Dan Taylor Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Dev Ops EngineerIcontrol was acquired by Comcast

San Jose, Ca, Us

•Managed the promotion, merge, build, test and release of multiple software product lines being developed by globally distributed software development teams (Accurev/Jira).•Designed and implemented agile development/release strategy that reduced turnaround time on customer reported defects from six or more weeks down to one or two weeks maximum.•Improved build scripts to automatically associate defects being tracked in Jira/Accurev with builds generated by the build system.•Improved build scripts to automatically set release versions in Jira as builds were completed.•Maintained, modified, and improved automated build server scripts including cruise-control, nant, perl and python scripts.•Designed and wrote website in php using complex SQL queries to provide high level reports on current issues/projects by directly querying the Jira mysql database.•Automated release of http web applications over ftp/ssh to QA and production environments.

San Jose, Ca, Us

•Wrote and executed test strategy, test plan, and test cases for complex host based audio drivers and applications running on windows based platforms.•Automated (DTM/WHQL) and manual testing of audio drivers, InstallShield installers, and php web application•Primarily responsible for the day-to-day activities of the QA team (6 members).•Participated in project planning meetings and coordinated end-to-end test strategy including unit, integration, functional, regression, stress, and acceptance testing.•Provided status and quality reports on current projects to outside organizations.•Provided root cause analysis on test escapes and continual feedback on process improvements to prevent recurrence.•Build/assemble/maintain test systems.

The PC Audio division of SGTL was sold to IDT in August of 2006

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Performed a successful migration from Red Hat 7.3 linux to Whitebox Enterprise Linux 3.0 Migrated from Oracle8i on AIX 4.1.3 to Oracle 9i on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 including advanced profiling and tuning of the VM subsystems.Performed security monitoring and auditing on internal and external facing systems..Monitored security-focused forums and email distribution lists to help assess emerging security threats.Managed annual independent security audits by third parties to ensure security compliance on all network systems/devices.Performed security audits on internally developed web based applications to ensure data integrity.Successful domain migration from Windows NT4 to Windows 2000.Implemented a multi-platform backup solution utilizing a Spectralogic Treefrog Library with Netvault BakBone software.Designed and released a net-boot process that allowed unattended installation of desktops, servers, workstations, or test machines with various different versions of Windows or Linux.Implemented corporate wide antivirus solution.Applied domain wide Software Update Services to automatically apply updates to workstations on the domain.Implemented a replacement of the Red Hat Network service that allowed our Red Hat based servers to receive updates from a centralized onsite location, saving thousands of dollars in subscription fees.Primarily responsible for daily administration tasks in a high availability Unix production environment.Mimic production environment on a smaller scale to establish homogenous development and QA environments.Windows domain administration in a multi-user environment including IIS, Exchange, Active Directory, Dynamic DNS, WINS, DHCP, Terminal Services, etc.Configuration and administration of Nortel 11C phone switch, including ACD environment utilizing MAT and Symposium management software.Basic configuration of Cisco switches, routers, local director, and VPN concentrators

Round Rock, Texas, Us

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