SUMMARY

• IT experience in Configuration Management (CM), IBM Rational ClearCase, UCM, GIT, SVN, CVS, TFS ( Team Foundation Server), ClearQuest, Rational Team concert, Rational Quality Manager, Collaboration Life cycle Management ( CLM ),IBM Ubuild, IBM Udeploy and Build & deploy; across various industry verticals.
• Experience in Release Engineering to design and implement release process.
• Strong knowledge and understanding in Release Management and Software Configuration Management
• Vast experience in designing and implementing build and deployment procedures
• Strong experience in automation of builds and release process
• Experience in writing build scripts like make, Perl, and Shell as required for automating the build process.
• Very strong in working on Multisite and MultiOS.
• IBM Certified Administrator - - Rational ClearCase Windows
• Extensive experience with Version control tools, Defect Tracking tools, Reporting Tools and Jazz tools.
• I have work experience on installing and configuration of the various version control tools like Rational ClearCase, SVN, CVS,TFS and GIT.
• In-depth experience on source code branching and merging strategies
• Extensive work experience on setting up Jenkin build tool and then configuration with SVN and GIT for automation builds.
• Vast experience in designing and implementing build and deployment procedures
• Strong experience in automation of builds and release process
• Experience in writing build scripts like Make, Perl, and Shell as required for automating the build process
• Very strong in working on MultiSite and MultiOS
• Extensive work experience with Jazz tools (Rational Team concerts (RTC), Rational Quality management (RQM), Collaboration life cycle management (CLM), Rational Focal Point, Rational Insight, Rational Asset Manager) administration.
• Extensive work experience with Reporting tool (Rational Insight, IBM Cognos) administration.
• Managing and configuration experience on Builds using RTC and Build tool Kit.
• Experts in setting up projects, importing process templates, user management, License management for all Rational products.
• Experience on setting up IBM DB2 database server, creating databases, exporting and importing the data from one DB to another DB.
• Work experience on DB2 database offline and online backup and restore.
• Instance creation in IBM DB2.
• Experts in Creating Extract Transfer and Load (ETL) Jobs in Rational Insight to gather the data from other Rational products (RTC, RQM, CLM).
• Scripting experience on Perl, shell and ANT.
• Configuration of Build using ANT and Maven.
• Extensive work experience on version control tool migration, like CVS to SVN, Clearcase to RTC.
• Expert in integrating the various tools. RTC, RQM, RRC with Rational Insight and ClearCase with ClearQuest.
• Expert in installing, upgrading and applying the fix/ifix, creating clusters, managing the nodes, deploying the applications, enabling the security on IBM WebSphere.
• Expert in setting up the DevOps tools (Udeploy and Ubuilds) like installation, configuration, creating the builds and deploying into various web applications using Ubuild and Udeploy.
• Expert in resolving day to day issue faced by developers on all rational products and open source tools.
• The ability to work under pressure and in an environment of constantly changing priorities.
• Good communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Version Control ( SCM ) and Change management Tools: Rational ClearCase, CVS, SVN, perforce, GIT, TFS and Rational ClearQuest

Requirement management Tool: Rational Requisite Pro

Jazz Tools: Rational Insight, Rational Team concert (RTC), Rational Quality Management (RQM), Rational Focal point, Rational Appscan and Collaborative lifecycle management (CLM).

Databases: MS SQL server, IBM DB2, Oracle

WebServer: Websphere ( WAS), Weblogic, Jboss and IIS

Scripting: Perl, ANT and Shell

OS: Windows, AIX and Linux

Build: Build Tool Kit for RTC, Jenkins, IBM UBuild, IBM Udeploy and Knowledge on Build forge, MAVEN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Southbury, Connecticut

Snr Application Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of the development team requirements and supporting them on New Environment Creation for new Projects.
• As a Build & Deployment Team member, taking the ownership of the Weekly Release & Day-to-Day build activities and also mentoring/helping to other team member/s by giving suggestions and sharing my knowledge and experience.
• Provided L2 technical support for IBM internal and external projects to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery using ANT, Maven, uBuild, and uDeploy.
• Define different environments like DEV, TEST, CERT, and PROD in uDeploy with limited access to development teams on controlled environments
• Integration of uDeploy tool with WebSphere Application and Portal servers to deploy the Enterprise and Web Applications
• Maintenance of legacy applications configured in Jenkins for builds and deployments
• Continuous technical support for multiple projects (> 20) for build and deployments
• Coordinating multiple vendor teams, cross geographical teams to address outstanding issues and working till the closure
• Creating new build definition based on the requirement.
• Developed several ANT scripts to automate the build process with Rational Team Concert builds
• Configured builds to run scheduled full builds, and automated the deployment of portal applications
• Involved in discussions related to enabling parallel release development in RTC Source Control
• Created RTC Streams, Components, Flow targets, Build engines, Build Definitions
• Promoted build packages on different environments Development, Testing, SIT, and QAT
• Participated in daily Scrum stand up calls
• Monitoring the build alerts and acting on same, so that ensured more than 99.95% availability with out fail.
• Expertise on fixing the Build & Deployment failures
• Modifying existing scripts to implement new policies
• Responsible to migrate the ANT script (Build.xml) to JBOSS, which is written for WAS.
• Written scripts for deployment process in various environment using shell script.
• Verifying and documenting software build content
• Managing software releases
• Installation of uBuild, uDeploy, and uRelease servers and agents on multi OS
• Creating and setting up projects in uBuild and uDeploy.
• Configure Build process in uBuild to configure multiple source control tools like SVN, Rational ClearCase and RTC.
• Migrated the source code from CVS to SVN along with history.
• Changed the build script to compatible for SVN.
• Installed and configured the Jenkins tool for automation of builds.
• Implemented version control tools like GIT, SVN, CVS, TFS and ClearCase server and configured.
• Enable the user authentication and implemented the security level on all version control tools ( CC, SVN, CVS, TFS and GIT ).
• Co-ordinated with backup team to ensure the daily and weekly full backup happening property or not.
• Prepared the documents for user level activity for checkout, staging and committing the changes to GIT repository and SVN repository.
• Creating the repository, team projects in all version control tools ( CC, SVN, CVS, TFS and GIT ).
• Done the Enhancement of the process templates in ( Jazz Tools, ClearQuest and TFS ) as per the business requirement.
• Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements
• Completed installation/migration/deployment/trouble-shooting/tuning of enterprise application using Web Sphere application server 8.5,8.0 and 6.1
• Expertise in configuration, installing, managing and troubleshooting Web Sphere application server on AIX/Windows environment.
• Created and configured the Profile on WAS
• Done the Cluster configuration on WAS
• I have done RTC ear file deployment on WAS and configured the RTC application. Setting the heap size and Virtual hosts.
• Enabled the global security on WAS
• Done the LDAP configuration on WAS
• Enabled the federated repository settings on WAS.
• Managed the Builds and agents using RTC.
• Managed the source control on RTC
• Done source code migration from CMVC to RTC.
• Done the source code migration from ClearCase to RTC.
• Implemented the version control using RTC.
• Written scripts using shell script on UNIX to automate routine task (User creation, backup data, migration of ClearCase VOBs.
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project.
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design Configuration Management documents,
• Responsible for Configuration Management and Release Management at IBM end.
• Work with IBM Project Managers, client CM and client management team to devise CM strategies, tools, processes and plans
• Responsible for Setup, Administration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Rational Insight - exporting / importing data into data ware house database to generate the business need reports and Server setup etc.
• Administration and support of Unified Change Management (UCM) - UCM Project creation, managing streams, policies, baselines, deliver/rebase operations
• Authoring of CM plan, release management plan and training documents
• Development of Perl scripts for task automation and implementation of ClearCase controls
• Upgraded the customer plugins for Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality managers.
• Performance tuning for ClearCase Remote Client to achieve performance targets
• Integrated RTC, RQM and RRC
• Successfully migrated the data from ClearCase, ReqPro to RTC and RQM.

Environment: IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational ReqPro, IBM Rational Quality Manager, IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational Focal point, IBM Rational Doors administration, Web Sphere Application, IBM Cognos and IBM Rational Insight in Windows and AIX, ANT script, Jenkins, Linux, SVN and GIT

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, l implementation and managing of technical services based on business requirement with defined service level agreement (SLA).
• Resource management
• Time & Effort planning for setting up/ enhancement / migration / maintenance of a software Configuration Management system.\
• Procurement of necessary h/w, s/w for setting up a new software configuration management system as well upgrading an existing software configuration management system.
• Design, implementation and maintenance of Base ClearCase/UCM configuration management system to meet customer requirements.
• Data migrated from India to US servers through Multisite using Rational ClearCase tool and monitored synchronize of the daily packets.
• Ensure data availability in version control (ClearCase) and Defect tracking (ClearQuest) for India offshore team and AMC team.
• Automated daily activities, creating SVN/CVS repository using Perl script.
• Developed Bug Tracking tool in Bugzilla using Perl API scripts.
• Conducting and facing CM and other process audits to ensure proper implementation of CM policies and processes. Follow-up and close non-conformances, implement suggestions, if any
• Administration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of ClearQuest - Databases, Schemas, Queries, User administration, Client and Server setup, Web access setup.
• Conducted customized training on Software Configuration Management concepts and the Rational Tools usage for developer, Team Leads, Project Manager and ClearCase Administrators.
• Communicate activities/progress to project managers, Team Lead and clients Contribution to the Rational practice in terms of grooming ClearCase administrators, taking interviews, authoring documents and plans, providing external support to other projects

Environment: IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational ClearQuest, Bugzilla, CVS, SVN, Perforce, My SQL and MS-SQL Server in Windows

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented several project specific requirement flow on Defect tracking, Change Management, Test Case and Test Plan in IBM Rational ClearQuest.
• Customizing the schema based on the customer requirement.
• Coordinated with backup team to ensure regular base full back up of ClearCase and ClearQuest data.
• Ensure that versioning of all artifact in IBM Rational ClearCase tool properly and delivered accurate version of code to customer when need.
• Responsible for Setup, Administration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of CM tools - ClearCase / Multisite - Views, VOBs, Client and Server setup, Licenses, Disk usage etc.
• Responsible for monitoring status of Multisite VOBs and take corrective action for synchronization issues.
• Administration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of ClearQuest / Multisite - Databases, Schemas, Queries, User administration, Client and Server setup, Licenses, Disk usage etc.
• Worked with the rational team to support few clients and internal projects, on IBM Rational ClearCase, IBM Rational ClearQuest and IBM Rational RequisitePro.
• Imparting ClearCase, ClearQuest and CM Trainings to development teams

Environment: Windows2003, ClearCase, ClearQuest, ReqPro, Bugzilla and Perl API.

Confidential

Member System Administration

Responsibilities:

• Continued support for production issues as third level production support specialist.
• Investigated causes of SLA non-conformance for high priority tickets
• Supported user community in defining Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Provided and documented Root cause analysis for SEV 1 tickets.
• Defined specifications and integrated between rational tools like ClearCase and ClearQuest, ClearQuest and ReqPro based on customer requirements using Rational Tools.
• Developed License Utilization reporting using Perl script and implemented successfully to view the utilization report for all Rational products Licenses ( ClearCase, ClearQuest, ReqPro )
• Provided technical and investigative support for Rational users on interfaces, defects, change requests, debugging issues, Rational server upgrades and adhoc report requirements
• Key Project implementations as Member System Administration.
• IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest server setup for major client Agilent.

Environment: IBM Rational Tools (ClearCase and ClearQuest) and MS-SQL server

Confidential

Member Project Trainee

Responsibilities:

• Understand the requirement of CMC with respect to configuration management.
• Enforce of Configuration Management policies through ClearCase triggers written in Perl.
• Interface with Rational for reporting bugs / Issues in ClearCase
• Study of Requirement Specifications and code of the modules identified for testing.
• Test case prepared, reviewed, executed for test case Definition. Results were analyzed using CANTATA Test Report file.
• Writing Clarification OR Amendment (CA) and observation documents.
• Prepared project plan and estimated the time for delivery of test case. Coated pricing for each build of code to TRW-UK client.
• Defect were tracked, Reviewed, analyzed using IPMS Tool.

Environment: CANTATA and IBM Rational ClearCase