Profile:

• Technology leader specializing in turning software delivery into a function of engineering. With viable, incremental automation and process deliverables, in a data driven feedback loop.
• 8 years in Application Lifecycle Management ALM , including driving both small and enterprise scale CI, CD and Cloud strategies and implementations.
• 4 years building, managing and mentoring on-shore / near-shore / off-shore Engineering teams in a dynamic environment.
• 5 years hands-on VCS / Build / Release / Package Engineering. 3 in C , C development.
• Deliverable focused Agile methodologies including Scrum, TDD, BDD and XP.

Recent Work Experience:

Sr Manager, Release Engineering and Continuous Delivery

Confidential

• Oversee the engineering functions in the release of fast growing customer hits, functionality, architectural complexity, data size websites and web services.
• Manage 40 geographically distributed engineers and leads, with a seven figure annual budget.
• Drive siloed organizational teams to work collaboratively towards common deliverables and vision.
• Scaled Release Ops function to 24/7 support, while bringing down engineer work weeks to 40 hours.
• Built out automation functions in the team. Mentor and hire strong leadership and SME skillsets.
• Took over a nascent but flagging Continuous Delivery program. Course corrected design, architecture and delivery approach. Evangelized concepts and won both exec and engineering support.
• Drive requirements, design and deliverables to turn our growing private cloud into an IaaS platform.
• Own the design and build out of a cloud agnostic PaaS framework to enable DevOps and CD.
• Foster a DevOps culture in matrixed project teams, through training, guidelines and framework.
• Increased delivery throughput several-fold, contributing directly to not only shorter but higher quality release cycles from 8 weeks down to 4 weeks and counting .

Enterprise-scale delivery efficiencies:

Provision Deploy Configure Test Promote, BPMN driven orchestration, private/public cloud management and abstraction, scripted environments, monitoring, deployment automation, configuration management system, distributed version control system, gating with QA Automation, EDD, reports framework.

Technology stack:

• jBPM, Drools, J2EE, jQuery, Ruby, Chef, uDeploy, Heroku, Libcloud/jClouds, ZooKeeper, Git/Gerrit/GitLab, Liquibase/Mutagen, Maven/Jenkins/Nexus, Zabbix/ELK, GCE among others.
• Operating environment tools/technology :
• nix, vCloud, WebSphere, jBoss, J2EE, jQuery, node.js, DB2, Oracle, Cassandra, Cucumber, VersionOne, Jira, Confluence among others.

Note: Was in a consultant designation from 12/2013 to 07/2014 with the same role/responsibilities.

Awards: Innovator of the

Sr ALM Consultant:

Confidential

• Conduct .Net / Java ALM best practice roadshows and webcasts.
• Perform 5-7 day programs with clients interviewing stakeholders, understanding current setup, exploring process and release needs. Present assessment and talk through recommendations.
• Spin up teams client resources consultants , perform training, drive architecture/design, set up implementation and roll-out plans. Consult on an as-needed basis after.
• Worked with NVIDIA, AutoDesk, Clear Channel, TCW, Bio-Rad, Agilent, Fisher Investments, eBags
• ALM Architect Consultant

Confidential

• Analyzed process requirements and presented ALM stack solutions. Designed and implemented a multi-tiered TFS instance with redundancy. Fulfilled best practices while improving inter-department synergy.
• Migrated/synchronized codebase from ClearCase, ClearQuest, Quality Center, Heat and Excel.
• Implemented a scalable version control, build/deployment and test automation system primarily for the eCommerce team, and extended it to the Windows, and nix based Java teams.
• Set up, evangelized and enforced CI commit build deploy test feedback loop
• Created, recruited and trained Release Engineering and Test Automation teams. Integrated these teams into existing management structure.
• Set up reporting and code analysis. Oversaw the release of the eCommerce website overhaul.

Release Engineering Manager

Confidential

• Led a small geographically distributed team of Release Engineers in the configuration management, build and deployment of acclaimed ASP.NET, WinForms, Silverlight, WPF, UX and Java product lines.
• Liaison between product teams and deployment channels, while enabling Management goals.
• Provided technology direction to a 20 test team focused on test automation.
• Responsible for the administration and extension of a global multi-tier Team Foundation Server implementation with 100 recent users across 4 continents at any given time.
• Restructured code-base 9 Team Projects, 30 major Branches and 100000 files to align with organization structure, scalability and maintainability. Set Merge guidelines.
• Decreased average version control response times by 69 and average build times by 34 .
• Architected the migration from VMware Lab Manager to MS VS 2010 Lab Management on Azure.
• Proposed and drove the implementation of install time anonymous feedback collection, empowering all departments of the Organization make data-driven decisions.

Previous Experience:

• Source Control Manager, Diskeeper Corporation now Condusiv Tech
• Software GRA, Bloch School of Business, University of Missouri
• Project Intern, Advanced System Labs