SUMMARY

• IBM Rational ClearCase - ClearQuest - Multisite. Now training and working with Rational Team Concert and Rational Requirements Manager
• Configured these build servers in Ubuntu Linux Dev Environment: Hudson Open Source Build Server, TeamCity 5.0 Build Server, Pulse Continuous Integration Server
• Ubuntu Server 11.10, Ubuntu Server 11.04, Server 10.04.3, Server 10.04.3, Server 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support)
• Zenoss Commercial Open Source Application, Systems & Network Monitoring Software and Hyperic HQ Open Source Monitoring and Management Software.
• Amanda open source backup and recovery software
• Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest. Multisite for ClearCase and ClearQuest (UCM)
• CULPRIT, COBOL II Programmer for Newport News Shipbuilding in addition to ClearCase, Endeavor
• IBM xSeries Hardware, IBM Bladecenter Hardware
• HP Hardware + HPUX OS, Sun SPARC + Solaris OS
• Windows OS (Advanced Server 200x), VMWare ESX, vCenter, vSphere 4
• Tivioli Provisioning Manager (TPM) Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment (TPMfOSD)
• KVM (RedHat Enterprise Virtualization), Xen (Hypervistor, XCI, Xen Cloud)
• HTML - Active Server Pages, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server
• Windows NT Server - Workstation Administration
• UNIX, UBUNTU LINUX SERVER Ubuntu Studio - Multimedia
• RED HAT LINUX Novell Netware, Web Design Tools
• Visual Source Safe (Conversions from Source Safe to ClearCase)
• StarTeam SCM Tool, Merant PVCS Tracker
• Wise Installer for Windows Professional System Oracle Database, ClearQuest Interface
• Microsoft Front Page, Microsoft Power Point, Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual InterDev
• ADS/O (Application Development System Online - Mainframe Systems)
• COBOL, COBOL II, SQL, MVS, JCL, Microsoft EXCEL, C++, HTML
• Novell Netware, Visual C++ for Windows, VB Script
• Windows 7 & Windows 8 Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Ultimate

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

RTP, NCSykes Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Currently project lead on RTP side for ClearCase & ClearQuest migration from RTP to SVL for Confidential . This work includes VOB replication and mastership changes from RTP to BOCA and BOCA to SVL. Maintain Wiki pages with migration updates & URLs.
• Now training in the administration of Rational Team Concert and providing support for IBM internal customers using RTC and Rational Requirements Manager (RQM)
• Work with IBM support groups to help internal customers
• Provide assistance to Community Source Project members with project migrations, project troubleshooting, defect queue monitoring (Tracker System)
• Provide ClearCase MultiSite support between IBM sites in Sydney, Australia, Boca Raton, FL, Austin, Texas and Raleigh, North Carolina. Raleigh is the replication site for Sydney and Boca Raton. Boca is now transitioning to SVL - Costa Mesa support group. Make sure that both sites are in sync with each other. Monitor remote sites daily and correct any site out of sync errors
• Provide Rational UCM support for customers that use UCM integration. Build & Release support, Defect tracking, ClearQuest system user administration, security compliance.
• Provide ClearCase and ClearQuest UCM (Unified Change Management) customer support for IBM sites in Bloomington IL, Boca Raton FL, Rochester NY, China, India, Ireland, The Netherlands
• Monitor the ASIC Groups ClearQuest Defect tracking system for defects and work item assignments for the development groups I support.
• Monitor the SCM Groups ClearQuest Defect tracking system for defects and work item assignments.
• Created VOB Backup & Restore Test Plan and Procedures Document for ASIC BTV development groups and for all Global Services supported SCM environments.
• Work with Tivoli Service Manager Tech Support Group for TSM processes for ASIC BTV servers group I support
• Primary support is accountable for execution and meeting customer deliverables. Assigns work/tasks to team members, works with the Project Manager and customer relations rep. The Primary ensures change management controls are in place.
• Developing Multisite VOB Backup and restore process for recommendation to Project managers and Primary Support Group admins.

Collins ConsultingConfiguration Manager

Confidential, DC

Responsibilities:

• Change Control Board Chair of the OSHA/DIT (Department of Labor IT Development Areas)
• Configuration Manager, using PVCS Version Manager for Forms and Documents repository
• Lead Configuration Manager OSHA/DIT using PVCS Tracker, Defect Tracking Tool
• Visio to Design and Diagram IT Infrastructure. This is used as a guideline when chairing Infrastructure CCB
• Provide a mechanism for accepting changes that improve the product overall while rejecting those that degrade it.
• Provide revision control and backup safety for documents and forms during their formative development.
• Facilitate changes to work products during their initial formative development while avoiding unnecessary overhead or formality.
• Allow for formal acceptance (approval) of work products after their initial formative development has been completed.
• Facilitate efficient changes to work products after their initial acceptance, recognizing that the impact of a change to a work product is dramatically different after the work product has been accepted.
• Allow all parties materially affected by proposed changes to accepted work products to assess the resource, schedule, and/or product impact of the changes.
• Allow changes to accepted work products to be proposed and evaluated, schedule and quality impact assessed, and approved or rejected into work products in a controlled manner.
• Notify interested parties on the periphery of development regarding change proposals, their assessed impact, and whether the changes were approved or rejected.
• Provide an historic trail of the development of work products, including all proposed changes.

Consultant CM Specialist

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Configuration Management Specialist assigned to the Close The Books 2004 Project. ClearCase - ClearQuest support using ClearCase UCM for Deployments
• EUC Support Specialist (End User Computing Environment) Responsible for assisting users in the use of ClearQuest for defect and change management processing. Work includes Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance for EUC / Mainframe Projects.
• Created and Maintained the Release Schedule for Major Releases (Over the course of weekends) and Minor Releases (that were performed daily and after business hours daily) Creation of MCM Project Release Calendar. Work with Project Managers and Business Units regarding the order in which projects are deployed during the release weekend.
• Working with the Business Units to agree which modules would be included in the major releases and worked with Testing and Quality Assurance groups to make sure that the modules included in each major release delivered as per requirements and were ready to be migrated to the "shadow" environment prior to the major release weekend .
• Make sure that the Shadow (Shad) environment was up and functional for all testing and troubleshooting activities
• Maintain the development "cutoff schedule" meaning that any modules that were not ready prior to the cutoff period would not be included in the major release.
• Maintain defect reports and defect information within Clear Quest Environment and to publish this report to Development, Business, and Testing/Quality Assurance Groups.
• IBM Rational technical support for ClearCase issues with various project teams
• Release report had a requirement that all of the above mentioned groups sign off on the report as published to ensure release integrity.
• Attend all release meetings as well as CCB Meetings with defect reports, progress reports and module reports. (All items that would be included in the release) The
• Have production rollback plan in place in the event the release failed for any reason. This was a precautionary measure. The mirror environment was an exact copy of the production environment, which used for 2 weeks to catch any potential problems prior to major release weekend.
• Work with the Change Control Board Chair, Quality Assurance/Testing and Development groups to make sure that only the agreed upon items would be included in each release. No exceptions.
• In the event there was a "hot" item that had to be pushed through, we would set up an emergency release with upper management (director level) signoff for approval.
• MCM - Mainframe Change Management support specialist. Responsibilities include project deployments from development and testing environments to production using MCM, Internal Freddie Mac Mainframe application.
• Maintain the MCM and ICC Change request calendars for scheduled releases.
• ClearCase and ClearQuest support and training
• Baseline development within ClearCase UCM. Deployments using ClearQuest as the tracking system for deployment ticket submissions.
• Creation of process flow diagrams using Visio. Release Documentation, Release Planning and Implementation. DCU (Data Correction Unit) processing/deployments

Darwin Partners Consultant

Confidential, NC

Responsibilities:

• Configuration Management Engineer.
• IBM Rational technical support for ClearCase issues with various project teams
• Assisting Project Task Leader, Emily Weber in the creation and management of multiple CIGNA Process procedural Documents.
• Management of The Master Project Plan and design and creation on multiple task procedural process flowcharts and the creation of procedural documentation for The Cigna Configuration Management Tool, Aldon ACMS and Aldon Affiniti. Products designed for the IBM AS/400 series Computer

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Rational ClearQuest Web Interface Rational ClearCase Web Interface Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Rational ClearQuest System Designer and Developer
• Responsible for the design, creation and maintenance of Rational ClearQuest TAC Customer Service Support Interface, using SQL Server 2000 and Rational ClearQuest. System will interface with ClearCase CM Environment
• Responsible for ClearCase upgrade of production system from Rational CC 4.2 to ClearCase 5.0. Also created test/development ClearCase system on Linux 7.2. Created ClearCase VOBs and Views in Unix System for data migration from Windows 2000 to Unix (Linux)
• Implementation of the TAC Customer Support System using SQL Server 2000 as the database engine.
• Responsible for ClearCase MultiSite implementation. System put in place to migrate CC data from Windows production environment to Linux.
• Involved in the full life cycle management of the ClearQuest Project Implementation. UCM involves the integration of ClearCase & ClearQuest.
• Developed and Maintained MS Project Schedules for the TAC Project.
• IBM Rational technical support for ClearCase issues with various project teams
• Completed the Rational ClearQuest WEB Client/Web Interface portion of the TAC database using IIS 4.0, and IIS 5.0.
• Provide training to Hatteras personnel on the new ClearQuest TAC System.
• Created presentations and training materials using MS PowerPoint 2000 for Hatteras Executive Management and Engineers.
• Created custom Crystal Reports from ClearQuest system and wrote user manual outlining procedures for extracting data from ClearQuest and importing it into MS Excel spreadsheets and Crystal Reports 8.5 databases.

Confidential

Rational ClearCase/ ClearQuest Web Interface Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include assisting in the administration of Rational ClearCase network environment, provide training on the use of ClearCase, and support Sony Ericsson engineers. Responsible also for the administration of the Sony-Ericsson distributed development processes
• Using Rational ClearCase MultiSite. Used Rational Requisite Pro for Project requirements tracking and modification / revision history of CDMA Projects, and use case management for CDMA. Tracked change history: changes on use cases, phone designs and other documents within project.
• Duties included Administration of ClearQuest Defect and Change Management System and ClearQuest Web Administration using Oracle 8i database.
• Responsible for the design, creation and maintenance of Rational ClearQuest Web Interface, the defect and change tracking system that captures and tracks all types of change, for any of the various Ericsson Projects. (Rational Test Manager)
• Trained Sony Ericsson Engineers in the use of Rational ClearQuest. My duties also included troubleshooting ClearQuest configurations and the Development and Maintenance of the ClearQuest Web Page within Sony Ericsson.
• Maintained Project Schedules using Microsoft Project. Systems Design using Visio Technical and Microsoft PowerPoint for Management presentations.
• Configured Customized reports for various phone project managers using Crystal Reports 8.5 and Built customized queries for various project managers using the Rational ClearQuest query function.
• Involved in the full life cycle management of the ClearQuest Project Implementation. Project Manager for the ClearQuest Web Interface: responsible for the design and implementation of the web version of the Defect and Change Management system.
• Performed Technical Support to various Sony-Ericsson Project Managers for ClearQuest configurations, updates and problem solving meetings with rational technical support.
• Conducted Training sessions for Sony-Ericsson Engineers on the use of the new ClearQuest system.
• Performed system diagnostics and problem resolution when engineer systems failed because of conflicts between RTM (Requirements Management system) and ClearQuest configurations. Worked closely with RTM Project Leader to ensure system cohesion.
• Performed customized configurations for various phone project engineers that used different operating systems. (Windows 2000 Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows ME). All duties of CME- Configuration Audits, Reports, CM Policy Creation & Enforcement

Confidential

Configuration Management Lead Engineer - Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for producing builds of products for use in QA and production. My duties were also to oversee change management and product configuration management, including source code change control and change reporting.
• Presented plans and recommendations to internal team and upper management (Janice Mobed, Isaac Stubbs). Worked with internal group managers to build and deliver new BuildNet and BuildSoft products.
• Maintained build system and automated build process using Wise Installer for script Maintenance. (Java Runtime Environment) JAVA .jar files incorporation in builds for QA
• Ensured proper archiving and audibility of product releases. Controlled branching and merging of the code base. Drived decisions on technical tools and processes for configuration management. Researched and improves methods of production and processes based on industry standards.
• Worked with Build & Release Engineer, Terry Muntz to deliver quality software components of BuildNet. Responsible for the creation and maintenance of BuildNet software release archives.
• Project Task Leader for Financial Systems Review, NNS Innovation Center.
• Project Task Leader for Newport News Shipbuilding Software Configuration Management Project with Rational ClearCase.
• Project Task Leader for New Attack Submarine Engineering Report Tracking System for The Department of The Navy
• Project Task Leader for CCR Tracking System Implementation. CCR (Commercial Construction Reporting) subsystem document tracking.