SUMMARY

• Overall 8 years experienced in Software Configuration Management, Build and Deploy Management, Release Management, Change Management and Quality Analysis.
• Expertise on End to End automation of Build & Deployment of projects.
• Experience in Version Control Systems like Subversion (SVN/Tortoise) and IBM Clear case.
• Extensive knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in AGILE and WATERFALL models.
• Actively involved in the process of Continuous Integration using Build and deploy Tools.
• SCM - Branching, Merging and Version Control methods.
• Experience in configuring IBM BUILD FORGE for build and integrating it with IBM BLADE LOGIC for deployment.
• Expertise in using ANT, SHELL and PERL scripts for build and deployment.
• Proficient knowledge in working with JAVA/J2EE applications.
• Performed automation of timestamps verification for the deployments with Shell scripting.
• Experience in Defect tracking systems like JIRA, Quality Control and Rational Clear Quest.
• Excellent coordination of Development Team and Testing Team for numerous releases in Production Environment.
• Expertise in Smoke Testing, Functional and Integration Testing of the application after the Build and Deployment.
• Proficient in creating presentations and documentation of the build and deployment cycle.
• Excellent capability to learn new systems and technologies in very short period of time.
• Good Learner and good performer both in team and independent environments.
• Possess excellent Interpersonal, Communication, Functional, Organizational, Problem-solving and Multi-tasking skills.
• Working on projects that involve interaction with counterparts all over the globe.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

CM Tools: IBM Build Forge, IBM Blade Logic, Gas jobs, Subversion, Rational Clear Case.

Defect Tracking: Rational Clear Quest, QC, JIRA

Programming: Shell Scripts, HTML, Java, Ant, Perl, Batch files.

Database: Oracle

Operating Systems: XP, Unix

Application Servers: Web Logic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

BUILD AND DEPLOY ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Worked from the initial stages of configuring IBM Build Forge for the project.
• Automated the code pull from Clear case, baselining and build of war and ear files.
• Involved in integration of Build Forge with Blade Logic end to end automation.
• Automation of Timestamp and verification mechanisms after the deployment including e-mail communication to the team.
• Performed migration of code from Clear Case to Subversion.
• Always rendered successful and error free deliverables on time.
• Effectively performed critical releases in the code move of SIT LT UAT PROD BSI environments.
• Taken care of both Front End and Back End releases of the project.
• Have participated in more than about 300 releases of the project.
• Always rendered effective E-mail communications and phone calls with proper etiquettes.
• Extraction and summarization of Daily Status Reports (DSRs).
• Actively given demos and knowledge transition to the team members all over the globe.
• Effectively worked in the Co-location along with the development during the critical period of the releases.
• Have been Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for Daily Status call.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

RELEASE ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Participated in critical CAB meetings with Project Managers for scheduling the releases.
• Coordinating emergency CAB meetings as and when required.
• Involved in the creation of the tokens/build labels for every release.
• Created the build requests in IBM Clear quest consolidating all the build components for the release.
• Created NEXUS requests for backend releases of SQL script move.
• Ensured the delivery of the code by Development team to the Clear case/Subversion.
• Coordinated with Development Team and Testing Team for the outages in the Application for the releases.
• Have a good knowledge of SQL queries to verify application test results or trouble shoot.
• Worked on granting access to the Testing Team or new users of the application.
• Preparing DTEC and ADP documents for configuration changes in the application.
• Automated the different report generation of the ear/war files between various environments using UNIX Shell scripting that will enable easy synchronization.
• Ensured that the application was always up and running with thorough monitoring and troubleshooting with development team and web admins where ever required.
• Documented the release components and the bugs fixed in the releases.
• Ensured timely delivery of the application for testing.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

BUILD AND DEPLOY ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Implemented branching, merging and versioning of the code in Subversion.
• Planned and designed the build and release methodologies for the application.
• Assisted in Admin team in creating the deploy jobs in Blade Logic during initial stages of the projects.
• Created automated scheduled builds with IBM Build Forge.
• Written batch files to build properties files for various environments.
• Coordinated with Development team to resolve errors in integration.
• Performed automated deployments of the code to WebLogic servers with IBM Blade logic.
• Performed timely code delivery till Production Environments.
• Ensured error free build and deployment of the application.
• Performed smoke testing of the application after the deployment.
• Performed the synchronization of various environments with the latest code.
• Have given to the team members in using new methodologies in Automation.
• Possessed a good knowledge in log mining to trouble shoot deploy errors.
• Ensured sending timely notifications to Release, Development and Testing Teams on the progress and completion of the build and deployments.

Confidential

BUILD AND DEPLOY ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Have created the build projects and given security permissions to the team members.
• Enabled automated Continuous Integration of projects with scheduled builds.
• Configured IBM Build Forge to Baseline and pull code from Clear Case.
• Performed deployments with Blade Logic and automated time stamp verification with Shell scripting.
• Actively given demos and knowledge transition to the team members all over the globe.
• Have rendered extended support for nightly build and deploy of the code.
• Possessed a good knowledge of log mining for trouble shooting the deployment errors.
• Have stored and executed SQL queries for the back end release.
• Have automated space clearing in staging area with batch scripts.
• Taken care of both front end and back end releases of the application.
• Performed initial smoke testing of the application after deployment.
• Well documented the Build and Deploy procedures.
• Have been the Single Point of Contact for Daily Status reporting calls.