Experience Summary

• 18 years' experience working in core technology environments, in varied roles as ET Manager, Deployment Lead, QA Architect, Programmer and IT Tools Developer
• Skilled in IT Project Architecture, Design, Implementation and Deployment for e-Commerce, SmartMetering, Communications and Banking industries
• Guided teams responsible for Database Design, Network Topology, and User Interface development
• Led client support efforts, including scope and discovery sessions, gathering business and technical requirements, creating detailed functional and technical specifications in pre and post-sales engineering role
• Managed coordination between development and business teams on data modeling, object modeling, system configuration, testing, package software implementations and web development
• Successfully worked with diverse teams in multi-geographical location experienced in managing multiple projects with on-site off-site team combination 15 20 resources at an ODC managed and trained ODC teams in India and China

Technical Summary

Employment History

Confidential

Cloud Engineering Manager

• Responsible for architecting VMWare ESX 5.x cloud infrastructure used by development and ET teams. Also, responsible for increasing test automation percentage threefold - from 20 to 60 - within 2 years while managing ET team of 12 for feature and performance testing of SafeNet's ProtectV product used to protect virtual machines on the cloud. VMs of various Windows and Linux flavors are managed by PV Manager which sends, authenticates and rotates keys for the clients. These clients can be protected at pre-boot, OS state or partition-level encrypted state . The PVM manages clients via SOAP, CLI and HTTPS access. Automated testing is done via a cloud-agnostic test harness called ATF that works on AWS EC2/VPC/GovCloud and VMWare's vSphere clouds. Environment: SafeNet ProtectV KeySecure , VMWare vSphere, Amazon AWS EC2 VPC, Python 2.7, SOAP, cygwin, ssh, Komodo, Windows various flavors including Win2012 , Linux various flavors , MKS, TestLink, Altassian, Confluence, JIRA, GitHub/GitLab, PyCharm, Fisheye.

Confidential

Sr. Lead Systems Engineer

• Responsible for managing, updating and maintaining as well as serving as a Subject Matter Expert SME on Patch Management Application PMA that is used to schedule 60,000 Wells Fargo servers for patching and compliance with the banking industry regulations using Altiris Patch Management software. The system is integrated with Remedy Asset management, and UNIX shell scripts are used in conjunction with cron to sync the data with PMA, as well as generating automated reports, scheduling Windows UNIX patching and sending out automated notifications to the responsible parties. Awarded certificate of appreciation for handling of the database remediation task.

Environment: PHP 5.x, Smarty template engine, JavaScript, MS SQL 2008/2005, SSIS and Business Intelligence Development Studio BIDS , Informix 11.5 with 4GL, iSQL/dbaccess, Apache 2.x, HP-UX, RHEL Linux, Windows2008 Server, VMWare ESX, DOTNET3.5 and 4.0 with C , Visual Studio 2008 with VS.PHP, xdebug, Komodo IDE, Altiris, Remedy, Novell Zenworks, cron, cgi, awk, korn, sed, bash scripting, PowerBroker, VAS.

Confidential

Sr. Deployment Engineer/System Integration Specialist

• Responsible for deployment of eMeter's flagship SmartGrid Management software, EnergyIP, product for clients on heterogeneous environments comprised of Linux/Windows, HP-UX, AIX, Sun Solaris machines. The deployment included successfully completing install or refresh of environments with energyIP Siebel and PIPe repositories and EnergyIPSystemConsole, as well as installing and configuring Siebel including Workflow Engine, Apache and Tomcat for the Automated Metering Infrastructure AMI hosts that help enable utility companies to have their SmartMeters report to the Meter Data Management Software MDMS . The process also included data sync and data import from various Smart Meter adapters via Tibco Enterprise Service Bus ESB technology.

Environment: EnergyIP 6.x 7.0, EnergyEngage, Siebel 7.8, Tibco Rendezvous, Apache Tomcat 5.15, Oracle 10g, Oracle Business Intelligence and DataWarehousing, SQL Plus, RedHat Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Sun Solaris 10, Windows Server, VMWare ESX, Ant, Jira, Confluence, Wiki, Perforce, Bash shell scripting .

Confidential

Principal QA Architect

• Successfully architected a comprehensive automated testing solution for SugarCRM's product line running on LAMP/WAMP environment using Canoo webtest OpenSource testing tool, effectively reducing the testing time five to ten-fold. Successful transferred knowledge to the China team. This vision and strategy would ultimately test the builds as a part of Continuous Integration Testing. I was also responsible for executing Jmeter performance tests for nightly builds.

Environment: Mac OSX, RedHat Linux, VMWare ESX, Virtualization, Windows XP, Canoo, Ant, Bugzilla, Testopia, WaTiR/Ruby, Jmeter, mySQL, Oracle PL/SQL, MSSQL, SVN, XML, MS Office 2007.

Confidential

Principal QA Architect

Responsible for evaluating existing tools, proposing and implementing a comprehensive solution using OpenSource tools to automate testing of online advertisements on Quigo's advertisers and publishers network. Other responsibilities included ensuring ad placements are created and served as per the specified criteria. Quigo was acquired by TimeWarner/AOL in Dec '07. This position reported directly to the CTO of the company.

Environment: Mac OSX 10.4, Parallels Virtualization, Windows XP, Python, Canoo, Bugzilla, Siege, Grinder, Oracle PL/SQL Developer, SQL Plus, MS Office 2007.

Confidential

Program Manager/Lead Deployment Engineer

• Responsible for global deployment of AutoEASY the internal Cisco test harness, replacing the old test harnesses Autotest and ATS EASY. The process includes requirement gathering, educating the client via face-to-face or online meetings, including the post-deployment assessment follow-ups. Analyzed the data gathered for the AutoEASY runs on a weekly and monthly basis to track scheduling. The metrics were analyzed and reports were prepared in Excel along with management charts. Compiled and installed Apache server on Linux platform with the mySQL and LDAP module to gather and analyze various metrics, by making them available online to see if the deployment is taking place smoothly. Also, provide help with the build and release, fixing bugs, cycle along with running the sanity regression tests.
• Successfully automated various metrics used within Cisco across different Business Units for tracking release schedules, data defects, internally and externally reported defects, First Customer Shipment date among many others for use with Monte-Carlo simulation to predict the stability of future releases for Cisco products. Environment: Tcl8.4/Tk, Expect, Windows 2000, Solaris 2.8 , RedHat Linux Advanced Server 2.4, mySQL, PHP, CVS, LDAP, Perl, CDETS/DDTS, TIMS/QIS, CES-monitor, ClearCase.

Confidential

Engineering Manager

• Creatus provides technical consulting services in the areas of web design, web application development and quality assurance, both in-house and outsourced, for technology companies in the Bay Area. Within a 9 year timeframe, supported 10 client projects.

Confidential

Engineering Manager

• Responsible for interacting with the Professional Services Group to understand the inner workings of the DTPrice and DTPromo applications. Created test plans for these applications from the point of view of customer interaction with the software.

Confidential

Engineering Manager

• Responsible for accelerated knowledge transfer of QA processes for the Saturn project release of BlueMartini Software version 6.0. The project was then off-shored to Creatus-India office by training the off-shore team, while serving as the key liaison between BlueMartini and Creatus-India. Responsibilities included testing the daily build on Windows 2000 server and SUN Solaris 9 OS running WebLogic application server, MS SQL server 2000 and Oracle 9 databases respectively. Bug were verified and reported against Bugzilla.

Environment: Windows 2000 server/SUN Solaris 9, BEA WebLogic, J2EE development environment, Java 1.2, MS SQL server 2000/Oracle 9i, WinRunner, Bugzilla.