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Lakewood, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

* Managed cloud migrations from on-premise to AWS, improving system scalability and reducing deployment time by 30%.* Implemented GitLab CI with Docker and Kubernetes, resulting in faster deployments and increased team productivity.* Worked in the integration of monitoring and alerting tools (Edge Delta, New Relic, PagerDuty) to enhance system visibility and reduce downtime by 20%.* Mentored junior engineers, driving improvements in process efficiency and team collaboration.

Member of a 7 person team distributed around the globe supporting development in a continuous integration/delivery environment.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Responsible for maintaining and expanding the continuous integration infrastructure in a multi-product, multi-site enterprise software development environment.Interface with Lab and R&D team members to minimize disruption of service, while continuously building better, cleaner, higher-quality and more innovative solutions.Responsible for working with cross-functional, agile teams delivering world-class, “best of breed,” security solutions to the market. Experience managing revision control systems including subversion and git.Experience managing continuous integration with TeamCity.Experience working in a multi-platform environment.Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies as the team's scrum master.

Orange, Ca, Us

System Administrator and Software Release Engineer for Tizen Started with Intel in September to work 50% as a system administrator and 50% as a release engineer for an open source project called Tizen. Within the first month, worked with 2 other system administrators to rack, install, and configure the entire hardware infrastructure to be accessed by both Intel and non-Intel developers around the world. The hardware consisted of 54 servers which included 20 virtual host servers housing 64 virtual machines running everything from the dns server to a mail server to an ldap server. The other 34 servers are open build service workers. Created many virtual servers using Xen. Maintained and upgraded these servers through iDRAC or a custom script. Installed and configured all of the software infrastructure consisting of Gerrit/Git, Hudson/Jenkins, Open Source Build Service, and 2 Intel internal applications.. Worked with local and remote engineers to troubleshoot and resolve issues with the software and hardware infrastructure. Configured Nagios for remote monitoring of the entire infrastructure. Installed and configured Apache and Nginx web servers to serve internal and external facing web sites. Wrote a complete document on the installation and configuration of the build system software stack.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Provided leadership and work assignments to lab tech contractors and new college grads. Trained the new college grads in the installation and configuration of Linux, including multi-boot installations of Windows, RedHat, and SUSE Linux. Deployed and maintained build automation infrastructure, including build tools as well as administering Windows and Linux build machines. Enhanced build automation tools and developed new tools to drive improvements in build efficiency. Build automation tools are mostly PERL scripts. Owned the administration of the source code repository family for the team. Designed and implemented wiki pages to enable collaboration across teams. Drove the hardware requirements specification for the project. Researched Blade Center and Blade Servers as they related to the SCM project. Thorough use of the ServerProven and OneStopShop sites for information, drivers and other software. Configured Blade Center E, H, and S chassis. Upgraded firmware for all parts of the Blade Centers including SAS Switch Modules, Disk Storage Subsystems, and Management Modules. Provided troubleshooting for many issues associated with firmware and BIOS upgrade needs. Provided hardware coordination, implementation, and lab support for the team. Including pre-GA hardware. Entered, defended, and ordered capital requests for future hardware acquisition and lab expansion. Provided hardware support to IBM U.S. and Global development and test teams. Provided user support to SCM team for applications such as CMVC source code repository and defect tracking tool, Global Storage Architecture, and wiki based hardware inventory and schedule tool.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Designed and implemented test scenarios and cases. Created and implemented test plans and test scripts. Assisted in the design and development of testing tools for test automation and support. Led all technical testing efforts including functional verification, system verification, and integration testing. Ensured the highest quality levels of software products through participation in daily scrum meetings, identifying new defects, and recreating defects found in the field. Assisted in implementation of quality assurance standards and continual improvement activities.

Associate Of Science - As, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration And Management, General