Alex Bunk Email & Phone Number

Princeton, New Jersey, US

Redwood City, CA, US

• Principal Atlassian Administrator
• Principal Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket administrator for AWS self-hosted multi-node Atlassian Data Center software (1000 user license)
• Responsibilities include managing of projects, spaces, workflows, schemas and assets, assisting project level administrators, performing application upgrades, vetting/installing/upgrading app add-ons, debugging errors.
• Implemented Okta SSO integration module and ScriptRunner groovy script customization.
• Migrated Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket from Server to Data Center.
• Developed business continuation strategy for AWS cross regional support.Sr. Software Project Manager Expert & Sr. DevOps Architect, Continuous Integration & Deployment

Scottsdale, AZ, US

• Appliance Program Manager working with Project Managers & Product Owners coordinating multiple offshore projects in 4 different countries to realize coordinated project releases on budget and on time.
• Appliance Platform Project Manager and Scrum Master delivering quarterly releases to support hardened physical & virtual appliances running on Amazon Web Services / Azure / VMWare / Hyper-V / Xen / KVM / Virtualbox.
• Continuous Integration Manager responsible for entire range of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment, ensuring a fully automated build environment from check-in, unit testing, automation and packaging to.
• Responsible for introduction of Amazon Cloud integration in development lifecycle, implementing Amazon Machine Image product delivery and Amazon Web Services Marketplace publication.
• Managing OEM and fulfillment partner relationships to drive timelines, pricing, hardware specs, technical and regulatory requirements to ensure successful product delivery.
• IT Lab and Data Storage Manager overseeing complete lab virtualization with flexible multi host environments and highly available central storage arrays to ensure 99.9% uptime and online maintenance capability.

Scottsdale, AZ, US

• Transformed Appliance Program into a solid, dependable platform for R&D, Support & Sales delivering over 30 successful releases.
• Adopted agile development methodology as Scrum Master managing chartering, budgeting, sprint planning, daily scrum, backlog grooming, sprint review, retrospectives and release process.
• Modernized hardware generation, introduced appliance branding and oversaw regulatory certification.

• Utilized strong functional knowledge to drive product design and delivery. Determined product direction, project plans and timelines, developed cost-effective budgets and resource plans.
• Lead, managed and mentored QA and Performance teams.
• Planned and implemented hardware infrastructure of QA and Performance labs.

• Developed, published, implemented and executed QA and Performance test plans.
• Worked closely with Development and Tech Pubs teams to help identify problems and solidify procedures to test new features.

• Owned execution of advanced white-box, API and distributed installation testing.
• Developed and maintained automated scripts.

• Project Lead for “Grades Manager”, administrative package for scholastic grade management and reporting.
• Prepared addresses on mainframe magnetic tapes for Xerox high speed laser printing system 9700.

• Lead programmer for zip code conversion, automatic elimination of duplicates and mailing cost optimization.
• Developed and maintained internal administration programs on Siemens Nixdorf 8870/Quattro.