SUMMARY:

• 11+ years of experience as a Release Manager and Confidential Administrator onsite and offshore with strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to both user support and administration teams. Highly motivated and dedicated individual with a strong work ethic, have worked within a team also an individual contributor.
• Completed migration for WAS 6.1 to WAS 8.5 in Confidential
• Successfully completed transition for Credit Suisse from onsite and set up a team in offshore.
• Completed migration for Royal Mail group for refreshing data from production server.
• Received Best campus recruit award for the year 2007
• I have handled the datacenter set up for Confidential in Confidential Pharmaceuticals.
• Also I have handled migration in Confidential Pharmaceuticals for Confidential to SAP.
• Currently handling DEVOPS intiatives (GIT HUB, XLdeploy,Jenkins)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Ticketing Tools: Remedy, Service Now, ITSM 6 & 7, PTS, change management and Lotus notes.

Operating System: Windows98, Windows 2000/2003,Windows XP/Vista, MAC,OS/ Confidential, OS/390

Database Tools: Oracle,SQL,DB2

Monitoring tools: Confidential Monitoring, Robot Alert Monitoring tool, BMC alert monitoring, Confidential .

Middleware technology: Websphere, MQ Series, Confidential, Mainframe.

Process Management: Process Reviews, Process Documentation,Process Improvement Plans Training Plan

Service Delivery & Operations Management: Metrics Measurement & Review,Metrics Reporting Client support Management,BCP (Business Continuity Plan),ITIL Frame work, Project Transition, Product Management, End to End Support,Remote Infrastructure Management, Datacenter Operations, SLA / SLO, Disaster Recovery, Root Cause Analysis.

Configuration Mangement Tools: TFS (2010 and 2015), GIT,Rabbit MQ.

Security Tools: IBM Appscan, Veracode, Veracodegreenlight.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Release - Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working with migration WAS upgrade project from WAS 6.1 to WAS 8.5.
• Working with migration for sharepoint for Confidential workspace.
• Working as production run representative (finalizing non - functional scope requirement, working on high level deployment requirement, providing project estimates, detailed deployment plan from production perspective and ensuring and coordinating with various teams for deployment into production.
• Working with TFS and JIRA on merge and build process.
• Plan and Manage all release-related activities
• Working closely with Dev, QA,PROD and change management for the planning, managing and implementation of releases
• Coordinating and publishing deployment and release schedules with all stakeholders
• Ensuring all the issues, dependencies, and risks are identified, understood, and resolved
• Leading and coordinating the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists
• Improvising the release management process for Daily and Monthly release .
• Manage change control processes for the releases
• Coordinating with DevOps team for incident management and resolution
• DEV-OPS pipeline is in progress so working on various intiatives like implementating and understating the ask for the team (JIRA, GIT, Jenkins and XL Deploy Release Automation tool)
• We are using currently Jenkins for our front end application which is Adobe experience manager and we are in progress of implementing the same for our end .net application.
• Once the code is merged and deployed in our Main branch for all the lower environment and Production we have configured Jenkins Jobs which will deploy the code.
• If anywhere Jenkins Jobs fails, Restarting job, analyzing logs, making sure the code has got staged in nexus server all these are BAU activites we are performing on Jenkins .
• Currently we are integrating GIT with Jenkins .
• Designed and implemented the data center Environment( Confidential creation and OS upgrade) .
• Project planning and Co-ordination with offshore and Onsite Teams
• Co-ordination between various Teams (Oracle DBA, MQ Series,Windows Cognos MI)
• Handled Infrastructure related issues Like Capacity planning with the project capacity team to ensure optimum CPU Utilization and Confidential capacity Uplift
• Worked as a single point of contact between Stakeholders, Various development Project and Technical teams..
• Worked with Infrastructure and other technical teams to create new Testing environments that were later loaned to Project teams for development purpose
• Configured and tested performance, scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery for cloud based servers
• Deploying objects on webspehere using aldon change management
• Worked with MQ channel series

Confidential

Release - Manager

Responsibilities:

• System and production Environment, Process documentation, Incident, Change and Release Management and Datacenter Activities.
• Job administration - Batch scheduling, changing job attributes, checking job logs, reactive and dependent jobs
• Backup & Restore with OS/400 and with BRMS/400
• Robot Job Scheduler Application for AS/400
• Worked with Journals & Journal receivers.
• Monitoring system performance and usage
• Create performance report charts for iSeries accounts
• Handling Tape library Environment
• Worked with LAN, WAN, Switches, Routers and network security
• Worked with FTP log using Alliance
• Restoration of object, mail files and save files
• Worked with Fiber optic cables, Optic cables and Confidential ’s
• Worked with Spool files / FTP the Files
• Worked with datasets.
• Worked with User Profiles, Group Profiles & Authorization List
• Worked with for Confidential Compliance
• Worked with Run Query
• Worked with checking Temperature of the datacenter for cooling of the server.
• Worked with Iron mountain in sending Tapes once backup is done for retention and archival
• Raising PMR with IBM and getting disk drive changed, tape units changed.
• Working with Confidential
• Device configurations for Confidential drives, Tape drives, Operations Console, Remote Printers, Lines and controllers, Optical libraries
• Installation of Confidential (individual, hiper, cumulative, group Confidential )
• Job administration - Batch scheduling, changing job attributes, checking job logs, reactive and dependent jobs
• Backup & Restore with OS/400 and with BRMS/400
• Robot Job Scheduler Application for AS/400
• Worked with Journals & Journal receivers
• Creating Subsystems and Job descriptions.
• Monitoring system performance and usage
• Create performance report charts for iSeries accounts
• Handling Tape library Environment
• Handling with Confidential and Aldon change management
• Deploying objects on WebSphere using aldon change management
• Worked with MQ channel series
• Worked with FTP log using Alliance
• Restoration of object, mail files and save files
• Worked with Spool files / FTP the Files
• Worked with IBM fix central, Ordering PTF, OS and Cover Letters.
• Worked with User Profiles, Group Profiles & Authorization List

Confidential Release - Manager

Responsibilities:

• Device configurations for Confidential drives, Tape drives, Operations Console, Remote Printers, Lines and controllers, Optical libraries
• Network configuration with TCP/IP & SNA
• Installation of Confidential (individual, hiper, cumulative, group Confidential )
• Installation of OS (V5R4 - V5R6)
• Job administration - Batch scheduling, changing job attributes, checking job logs, reactive and dependent jobs
• Backup & Restore with OS/400 and with BRMS/400
• Lotus Domino Backup & Restore with BRMS/400
• Robot Job Scheduler Application for AS/400
• Worked with Journals & Journal receivers
• Creating Subsystems and Job descriptions.
• Monitoring system performance and usage
• Worked with LPARs.
• Worked with Fiber optic cables, Optic cables and Confidential ’s
• Create performance report charts for iSeries accounts
• Handling Tape library Environment
• Handling with Confidential and Aldon change management
• Deploying objects on WebSphere using aldon change management
• Worked with MQ channel series
• Worked with FTP log using Alliance
• Restoration of object, mail files and save files
• Performing switch over
• Worked with Spool files / FTP the Files
• Worked with datasets.
• Worked with IBM fix central, Ordering PTF, OS and Cover Letters.
• Worked with User Profiles, Group Profiles & Authorization List
• Worked with Confidential Compliance
• Worked with Run Query