Senior Associate Resume Riverwoods, IL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Results - oriented software engineer with expert technical knowledge and strong leadership skills in configuration definition, management, and release support.
Extensive operations and system administration experience in build and deployment automation scripts. Diverse industry experience in banking, retail, insurance and manufacturing. Professional expertise includes systems applications, disaster recovery planning and IT project management.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Associate

Confidential, Riverwoods, IL

Responsibilities:

Using agile workflow, installed and configured Github Enterprise, Jenkins Enterprise, and Nexus across multiple nodes in two DFS data centers creating high availability failover capability between data centers.
Under tight deadlines, converted Github Enterprise, Jenkins Enterprise, and Nexus from CSC pilot data center to DFS datacenter without interrupting development activities.
Defined SOX compliant release candidate process using Jenkins to bridge builds between Jenkins and Clearcase, laying ground work for continuous delivery pipeline to production.

Release Manager

Confidential, Riverwoods, IL

Responsibilities:

Created and promoted over 200 ServiceNow Change tickets and implementation plans to configure the middleware software tier of Discover Bank.
Monitored 9 dress rehearsal production installations of 8 web services for Banking Interfaces team, coordinating across multiple areas to perform validation and status tracking.
Created batch version control stripe reports using Perl to track multiple baselines and provide visibility for offshore coding activities.

Senior Applications Administrator

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

Automated Java build process for Item Maintenance and Product Introduction Suite of applications using Perl and Ant, shortening build times by 80%.
Assisted in the implementation of approximately 50 server machines from Sun OS to Linux.
Wrote deployment automation scripts to revamp the staging of executables and to provide an audit trail from QA through production.

Operations Management Engineer

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Responsibilities:

Migrated Sears.com from Clearcase to Subversion; wrote SVN hooks in Perl to manage permissions.
Maintained and managed all source code for the entire Sears Holdings infrastructure.
Automated continuous delivery process for Clearcase and Subversion builds via help desk intranet.
Converted Sears internal helpdesk to ITIL standards under tight deadline. Implemented Axios ITSM change management system using agile methods, defined workflows and configured external gateways to provide near real time monitoring of change and incident events

Contractor

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

Employed Sony/Ericsson SDE and CME internal configuration management development tools to perform cell phone O/S builds, deployed automated builds, and smoke-tested phones.

Consultant

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

Coordinated and defined production, QA, and UAT baselines for legacy Paine Webber Super Bond Suite of applications, greatly reducing production defect issues, while providing management with parallel defect reporting and forecasting.
Interfaced with Unix and Windows networking and hardware teams to re-architect Clearcase environment, doubling network throughput while cutting build times by 50%.