OBJECTIVE

Looking to continue my IT career with a company that will allow me to apply everything that I have learned and will continue to challenge me with new learning opportunities.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• IIS 7
• TFS 2010/2012/2013
• SQL 2008
• PowerShell
• Build Engineering
• Visual Studio 2010/2012/2013
• Cruise Control .NET
• TFSDeployer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst / Build Engineer

• Coordinate the efforts of multiple engineering teams to deliver new versions of each project.
• Develop deployment scripts and administer application configuration files.
• Provide technical and application guidance and support throughout the release process, including known errors and workarounds.
• Participate in high-level change management meetings and identify any potential issues and concerns that might arise.
• Work with Development Team Leads/Architects in coming up with new deployment methodologies and best practices.
• Participate and manage daily build requirements.
• Liaise between all cross-functional global team resources involved in the delivery of our application and application updates.
• Oversee a small team to ensure TFS best practices and continuous delivery practices are being utilized.

Confidential

Build and Release Engineer

• Developed and documented procedures for deploying new versions of the application to test and production environments.
• attend CCR meeting and document change .
• Followed change control process for each release create change control request,
• Managed the build process and continuous integration processes.
• Managed and deployed configuration files across all environments.
• Managed source code repository TFS branching/merging/labeling in accordance with operating procedures and industry best practices.
• Packaged and deployed builds to various test, staging and production environments.
• Completed automation and scripting of build and release activities.
• Collaborated with systems administrators to plan, provision and maintain build and test environments in support of development / test activities.
• Syncronized system level issues in production and development environments.
• Participated in meetings between Development, Operations, QA and UAT teams to

Confidential

Build Engineer Contract

• Edited and constructed PowerShell scripts to automate the build and deployment process of software between testing environments and production.
• Set up and administered the permissions for all Team Projects.
• Wrote and managed PowerShell scripts to automate administrative tasks.
• Composed deployment scripts for IIS environments, made configuration changes, and installed patches/fixes when necessary.
• Undertook tasks in TFS such as labeling, creating branches/merges, and guiding development team in case of issues.
• Guided a development team on how to use TFS and created an instructional document on how to implement version control.
• Migrated various visual source safe projects into TFS.
• Created structure for the development team and how applications are deployed.
• Created and revised custom Process Templates and Work Item templates.
• Formed PowerShell scripts to automate the .net application build process that interacted with a TFS 2010 server environment.
• Generated and documented Work Items in TFS based on defects found in testing scenarios while applying software life cycle principles.
• Setup up server with Windows 2008 RS OS, Visual Studio 2010, and Visual Studio 2012.
• Implemented a new automated build process with TFSDeployer and PowerShell.

Confidential

TFS Administrator

• Managed the TFS Deployment Architecture which included a few TFS build servers, TFS PROXY, TFS application tier, TFS reporting services server and sharepoint server.
• Created and managed the security for all Team Projects.
• Created and edited custom Process Templates and Work Item templates.
• Created new custom builds with MSbuild.
• Managed the security for TFS sharepoint and reporting services sites.
• Implemented a new automated build process with TFSDeployer and PowerShell.
• Migrated various visual source safe projects to TFS.
• Configured a new TFS 2010 collection and migrated a few team projects from TFS 2008.
• Analyzed business and system requirements, managed development of specifications to create and execute detailed test plans, and verified bug fixes.
• Added new TFS users and trained them on how to connect and work with TFS.
• Interacted with developers, system engineers, and testing teams to identify applications defects.
• Devised test plans, test cases, and test scripts against business systems to uncover system defects.
• Reported software defects and managed defect tracking and resolution.
• Generated and maintained test scripts, documented results, and reported tracked software defects found in the systems under testing.
• Conducted ad-hoc testing for solutions resulting in the detection and resolution of all open defects prior to project Go-Live.
• Created software maintenance and test environments.
• Analyzed testing procedures and recommended action to avoid quality problems
• Reported on status and progress of assignments

Confidential

QA Analyst / Build Engineer

• Applied Software Life Cycle principles.
• Managed users and permissions on a Team Foundation Server 2010 environment.
• Created and documented Work Items in TFS based on defects found in the testing scenarios.
• Helped with creating build projects with CruiseControl .NET.
• Edited and created PowerShell scripts to automate the deployment process of software between testing environments and production.
• Used tools such as Fiddler to perform QA testing on some of our websites.
• Suggested what changes could be done on a website to increase the performance.
• Worked with various developers to understand what type of QA testing needed to be performed on their respective applications and what tools needed to be used to perform the testing.
• Gained knowledge in managing websites in IIS 7 and troubleshooting various .net web applications.
• Worked with systems engineers in troubleshooting various .net connection problems with SQL databases.
• Created SQL maintenance plans to automate the daily backups of SQL databases.
• Configured .net applications in IIS 7.
• Gained knowledge of basic internet/intranet networking principles such as DNS, Firewalls, TCP.

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