Release Engineer Oakland, CA

OBJECTIVE:

Use my 15 years experience in IT to provide value to my clients and always be embracing new cutting - edge technologies such as Docker, AWS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Source Control: Git/SVN/PerforceBuild Automation Jenkins/Maven/ANT/MSBuildConfiguration Management Chef/Vagrant/Capistrano/Bash scripts

Virtualization: AWS,Vmware,VirtualBox/DigitalOcean/GoGrid

OS: CentOs/RHL/Windows Server

Atlassian Suite: Jira /Confluence/ Crucible

App Containers: Docker,Jboss/Tomcat/Websphere

Languages: Python,Ruby,Perl,Java,VBS/VBA,SQL,Batch/shell,Powershell, C#

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

Support and improve SDLC and manage deployments to production website.
‘Dockerized’ the Evaluation Viewer application for my team
Improved build times by 15%
Managed and improved Jenkins jobs in pipeline. Extended capistrano scripts to interact with Jira API add release tag for each release.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

DevOps support and guidance for Confidential (agile startup mentality in enterprise environment)
Reduced dev feedback-cycle: 8h to 20m for core deployments.
Support ci & cd pipelines, git/gerrit issues
Administered (~20 vservers: Centos, RHL)
Deployments of SOA artifacts to app containers (jboss, websphere) in cloud(s) and troubleshoot problems.
Promptly addressed defects within in-house self deploy service webapp. (fontend: python/django, backend: chef/ruby)

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Sr. Installation Engineer

Responsibilities:

Extended InstallAnywhere project to provide Java ‘custom code:
Database transforms using SQL migration scripts
Subnet aware installs: to provide ‘clustering’ master/slave installs on network.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Linux/Windows Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

Automated what was a 2hr SOA J2EE deployment into a 5min ‘one-click’ remote deployment using a blend of C#/Bash Scripts/Powershell to distributed testbed environments.
Authored a ‘Server Prep’ script to install all prerequisites needed to stand up CentOS boxes running mod jk load balanced Tomcat instances.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

S CM Build Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

Revamped a loose set of build scripts into a fully automated build plan with failure alerts that handled: software build, publish tasks, installer creation, test scripts, and automated release to QA with email notification of build details.
Maintained Perforce branches and integrations for developer teams. Coordinated fixes with appropriate developer(s) when conflicts during merging/integrations as well as compilation errors were discovered via continuous integration.
Maintained and upgraded Jira issue tracker, Crucible code review tool along with in-house ‘Seagull Licensing Server’.
Administered .msi packages for deployment of multiple applications and web apps used in (36) unique and private labeled installers using Installshield Premier.
Documented features/changes/fixes in Jira, Confluence as well as blogging.
Developed framework for automating installer testing to ensure only quality products are delivered to QA testers: revert vmware, automate attended install using AutoIT scripts, run c# validation tests, report results via web/email.
Authored scripts to assist in RTM procedures: .ISO creation, Populate CD cover-art with version info, email notifications to release managers, upload to ftp, archive source code.

Confidential, Pacific NW, WA

Tech Support Tier I-II / QA / Software Developer

Responsibilities:

Technical support rep with consistent high marks; promoted.
Performed Quality Assurance testing on software, communicated defects to developers; promoted.
Created ASP webpage to advertise ISP dial-up numbers from SQL Server backend. Scraped nightly from UUNet feed.
Created and executed disaster recovery plan for web server/DB.

Confidential, Tacoma, WA

IBM AIX Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

Administered 25 node network of IBM 6150 RT/RS-6000’s and accompanying hardware: terminals, barcode scanners, digitizers, “automated fingerprint acquisition hardware” (AFIS - used by law enforcement and foreign governments).
Responsible for monitoring and troubleshooting proprietary software. Performed maintenance and coordinated repairs.
Interacted with IBM Informix DB using I-SQL.
Participated in upgrading from IBM tap network based LAN to cat-5.