The Release Solutions Lead (RSL) provides leadership, guidance, guardrails, and accountability for the software release and deployment of projects and services. Goals:- Promote unified guidance with respect to how applications, infrastructure, configuration, and data should be deployed, as well as how they should be orchestrated within an overall release.- Reduce ad-hoc design and planning for releases during the project lifecycle causing rework and corrective action, Improve… Show more The Release Solutions Lead (RSL) provides leadership, guidance, guardrails, and accountability for the software release and deployment of projects and services. Goals:- Promote unified guidance with respect to how applications, infrastructure, configuration, and data should be deployed, as well as how they should be orchestrated within an overall release.- Reduce ad-hoc design and planning for releases during the project lifecycle causing rework and corrective action, Improve quality by release process optimization.- Drive and facilitate communication within the release teams, development teams and infrastructure partners to create and maintain efficient deployment processes.The RSL has the full support of senior management and engages early in the project lifecycle to drive quality and reduce down-time. Show less

Member of the Enterprise Build Automation (EBA) team since its inception. This team transformed the Paychex software lifecycle process from: Splintered, non-uniform & time-consuming to: standardized, agile & fast-moving. Responsible for the design, implementation, documentation and support of the Paychex continuous delivery build & deployment system which currently processes over 1500 Paychex software projects.Activities include: “Selling” the process to consumers, R&D… Show more Member of the Enterprise Build Automation (EBA) team since its inception. This team transformed the Paychex software lifecycle process from: Splintered, non-uniform & time-consuming to: standardized, agile & fast-moving. Responsible for the design, implementation, documentation and support of the Paychex continuous delivery build & deployment system which currently processes over 1500 Paychex software projects.Activities include: “Selling” the process to consumers, R&D, Implementation, Troubleshooting, Documentation, End-user Training, Customer Support, Programming, Scripting, Code Quality Gating. Guided development teams move to the new build and deployment processes (design, implementation, troubleshooting). Jenkins, Bitbucket, gradle, XLD deploy, XL release.Designed many aspects of the EBA automated software lifecycle process including: Deployment Staging, ACQE, Proxy optimization, NPM framework., Share script process, IIS website deployments..Assisted with the installation, configuration & maintenance 100+ server machines (WIndow, Linux, Mac). Customized XL-Deploy components (plugins) to meet the changing needs of development teams.Created numerous scripts to assist with system/application configuration, reporting and diagnosis.Early adopter and promoter of the agile/scrum process for team work items. EBA is an example team for the Agile/scrum process often shadowed by other teams at Paychex..Regularly volunteered to provide off-hours (overnight) support and troubleshooting assistance to Release teams for deployments (production and non-production).Provided support and troubleshooting assistance to Development teams for Jenkins, Artifactory and XL Deploy and XL Release.Formed key customer relationships with many teams and was nominated for peer recognition by the HTML5 development team. Show less

Training InstructorFacilitated the instruction of Auto-trol's KONFIG Fundamentals, Administration & CMII User training courses to customers at various locations including: Ramstein Germany, Boston MA, Hampton VA, Colorado Springs CO. Project ManagerCoordinated the successful delivery of Auto-Trol's KONFIG Configuration Management system to customers including requirements gathering, project documentation, project scheduling, resource management, billing, data migration… Show more Training InstructorFacilitated the instruction of Auto-trol's KONFIG Fundamentals, Administration & CMII User training courses to customers at various locations including: Ramstein Germany, Boston MA, Hampton VA, Colorado Springs CO. Project ManagerCoordinated the successful delivery of Auto-Trol's KONFIG Configuration Management system to customers including requirements gathering, project documentation, project scheduling, resource management, billing, data migration, and follow-up support. Obtained CMII Certification from The Institute of Configuration Management.Application EngineerPresented monthly live KONFIG product demonstrations to potential customers via the Intercall web conferencing tool. Assisted customers with installation and implementation of the KONFIG application. Show less

Ferrari PC ServiceOperated a PC service business to upgrade and repair Personal computers. Provided on-site support for hardware, software and home network configuration.ToneGenerator Recording Operated a digital multi-track audio recording studio to produce and record local artists. Equipment used includes: 16-track digital recorders, PC workstations, a dedicated sound room, professional microphones and outboard equipment.

Designed and implemented a flexible plugin interface to add modular components to three large-scale Kodak Photo-lab applications.Advanced Developer for the Phogenix Digital Photo-lab application. Responsibilities included: Design, documentation, implementation and support using: Windows GUI, COM, multi-threading, multiple resource components and external libraries.Setup and maintained configuration management system.

Project leader and developer of several Windows applications. Responsible for requirements gathering, estimation, scheduling, implementation, customer communication, and post-release support. Technologies used: Microsoft Visual C/C++, Windows GDI, XMLReceived the Kodak Software Quality Award while project leader of the Kodak Printfile Downloader team (A Kodak software application developed by Vanteon). The project involved complete redesign of the application and testing tools which is… Show more Project leader and developer of several Windows applications. Responsible for requirements gathering, estimation, scheduling, implementation, customer communication, and post-release support. Technologies used: Microsoft Visual C/C++, Windows GDI, XMLReceived the Kodak Software Quality Award while project leader of the Kodak Printfile Downloader team (A Kodak software application developed by Vanteon). The project involved complete redesign of the application and testing tools which is still available for download.Implemented sophisticated InstallShield installers utilizing: Web installations, custom dialogs, and external libraries.Setup and maintained configuration management system for all software projects. Show less