SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience in Financial, Insurance, Health and Logistics projects and environments in all phases of Web based and Client/Server applications in Release management.
• Knowledge and expertise in every phase of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), and QALC (Quality Assurance Life Cycle).
• Experience with and thorough understanding of automated implementation/deployment of a cloud based infrastructure (Web apps, Application Service Environments, firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security, AD, DNS etc.)
• Experience in using bug tracking systems like JIRA, Remedy, HP Quality Center and IBM Clear Quest. • Proficient in tracing complex build problems, release issues and environment issues in a multi - component environment
• Experience as a Build and Release Engineering in automating, building, deploying, and releasing of code from one environment to other environment.
• Experience in working on source controller tools like Subversion (SVN), CVS, IBM Clear case, Perforce, and GIT.
• Good experience in automated deployment tool Nolio.
• Extensive experience using MAVEN and ANT as a Build Tool for the building of deployable artifacts (war & ear) from source code.
• Extensively worked on Hudson, Jenkins, Docker, Team City and Buildforge for continuous integration and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.
• Expertise in Team Foundation Server (TFS) … & 2008 Administration Included Project Administration, Users, Groups, Permissions and Security management, Notification and Trigger, Data Tier, Proxy.
• Expert in deploying the code trough web application servers like Web Sphere/Web Logic/ Apache Tomcat/ JBOSS.
• Expertise in Querying RDBMS such as Oracle and MY SQL by using SQL for Data integrity.
• Ability in development and execution of XML, Shell Scripts and Perl Scripts.
• Efficient in working closely with teams to ensure high quality and timely delivery of builds and releases.
• Worked on Report Creation from TFS using SQL Server Reporting Services, Excel Reporting From WorkItem Query and SharePoint Dashboard
• Excellent experience in documenting and automating the build and release process.
• Ability in managing all aspects of the software configuration management process including code compilation, packaging / deployment / release methodology, and application configurations. Used configuration management tools Chef, Puppet, and CF Engine.
• Using ANT, Puppet/ Chef Scripts with Ivy to build the application and deploy.
• Created Continuous Build Process using Jenkins as Continuous integration tool.
• Developed Windows Power shell script to automate setting of user credentials and activation
• Windows Helping the Project team to get transformed to Scrum methodology using TFS 2012.
• Implemented quality release of Applications and solutions for Delivery Manager.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows, UNIX, LINUX (RHEL).

Versioning Tools: CVS, Subversion, Clear case, Git, Perforce and Team Foundation Server(TFS) Build Tools Build Forge, Cruise Control,AWS, Docker,Chef,Puppet, Hudson, ANT, MAVEN and Jenkins Languages C, Perl scripting, Shell scripting,BASH, SQL, Java/J2EE.

Web Technologies: Servlets, JDBC, JSP, HTML, Java Script, XML.

Web servers: Web logic, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS.

RDBMS: Oracle, MY SQL, DB2.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Panama City, FL

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Devops Engineer for 6 project teams that involved different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases.
• Developed and implemented Software Release Management strategies for various applications according to the agile process.
• Participated in weekly release meetings with Technology stakeholders to identify and mitigate potential risks associated with the releases.
• Extensive exposure to Configuration Management policies and practices with regards to SDLC; along with automation of scripting using BASH/Shell, Perl scripting.
• Expert in performance monitoring tools like LASS, AWS cloud watch and stack driver
• Extensive experience in using Continuous Integration tools like Cruise Control, Build Forge, and Hudson.
• Experience with Visual Studio Build Professional, NANT, MSBUILD.
• Involved in defining documenting and maintaining code deployment pilot automation project documents.
• Installed and configured Anthill Pro for Automating Deployments and providing a complete automation solution.
• Created continuous integration system using Ant, Jenkins, Puppet full automation, Continuous Integration, faster and flawless deployments.
• Build Results are managed in Anthill Pro and deployed using workflows in Anthill Pro.
• Presented on View Object pattern in Web Application Automation C#, Ruby, Rake, Power shell, Selenium, Team City.
• Used Jenkins for enterprise scale infrastructure configuration and application deployments.
• Used configuration management tools Chef, Puppet, and CF Engine.
• Using ANT, Puppet/ Chef Scripts with Ivy to build the application and deploy.
• Created Continuous Build Process using Jenkins as Continuous integration tool.
• Developed Windows Power shell script to automate setting of user credentials and activation of • Windows Helping the Project team to get transformed to Scrum methodology using TFS 2012.
• Implemented quality release of Applications and solutions for Delivery Manager.
• Hands on Exposure on TFS Version Control, VSS, SVN.
• Migrated Projects from VSS to TFS 2012 with History
• Imported and managed multiple corporate applications in Subversion (SVN).
• Worked on Maven to create artifacts from source code and deploy them in Nexus central repository for internal deployments.
• Previous experience with production deployment tools like AnthillPro and Nolio a plus • Worked with Atlassian tools like Bamboo & Jira.
• End-user regarding branching strategies for all Subversion (SVN) users to effectively use the tool.
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Amazon Web Services. Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2; auto-scaling; and VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts, and are able to quickly evolve during development iterations. Implemented multiple high-performance MongoDB replica sets on EC2 with robust reliability
• Worked on high-volume crash collecting and reporting system, built with Python.
• Performed dispatcher role to distribute tasks assigned to the onshore team.
• Drove releases, automated release process.
• Developed unit and functional tests in Python and Java.
• Work with Docker for convenient environment setup the test environments.
• Have used SharePoint to create, share and discuss content and projects.
• Proposed branching strategy suitable for current application in Subversion.
• Managed the Release Communication and Co-ordination Process.

Environment: Solaris, Linux, Eclipse, C++, Java, SQL, AWS, Python, Subversion, Bash, Hudson, NT Command Shell, Anthill pro, Java/J2EE, ANT, Bamboo, Chef, Puppet, JIRA, XML, Jenkins, Anthill Pro.

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participating in "Release Readiness Review" status meeting (Go/No-go Process).
• Creation of Release Plan, Definition, collection, analysis & presentation of Release Project Metrics on weekly basis.
• Identifying Cross Functional Dependencies, Monitoring & tracking the release milestones.
• Performing Risk Analysis, preparing Mitigation Strategies & Contingency Plans.
• Coordinating Release effort amongst various teams (Development, QA, Testing, and Business Analysis) in geographically separated environment.
• Software Configuration Management and Tools team
• Delivered Android product on time by quickly adapted to GIT system from Clearcase, working with product team to setup GIT repository and build branch, customizing release scripts.
• Transformed the manual release procedure for Android product to automation build on Hudson by working with multiple functional teams; provided test and user guideline.
• Integrated JIRA and GERRIT so that the GERRIT inspection status change can trigger JIRA issue transition automatically.
• Presenting Project's Weekly status to Senior Management during Weekly Status Meetings.
• Key Member of CCB (Change Control Board); in case of change in defined scope of the release (Change in requirements).
• Build release of Cloud based products containing Linux and Windows environments, using Power Shell, TFS and Python Scripting
• Providing Release Management and Build Automation with TFS 2012 Build Automation for multiple projects.
• Provided SCM support on improving SW defect tracking system and code inspection tool for Android SW.
• Configuration of Continuous, Rolling, Scheduled, Gated Automated Builds with TFS 2012 Build Automation
• Propagated JIRA issue solution from the baseline to other build lines automatically by applying SCM standards and implementing the system back-end to cherry-picking the changes.
• Ensured the success of automation Smoke test for Android products on several Linux machines by maintaining automation test scripts and configuration file.
• Hudson Android Build Support team
• Implemented Jenkins for Continuous Integration Builds, automated deployments and Notifications.
• Worked with Subversion, Proposed and implemented branching strategy suitable for agile/scrum development in a Fast Paced Engineering Environment. • Integrated Subversion for automating builds with Jenkins.
• Managed the Subversion branching strategy for a few applications by creating Release branches, Development branches thus ensuring the integrity of Trunk.
• Efficiently performed the task of resolving conflicts while merging in Subversion with the J2EE development background.
• Accountable for 24/7 Hudson Android build support cross over 10 Linux machine for various releases from mobile devices world-wide product development team
• Monitoring, tracking, coordinating & managing 'Issues' & 'Escalation'.
• Tracking code migration & testing efforts in all environments (i.e. Integration, Sys. Test, UAT, Performance/ Tech. Test, & Staging environments (Mock Cut-Overs)) & final migration into Production Environment
• Implementing Corrective-actions in case of deviation from the Release plan.
• Overseeing the continuous build, integration & testing for Java related code running on Jenkins (Unit, Integration & System Level Tests).
• Created Fuel NA's Q/A process; equipped and set up the Q/A lab
• Wrote Pom.xml for Maven application builds automation.
• Experience integrating JUnit, FindBugs, Checkstyle code analysis and testing during the build.
• Used Shell and Perl scripting to deploy artifacts that are built by Maven.
• Managed and performed the environment related configuration changes as a part of deployment.
• Deployed the archives to Tomcat Application Servers.
• Served as a partial administrator for Unix Machines.
• Performed re-starts and xml configs and post deploy setups and brought application up for testing

Environment: Subversion (SVN), Jenkins, Java/J2EE, MAVEN, IBM Websphere, Gerrit, Perl Scripts, AWS, Shell Scripts, XML, UNIX, Tomcat Application servers, Oracle, FINDBUGS.

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Build Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and supported the Software Release Management and procedures.
• Deployed the Java applications into web application servers like Apache Tomcat.
• Developed, maintained, and distributed release notes for each scheduled release.
• Performed all necessary day-to-day Subversion/CVS support for different projects.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/CVS Repositories, views, and the access control strategies.
• Implemented & maintained the branching and build/release strategies utilizing Subversion /CVS.
• Used ANT as a build tool on java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.
• Provided periodic feedback of status and scheduling issues to the management.
• Involved in periodic archiving and storage of the source code for disaster recovery
• Administered Hudson and responsible for creating new projects and enhancements for old projects.
• Automated the build and release management process including monitoring changes between releases.
• Executed user administration and maintenance tasks including creating users and groups, reports and queries.
• Worked as a system administrator for the build and deployments process on the enterprise server.
• Documented project's software release management procedures with input decisions.
• Responsible for Plugin Management, User Management, regular incremental backups and regular maintenance for recovery

Environment: Subversion, CVS, Java/J2EE, ANT, Hudson, LINUX, XML, Apache Tomcat, Oracle, Perl Scripts, Shell scripts

Confidential

Build Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Architects on SDLC process being the owner of post development environments.
• Coordinating the resources by working closely with Project Manager's for the release and Project Manager for all the Operational Projects.
• Co-coordinated Instance Refreshes and Environment Re-base lining.
• Coordinated all the IT projects successfully by resolving release interdependencies and planning release.
• Carried Deployments and builds on various environments using Build Forge Automation tool.
• Developed and implemented the software release management for the release of web applications.
• Wrote ANT Scripts to automate the build process.
• Used Shell/Perl scripts to automate the deployment process.
• Used IBM Rational Clear Quest for tracking the changes and approval process.
• Designed a customized Status Reporting tool used currently, based on the specific requirements using J2EE/ Struts and Websphere Application Server with DB2 as Database.
• Planning, scheduling and documenting releases at code Freeze Periods.
• Sole person to be responsible for Release/Change control Process.
• Worked with many teams of strength more than 30 and managed 2 release/build engineers.
• Stand by administrator for Clear Case.
• Involved in creating new elements in jobs.
• Administered Build Forge for automated build and deploy activities.
• Responsible for User Management, Creating/Managing Libraries, Projects, Environments and Schedules in Build Forge for Build and Deploy Automation.

Environment: IBM Rational Clear Case, Java/J2EE, ANT, DB2, UNIX, Build Forge, Web Sphere, Shell and Perl Scripting

Confidential

LINUX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered, maintained Red Hat 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 AS, ES, Troubleshooting Hardware, Operating System Application & Network problems and performance issues; Deployed latest patches for, Linux and Application servers, Performed Red Hat Linux Kernel Tuning. Experience in implementing and configuring network services such as HTTP, DHCP, and TFTP.
• Install and configure DHCP, DNS (BIND, MS), web (Apache, IIS), mail (SMTP, IMAP, POP3), and file servers on Linux servers.
• Administered Linux servers for several functions including managing Apache/Tomcat server, mail server, MySQL databases in both development and production.
• Experienced working with Preload Assist and PICS projects.
• Migrated database applications from Windows 2000 Server to Linux server.
• Installing and setting up Oracle9i on Linux for the development team.
• Linux kernel, memory upgrades and swaps area. Red hat Linux Kickstart Installation.
• Capacity Planning, Infrastructure design and ordering systems.
• Created users, manage user permissions, maintain User & File System quota on Red hat Linux.
• Bash shell-scripts to automate routine activities.
• Monitored trouble ticket queue to attend user and system calls.
• Attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in environment.
• Diagnosed hardware and software problems and provided solution to them.
• Updated data in inventory management package for Software and Hardware products.
• Worked with DBAs on installation of RDBMS database, restoration and log generation.

Environment: Red Hat Linux 3.0,4.0,5.0 AS ES, HP-DL585, Oracle 9i/10g, Samba, VMware Tomcat 3.x,4.x,5.x, Apache Server 1.x,2.x, Bash.