseControl, Artifactory, Archiva, Atlassian tools (Stash, Github, plugins etc), Docker, Chef, Puppet,
• Automated the maintenance of 80+ NDC and IDC servers (including dev, qa, load, preprod and prod) using Puppet configuration.
• Configured puppet resources for maintaining the follow applications:
• WAS (did the upgrade from 7.0.1 to 8.5.5 using puppet configurations)
• HIS v7 to v8 upgrade using Puppet
• Installation of Kana reports on all puppet slave servers followed by a security patch update
• Adding kanaadm user to sudoers in order to facilitate reports generation using puppet
• Wrote and maintained chef cookbook to install, update F5 load balancer and also Exceliance load balancer.
• Assist application development teams in various initiatives focusing on Networks, Information Risk & Security, and Data Centers.
• Execute cost reduction and avoidance initiatives across a range of IT and business functions.
• Lead efforts to define business continuity planning.
• Plan and administer project portfolio exceeding $30 million.
• Produce monthly, quarterly capacity and system health reports for senior management.
• Plan and execute corporate Disaster Recovery and Business Resiliency exercises.
• Adopt agile practices in the execution of infrastructure projects.
• Led projects as scrum master.

Confidential

Build Automation and Configuration Manager

Environment: Jenkins, Subversion, Continuous Integration, Agile, Maven, Nexus, Ant, Java, Solaris, RHEL Linux, VM Ware

Responsibilities:

• Introducing and implementing Continuous Integration principles and practises for the Billing Development Team using Jenkins & JNLP Nodes, Subversion, VMWare, ClearQuest, JUnit, DBFit, FitNesse, Atlassian JIRA
• Developing automated process for builds and deployments; Jenkins, Ant, Maven, Sonatype Nexus, Shell Script, Perl, Java
• Set up and maintained fully automated Build and Test processes for Apple iOS and Android devices
• Creating and managing Development and Continuous Integration Environments using VMWare ESX, automated through Jenkins using PXE boot, Perl and the VM Ware CLI, also involved in several projects setting up builds using Katello, Foreman, Puppet and Chef
• System and User Administration - responsible for the maintenance of DHCP, DNS, LDAP, AD and NFS services on Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Development environments
• Automating the installation, deployment and maintenance of Middleware Application Servers to RHEL Development and Test Environments on VMWare ESX
• Creating bespoke tools to support and enable Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and system monitoring/reporting; using JSP and Shell Scripts with a MySQL database, harvesting data from various sources and API’s (Spark, Remedy, ClearQuest etc) to provide consolidated and automated live reports
• Developed systems to enable baselining and tracking of different types of Reference Data; automated the creation and labelling and adding to version control, then set up push-button deployments from Subversion to Oracle Databases via Jenkins and JNLP Nodes, with full auditing and user authentication and authorisation provided by the corporate Active Director