DevOps Architect Resume

SUMMARY:

17 years of industry experience in DevOps and tools development, encompassing all aspects from process implementation and optimization to end - to-end process architecture, to organization ownership, including people and asset management and budgeting and forecasting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

DevOps Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Evangelization of code flow practices, test integration and build and release process in the Manufacturing Engineering division.

DevOps Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Designed company-wide TFS code flow process.
Authored process and tools for Confidential stack.
Authored and delivered training on code quality, code flow, dependency management and new tools and features.
Presenting user forums to introduce new tools and processes.

Principal Build Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Combined 3 separate businesses into single division with unified process, tools and branching strategy.
Redesigned build process: separated build from deployment; removed external process dependencies; simplified and improved custom process tools; shortened build time from 1 hour to under 10 minutes; improved build system reliability and availability; set up the system for continuous integration.
Redesigned release process: decoupled branches from environments; introduced proper versioning; put in flexibility to allow variety of deployment scenarios with single workflow; reduced deployment time and reliability; gained enthusiastic advocates in project dev leads.

Software Design Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Design, improvement and optimization of job engine system in the SQL organization.
Reduced H/W footprint by 40% without reduction of service.
Reduced disruption due to planned downtime by 50%.
Implemented solutions allowed to reassign 2 people to other tasks (10% of staff).
Shipped SQL Server 2012.

Build Facilitation Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Streamlined Visual Studio 2010 servicing build and removed manual effort and failures due to external build-time dependencies.
Removed manual effort from ISO creation request tool, so that customers can request and receive ISOs automatically bypassing build lab staff and ensuring service outside business hours.
Pioneered environment-aware lean NT service used in update deployment across the lab to eliminate monthly 8-hour downtime and service disruption.
Investigated inefficiencies in staffing, process and work-load distribution in the build lab; Presented solutions led to redefinition of the team’s SLA, focusing the effort and reducing excessive staff by over 50%.
Shipped Silverlight v5 for Windows and Mac, Visual Studio 2012.

Software Build Engineer II

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Managed 3 people, who administered company-wide build engine used by over 200 product teams (500 feature teams) including Bing, Windows Live, Hotmail, Xbox, Kinect, Zune, Windows Phone, Surface, MSN Ads, Dynamics and others.
Contributed to customer satisfaction and net promoter scores above 95% and 99.95% service availability in FY2010.
Designed and published tools extending the operation of BuildTracker through API for customers and administrators (5 tools published on Confidential , 4 shared on Confidential and more tools and solutions for lab-specific use shared on demand).
Designed and published tool to migrate products between BuildTracker instances. This tool was instrumental in migrating Windows Phone 7 project to separate build lab late in the release cycle without impacting their release schedule.
Designed and deployed automation to ensure seamless operation of the system of 800 computers and VMs with less than 15 minute downtime per month.
Proposed and delivered on a very short schedule an intermediate solution to the IIS app pool exhaustion bug that eliminated service outage of 4-8 hours per week.

Software Build Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Managed Windows Server source flow, including code merges, daily builds and dev team interaction and support.
Optimized process via performance trials and analysis of hardware configurations.
Designed end-to-end build automation including hand-off to test and release bringing consistency, reliability and quicker turn-around time for daily builds.
Published code branching tool for entire Windows organization.
Personally produced, real-signed and released OOBs (Out-of-band releases) to the World (most notably Active Directory Application Mode) and internally (most notably CAPICOM).
Was one of 11 people in the entire company with access to the Winlogon and Rights Management code.
Pioneered the use of SAN technology in the build release and propagation cutting drop copy time by 99%.
Shipped Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista.