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Parsippany, Nj, Us

Serving on the technical support team responsible for managing Endur environments for BP's S3 Program deliverables including multiple Endur upgrade projects (V15 & V18) and infrastructure migration project from on-premises to AWS Cloud. • Endur Environment Support – Responsible for managing environments’ setup, deployments (core), troubleshooting and maintenance activities for 20+ Endur environments including Production.• Environments Management Support – Responsible for working closely with the project work streams to coordinate various Endur environment activities while working closely with Workstream Leads, Architects and various Platform support teams. Environment activities including but not limited to infra build outs, database refreshes, Endur core staging and deployments, user & usage management, component/interface configuration, etc.• Creating and managing server infrastructure on AWS Cloud, including maintaining and updating Ansible Tower playbooks used for configuring and managing Endur services on the servers.• Executing EOD and APM SOD processes and user access management tasks in the production on on-need basis.

Served on specialized Shell Endur team that administered and delivered multiple Endur V14 environments, from development to production. Managed 20+ different environments during project.• Setup and configured OpenLink Endur V14 application environments (including Citrix and Application Grid servers), configuring all dependent components including spread, upgrading application environments with new code drops from vendor, and executing database upgrade SQL scripts.• Release Management of custom code (Java, .NET, AVS, TPM definitions) in all controlled test, stage, and production environments, executing associated build process and debugging code builds. Enforcing standards migration process while implementing CI/CD processes.• Implemented Jenkins for automated build and deployments into test, QA and stage environments.• Setup and configured MS SCOM monitoring of the Endur application grid servers.• Provided Endur set up and configuration related training to team members and directed team responsible for maintaining environments.

Spearheaded and successfully delivered multiple Endur environments from development to production for multiple projects. Supervised over 25 different Endur environments during a single project. Projects: Gas Plus (Functional enhancements after upgrade), Single Gas Platform (gMotion implementation), CPI (3 phases: database upgrade to Oracle 11G, Citrix upgrade to XenApp 6.5, and application server upgrade to Windows 2008).• Led team accountable for maintaining environments. Arranged and configured OpenLink Endur 9.0 application environments (desktop client, Citrix, and Application servers) and configured all dependent components (Tibco RV, Crystal Reports).• Upgraded application environments with new code drops from vendor, executing database scripts.• Managed custom code base repository (SVN) and associated build process, created deployment strategy, established and enforced standards migration process, deployed / migrated custom code including SQL, and debugged code builds.• Proposed, designed, and implemented disaster recovery solution for Endur Application servers, provided immediate cost saving of $66K+ and yearly saving of $62K+ in run and maintenance costs. DR SLA brought down from over 2 hours to less than 30 minutes.• Delivered POC project for Endur environment in AWS Cloud by setting up and configuring Endur on AWS servers using unicast messaging.• Delivered POC project for implementing MS VSTS by configuring VSTS environment.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Orchestrated software configuration management, environment, and release management duties for SENA Endur upgrade project.• Tasked with OpenLink Endur 9.0 application administration and environment management for over 20 development, test, stage, and future production environments.• Performed software installation and scripting of Endur and dependent components (TIBCO RV, and Crystal Reports), environment configuration, and executing upgraded scripts.• Managed all custom code base in SVN repository and associated build process, debugging code builds, creating deployment strategy, establishing, and enforcing standards and executing data loads. • Coordinated activities with infrastructure, DBA, middleware, and hardware support teams.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Performed Microsoft BizTalk 2002 server administration and support for 35+ active application interfaces, ensuring administration of BizTalk clustered servers for test, QA, and production environments.• Provided 24 / 7 first-line support for interfaces in production, updating and executing SQL queries for configuration changes, troubleshooting, and deploying interface applications to each BizTalk environment.• Gathered and documented architecture and data flow diagrams, disaster recovery, and quality assurance documents, managing change control process for deploying interface changes to different environments.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Implemented enterprise wide software configuration management process, working closely with development, quality assurance, and deployment teams.• Senior administrator for PVCS Version Manager and Tracker. Installed PVCS Version Manager software on server, set up new projects, and configured user privileges, aligning promotion models for code branching, enhancing tools to latest release besides, providing user training, maintaining project records for 300+ users working on 100+ projects.• Performed built master responsibilities, maintaining and updating ANT build scripts, executing scripts to package and deploy WebSphere application, and testing debugging builds. Coordinated application deployments between development teams and Windows / UNIX administrators.• Served as Administrator for Aldon CMS tool for AS400 environment and added new projects and releases, promoting and migrating objects to libraries on test, beta, and production AS400s.

Senior IT Consultant at Waste Management

Consultant at Enron Energy Services

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San Jose, Ca, Us

Bs, Computer Science

Bsc, Physics And Mathematics