SUMMARY:

• I am a highly skilled technical professional and currently support two departments in Change, Configuration, Release, and Build Management using automated methods with the use of GitLab for source code management and task planning, integrated with Chef (including Kitchen), Jenkins for Builds, throughout the System Development Life Cycle in an Agile environment.
• Provided classroom style and online training in the use of our processes and products that are used to streamline and control that process.
• Work closely with Developers, Testers, Project Managers, and Development Managers.
• Standardization of Chef coding standards.
• Involved in Project Management and Support and have worked on many capitalized projects from $32M to $332M over the last few years.
• Main strengths are people management, team building motivation, organizational, troubleshooting, and project management skills. Strong technical skills in software development, Windows and Unix/Linux system administration, Networking.
• Worked through the project life cycle handling analysis, software code review, project planning, reporting, task management, and resource allocation.
• Solid background with PMO and have gone through several PM training seminars.
• Define and maintain the Build and Release management controls for the entire distributed systems organization at Confidential.
• Managed projects in mainframe, UNIX, C/S, and Windows distributed environments.
• Solid theory with communication and documentation and understand how to communicate and work with clients on issues and provide regular status updates.
• Experience with VRU, Telephony systems occurred during my time with the Telemarketing and Loss Prevention/Fraud Development areas at Confidential .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Configuration Management, Release Management, Build Management, Change Management, Project Management, AWS, Azure, Chef, Puppet, Bamboo, Docker, CentOS, Jenkins, Team City, Octopus Deploy, NuGet, Maven, AccuRev, SubVersion, GitLab, Git/Gerrit. Artifactory, Nexus, Sonar, Fiddler, FindBugs, PMD, CodeCoverage, CheckStyle, Fortify, Selenium, StyleCop, NCover, JBoss, MSBuild, MSDeploy.

Administration of Team Foundation Server (TFS), SharePoint 2007, 2010, and 2013. NuGet, Framework configuration, IIS, AntHillPro, SQL Server (2008 R2 and 2012), Datastage, Teradata, HP Service Center, Agile, Six Sigma, ITIL, VersionOne, KnowledgeLink, HP Quality Center, JIRA (hosted), CVS, CruiseControl, IDMS, DBMS, VM/CMS, MVS/TSO, IBM CMVC, Tomcat, Apache, MS Office Suite, including Access, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project. HP Quality Center, System Administration on Build Servers Windows Server 2005 - 2012, UNIX including Linux and Sun Solaris.

Programming language experience: Ruby, Ant, Java, Beanshell, C#, Powershell, SQL Server SQL scripts (DDL and DML), Informix, Sybase, UNIX Bash/C/Korn Shell scripts, Visual Basic, Perl, BEA Tuxedo fml configuration, Informix DB SQL, Sybase DB SQL, COBOL, REXX, Fortran, RPGII, C, and DOS/Windows Batch, GW Basic, MS Basic for PC s, UNIX C Shell scripts, UNIX Bash Shell scripts, Assembler.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Aurora, CO

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Chef (including Kitchen) Automation of third party application deployments in an Agile (Kanban) SDLC process in Windows and Linux environments
• Worked on Unclassified projects to streamline manual processes and evangelize DevOps to managers.
• Wrote scripts for development automation for committing source code to GitLab repositories
• Executed and troubleshooted builds using Jenkins

Configuration, Build, and Release Deployment Architect

Responsibilities:

• Administration of TFS 2013, Powershell script automation, Team City, Octopus Deploy, NuGet for Confidential Web based and Backend applications, including Mobile applications. Integration with Rally and TFS.
• Automation of repeatable manual processes, including Build Management compilations of .Net applications using MSBuild and Team City. Many applications have complex dependencies configured with Team City.
• Evaluated Jenkins, Team City, Bamboo, Puppet, MS Release management, Octopus Deploy for DevOps automation consideration.
• Automation of software staging and deployment to target server destinations for AWS and Azure Windows, and Cloud Servers.
• Authored PowerShell script to alert and report System Information including server up time and hard disk capacity on 500+ build and deployment servers on Windows platform.

Configuration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Administration of SubVersion, AccuRev, Git/Gerrit, Artifactory, Nexus, and AntHillPro (AHP) for Confidential 360 applications.
• Automation of repeatable manual processes, including Build Management compilations of Java using Maven and .Net applications using MSBuild. Many applications have complex dependencies configured with Maven or MSBuild, and AHP.
• Automation of software staging and deployment to target server destinations for Windows, UNIX, and Cloud Servers.
• Authored powershell script to report up time and hard disk capacity on 100+ build and deployment servers on Windows platform

Informatics Senior Release Analyst Configuration Management

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Team Foundation Server (TFS) and AntHillPro (AHP) for Informatics, Marketing, Government Markets, Information Systems, and Computer Operations.
• Automation of repeatable manual processes, including Build Management compilations of Java and .Net applications, and staging and deployment to target server destinations
• Converted CVS (Concurrent Version System) to TFS and CruiseControl to AHP and reused ant scripts with minor modifications to properties for new systems. Finalized October 2012.
• Authored customized online training for TFS and AHP on IBC University website for new and existing developers.
• Support RAD 7.5.5 WebSphere 7.0, .Net 3.0 and 4. Frameworks, SharePoint 2007 and 2010, SQL Server 2008, 2010 and 2012, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, Teradata, Datastage, AIX and Solaris Korn and Bash shell scripting, and iPhone and Android Moblie applications.

Senior Software Configuration Consultant for Confidential Configuration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Concurrent Verion System (CVS) and CruiseControl for Informatics
• Designed and wrote reusable ant scripts for CVS and CruiseControl integration.
• Support RAD 7.0 WebSphere 6.1, .Net 3.0 Frameworks, SharePoint 2007, SQL Server 2008,, SSRS, SSIS, AIX and Solaris Korn shell scripting applications.

Confidential, Newark, DE

Vice-President - Configuration Manager and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Development Project, Resource, and financial planning and monitoring for multiple large-scale projects that include Telemarketing and its dependent applications that follow an in-house SDLC Methodology in a matrix managed environment. (Sarbanes-Oxley compliant)
• Major contributor to PMO for Y2K, Global Change Management, and other Major Corporate projects in a challenging time specific framework.
• Task and Risk management responsibilities for each project. Release management and source code control for Telemarketing applications
• Test impact and environment assessments, planning, and coordination.
• Manage Defects and plan for implementation within a project or maintenance release.
• Manage Production support for development related incidents, Scheduling on-call, escalation procedure, support documentation and handoff.
• Recommended modifications to Peregrine Service Center for implementation procedures and tracking.
• Recommended procedures for different phases of testing and Defect tracking using Mercury Test Director.
• VRU and Telephony Migration Analysis team. Supported Avaya (inward) and Mosaix (outward) systems.
• Infrastructure Planning for global Release Management, Source Code management and Version Control, for US, Canada, UK and Ireland.
• Control for Distributed Applications.
• Recommended Global Release management approach, developed procedure, Standard Build management processes, Test Requirements pass through control with entry and exit criteria, streamlined single source code base
• Managed a team of 16 people for Configuration Management and Source Code Control
• Career and Goal planning for each individual on the team
• Defined and maintained all procedures for Release, Build and Source Code management for all software development in Newark DE, Dallas TX, and Chester ENG UK
• Promotion opportunities and planning for individuals
• Quarterly status reporting to senior management
• Contractor acquisition and control, Vendor Management and negotiation (IBM, Rational, Computer Associates, Merant), Budgeting on expense and capital projects, and Resource planning and prospect interviewing.
• Provided educational materials for developers and project managers and personalized overview education to senior managers
• Evaluation and assessment of third party software source code control tools to replace CMVC, including Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest, Computer Associates CCC Harvest, and Merant s Dimensions.
• Introduced Source Code Management to development and converted all source code for Loss Prevention and Fraud applications and set up a standard reusable build environment
• Outbound Telephony Mosaix dialer feeds and scripts.

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage defect support for application related incidents;
• Defined and provided on - call schedule, escalation procedure, support documentation and handoff
• Worked with help-desk to streamline process with developers and clients while maintaining consistency in workflow and process.
• Release management and testing of new software releases to international customer base and l Liaison between consultants and clients for software enhancement requests
• Provided in-depth educational sessions on retailer software product line and other Comshare products used in conjunction
• Client liaison and onsite consultant for the Comshare retail planning software products Software setup for desktop PC setup and integration setup with mainframe (VM/CMS and MVS/TSO) and or Unix applications.
• Provided education for the Comshare retail software product line
• Retail planning and forecasting and trend analysis reporting
• PC and mainframe integration retail actuals, plan, and forecast reporting.
• Provided remote reporting capability for store reps that travel.
• Provided graphical representations of actual, planned, and forecasted data by product by store and other client specific reports