SUMMARY:

• 15 years of software industry experience in Release and build engineering, Configuration, System design & development, Release management, for effective delivery of Projects, primarily in the Banking and Finance industry.
• Worked extensively with Data Center Automation tools like BladeLogic Server Automation, HP - Server Automation, SCCM, Wise Package Studio, and Install Shield Admin Studio.
• Experienced in build continuous integration tools like SSP, WIX, Jenkins; versioning tools like Perforce, Sub Version, GIT, and VSS
• Experience in large scale Enterprise Environment; managed release activities on ~33,000 servers in all environments from DEV, SAT, UAT, PROD and DR.
• Experienced in planning and coordinating cross functional teams during the release phases.
• Good knowledge on issue/problem reporting or managing systems like ServiceNow, HP Service Center, Remedy, JIRA, AIM, SharePoint WIKI, and Request.
• Focused to meet business expectation (SLA, KPI) and generate reports for senior management on monthly basis.
• Ability to work independently and/or with teams and manage business needs with a delivery focused work approach.
• Coordinated and managed upgrade of HPSA, BladeLogic and satellite infrastructure.
• Actively involved in configuration, upgrading, trouble shooting, performance tuning, deploy, and RBAC Administration.
• Created complex and multi-platform supported BLPackages, NSH Scripts, Jobs, Snapshots, and Audits.
• Instrumental in building and supporting “SSP - Self Service Packaging and deployment” CLI’s using BladeLogic Web API’s and Python 2.8. (Build continues integration tool developed in Python). Developed using best practices from Scrum and Agile model.
• Involved in propagating SSP CLI’s to In-House application development team.
• Remediated NetCool alerts via NSH script; implemented estate wide infrastructure patching.
• Supported BL agent over 33,000 servers (RHEL, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX) etc…
• Created housekeeping jobs to enhance BladeLogic infrastructure HA.
• Performed regular application maintenance, stress test, disaster recovery tests, audits, and compliance.
• Architecting software/RPM packaging frameworks and defining corporate packaging standards, workflows for packaging, QA, verification procedures, and deployment strategies for application teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automation Tool: BMC BladeLogic Server Automation 8.x, NSH, HP SA 9.x, SCCM 2007, Wise Package Studio, Install Shield Admin Studio

Operating System: Linux, Solaris, Windows

Scripting Languages: Python, Shell, Bash, VB Scripting

Database: Oracle, SQL, PL-SQL

Other Tools: RHN, RPM, WinSCP, SFTP, ORCA, WIX, Putty, Notepad++, JIRA, Microsoft Sharepoint 2007/2010, WIKI, ServiceNow, HP Service Center, Remedy, JIRA, AIM, SharePoint WIKI, and Request.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Build and Release engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with development team to understand the Release, Build and Deployment process; find the gaps that causes delay in releases. Define Roadmap for Process Improvement.
• Worked closely with Unix SSP development team to automate build and release process for DEV and PROD environments using GIT and Jenkins
• Responsible for release branches in GIT “Major, Minor, and Patch release”
• Instrumental in creating documentation for build, install and testing, for future sprint release
• Responsible for troubleshooting/working with the application & infrastructure teams to resolve any build and deployment issues.

Environment: s: UNIX, Linux, Solaris, AIX

Languages: Python, UNIX Shell Scripting, NSH Scripting

Tools: BladeLogic, GIT, Jenkins, Oracle 11g, Putty, Notepad++, ServiceNow, JIRA, and SharePoint

Confidential

Developer, SCM, Build and Deploy Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Job Runner auto remediation tool using Python, Bladelogic API, and Oracle 11g. This tool calls BL Job to remediate system events. Effective in saving ~7 man hours/ per day. This job runs as a process; reads netcool events and fix the errors (TSM agent restart, fix standard TSM errors, logrotation errors, etc)
• Software configuration was managed using GIT and build was managed using Jenkins
• Responsible for release braches in GIT “Major, Minor, and Patch release”
• Instrumental in creating documentation for build, install and testing, to support future sprint releases.

Environment: s: UNIX, Linux, Solaris, AIX

Languages: Python, UNIX Shell Scripting, NSH Scripting

Tools: BladeLogic, GIT, Jenkins, Oracle 11g, Putty, Not

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Being part of g lobal team, I used to manage BladeLogic, SSP, and YUM infrastructure related incidents / escalations during AMER shift.
• Automate/ support BLPackage and deploy enterprise related application on entire Linux estate (33,000 Servers - UNIX, Linux, AIX, Solaris) ( E.g: Galaxy, Ganglia, Nimbus, mTree, Oracle feature enable)
• Generate estate compliance scan reports and build remediation jobs to close audit findings/ breaches.
• Created NSH scripts to support build automation via BL job
• Expert in RPM packaging and supported YUM infra. Created more than 400 RPM’s.
• Managed migration from HPSA to BladeLogic and decommissioned HPSA infrastructure.
• Worked as Release manager for Integrated and Independent releases.
• Experienced in ITIL Incident/change management process. (ServiceNow, HPSC)

Environment: s: UNIX, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows

Languages: Python, UNIX Shell Scripting, VB Scripting, NSH Scripting

Tools: BladeLogic, GIT, Jenkins, Chef, HPSA, Oracle 11g, RPM, RHN, WinSCP, SFTP, WIX, Putty, Notepad++, ServiceNow, JIRA, SharePoint WIKI, and Request.

Confidential

Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managing and supporting HP Server Automation toolset which is used to manage ~15,000 Linux and Solaris servers in a multi master Mesh environment
• Installing and Maintaining HPSA Satellite servers in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Johannesburg and Geneva Data Center for better resiliency
• Creating Device Groups and Managing servers with Opsware - Global File System (OGFS)
• Managing Audit, Software and Patch Policies via HPSA and ensuring Compliance.
• Audit and Compliance report generation through Server Automation Reporter
• Managing User Permissions, Setting and delegation folder permissions
• Ensuring availability of HP Server Automation agents on 15000 clients
• Scripting the migration from Opsware to HPSA and coordinate decommission of Opsware infrastructure

Environment: s: UNIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows

Languages: Python, UNIX Shell Scripting, VB Scripting

Tools: HPSA, Oracle 10, RPM, RHN, WinSCP, SFTP, WIX, Putty, HP Service Center, JIRA, SharePoint WIKI, and Request.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Subject matter expertise in release engineering.
• Repackage applications using Install Shield Admin Studio 8.0 adhering to Bank Release Management standards.
• The role included identifying solutions to packaging related problems on various issues involving Device Drivers, writing custom actions using VB Script.
• Created/ QA’d 500+ MSI packages.
• Specialist in Device Drivers and Kernel Services
• Developed tool for Quality Assurance (QA) in VB 6.0
• Developed VB based transform injector tool to expedite MSI repackaging process.

Environment: s: Windows XP/ Windows Server 2000

Languages: VB 6.0, VB Scripting, PL SQL

Tools: SCCM 2007, Wise Package Studio, Install Shield Admin Studio, WIX, HP Service Center, JIRA, SharePoint WIKI, ORCA, VM Ware, VM Center, Desktop-Share, Norton Ghost, beyond compare, and Remedy.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Subject matter expertise in release engineering. Repackage applications using Install Shield Admin Studio 8.0 adhering to Bank Release Management standards.
• The role included identifying solutions to packaging related problems on various issues involving Device Drivers, writing custom actions using VB Script.

Environment: s: Windows XP/ Windows Server 2000

Languages: VB 6.0, VB Scripting

Tools: Wise Package Studio, Install Shield Admin Studio, SMS, WIX, HP Service Center, JIRA, SharePoint WIKI, ORCA, VM Ware, VM Center, Norton Ghost, beyond compare, and Remedy.

Confidential

MSI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Extending support in Release Management; Application packaging and deployment
• Adhering to Confidential Bank Release Management standards. Creating MSI, MST
• Created Deployment scripts in VB; support SMS deployment
• Problem Solver, identifying solutions to packaging related problems.
• Specialist in Device Drivers and Kernel Services
• Developed Quality Assurance (QA) tool in VB 6.0

Environment: s: Windows XP/ Windows Server 2000

Languages: VB 6.0, VB Scripting, PL SQL

Tools: SMS, Wise Package Studio, Install Shield Admin Studio, SharePoint, ORCA, VM Ware, Norton Ghost, and beyond compare