Career objective

Looking for a position where I can continue to grow and learn new technologies. Take on complex tasks/projects and lead them to successful completion.

Professional experiences

Constant Contact, Confidential

• Application Operations Manager
• Constant Contact is a leader in email marketing for small businesses.
• Managing a team of 3-5. Improved existing processes. One process improvement decreased deployment time from 10 hours to 6 hours.
• Migrated WebSphere 6.1 to JBoss 5.01
• Create a Site Mgmt java app. This is a permission based app where a user can manage a JBoss server stop/start/restart with load balancer manipulation. A user also has the ability to run application deployments from here.
• Create back end code in python to support the Site Mgmt java app. Func was used to run run remote commands on remote linux servers.
• Worked with our Systems team on implementing Puppet for configuration management.
• Development deployment automation using python, puppet, and jenkins for java applications. Automation also interacted with the F5 load balancer.
• Manged release and hot fix schedule.
• Worked on project planning including coming up with milestones.
• Built application servers at relocated DR site.
• Contributing to the DevOps team. Creating a process and plan for continous deployments to deploy an app from the dev sandbox - > qe -> stage -> prod.

Sr App Specialist

Confidential

• Developed a plan to migrate Production servers from WebSphere 6.0 on Windows 2003 to WebSphere 6.1 on Red Hat.
• Created WebSphere configuration scripts which config the box after a kickstart. shell, perl, and jacl scripts.
• Created many scripts. For example, automated bringing production site down for maintenance, verification of production deploys. shell and perl scripts
• Helped in the creation of a DR site.
• 24 X 7 support of production site.

Sr Release Engineer

Confidential

• Helped develop and maintain build scripts using Ant. Developed an automated build deploy system to help in the updating of QA test systems. The automated deploy scripts were written in perl and jacl for deployment to WebSphere.
• Developed an Ops Dashboard web application for use by the Ops team. The web application was written in java. Information was reported from DB2 queries. Real-time PMI data was gathered by pooling the perfservlet and formatting the results using xmi tags.
• Provided support in the conversion of WebSphere 3.1 to WebSphere 5.1.
• Coverted our production environment from stand-alone WebSphere 5.1 to WebSphere 6.0 Network Deploy. Also, started the implementation of shared libraries.
• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere and IBM IHS. Developed scripts to help in the installation and configuration of a WebSphere. Scripts written in DOS and jacl.
• Performed ClearCase and ClearQuest upgrades from 4.x to 2003. Also responsible for providing support for these applications.
• Developed an engineering intranet site using jsp wiki and integrating jsp reports into it.
• Developed a mechanism for the marketing team to push content to the stage and production servers.
• Developed a web-based Delivery Note system. Engineers used the delivery note system to describe and list code changes they made with a particular code delivery.
• Provided 24 X 7 on-call support of the production system. Part of the process was to analyze production failures, provide product and software upgrades, and make configuration changes.
• Became a team lead. Provided technical leadership to other team members.

Confidential

OFMS is a pioneer in the field of Space and Equipment accounting and the FM business of managing an organization's strategic resources of physical assets.

Software Engineer

• Main responsibility is to reverse engineer the client product that was developed using Sybase PowerBuilder. I reviewed the code and developed documentation on all functionality.
• Used Oracle 9.0 to store data. Created and modified tables, indexes, views, sequences, and packages.
• Began to develop the web-based product using ASP .Net. Developed centralized code to make it easier to develop each individual screen. All web pages are built as building blocks where a developer needs to only provide a value to each variable. This process as allowed us to be a couple months ahead of schedule.
• All forms and datagrids are built dynamically based on an individual users security options and personal preferences. Data was pulled from the database and used in creating the form with various types of input types textbox, date box, number box, memo box, drop down list .
• Integrated JavaScript functions with ASP .Net to perform various actions. For instance, used JavaScript to build a security tree of 700 elements where an administrator has the ability to change the permissions of each individual element.
• Using JavaScript, provided users the ability to arrange the layout of the form and grid. Users have the ability to hide and/or change the order of individual fields.
• Integrated Crystal Reports with ASP .Net by using the standard reports developed in Crystal to be used in the web-based product.

Confidential

Trellix is the leading provider of client based and private-label of web site publishing software and management services for top consumer destination sites and small business providers.

Sr. Release Performance Engineer

• Built, maintained, and administered the Exchange Server, Database Servers, Domain Controller, Network Switches, Netscreeen Firewall, Backup Server, Corporate Web/FTP Servers, DNS Server, ClearCase Server, and Build Servers.
• Built dev servers by installing the OS and installed additional software based on specs given to me by a developer. Have experienced in installing and configuring Apache, Tomcat, Java, and IIS.
• Performed performance testing on the web site publishing product using Radview WebLoad 4.5.
• Discussed performance testing results with the development team and worked with them to improve critical areas. Built a clean testing cluster environment before each test.
• Created performance testing scripts in perl, php and jsp. For instance, a script written in perl, php, and jsp connected to a MySQL database.
• Create various perl, php, and jsp scripts. Examples include web login page to authenticate users before they were allowed access to our web site publishing product. Another is having a script connect to a database and retrieving the data.
• Built and managed hosting platforms Linux Windows for the Dev and QA team. The environment was the exact replica of the production environment. This process was documented in detail.
• Performed management duties for ClearCase. Such tasks include creating new branches, setting up new users for installation, perform merges between various versions, and provide assistance to the dev team. Worked with the dev team to fix conflicts that appeared during the merge process. Also improved the databases performance by deleting build labels which were older than 12 months.
• Created and administered an automated build system in 4NT where builds were done on both Windows and Linux. On Linux, build scripts were written in Unix Shell Script and did such tasks as compiling Apache, GTop, and other packages. On Windows, omake was used to build jars and compile jsp's. Source code was pulled from the ClearCase Server.
• Created a demo build process for the Unix hosting platform product in perl. Process included pulling source from CVS, compiling the packages when necessary and creating a rpm.
• Created a demo build process for the Windows hosting platform product. Created .bat files that pulled source from Visual SourceSafe and compiled individual .Net projects from the command line.
• Created and managed an automated patch system in 4NT.
• Modified existing ASP .Net and Visual C so we could get the Windows Hosting Platform working in the QA environment.

Web Developer / Database Programmer

• Designed and built a metrics database in MS SQL 2000. The database schema was based on xml data generated by the web site publishing product. Database has about 500,000 records.
• Backed up and did performance tuning on all corporate MS SQL databases. Also, wrote stored procedures, setup SQL Mail, and setup triggers.
• Created VB apps to download logs from partners and parse the log data before storing in a MS SQL.
• Developed ASP reports that pulled information from various databases.
• Developed several corporate websites using ADO, ASP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and ODBC.
• Built and administered the corporate web servers. Installed and configured Windows 2000, MS SQL 2000, and IIS 5.0.
• Developed a Content Management intranet that allowed users to update content on the corporate websites. Content such as FAQs, Tips, News, and Employment was updated using this system.
• Developed a Community web site which included Message Boards, Web Site Submission, Support Chat Room, and FAQs.
• Customized and administered the call tracking system for the Support department.
• Customized and administered the bug tracking system for the QA/Development departments.