Jeff Thomas Email & Phone Number

United States

Remote

Manage and contribute technically to Release Engineering team in both transformative and continuous improvement of the quality, release, configuration management, and governance processes. Drive automation of the quality and release pipeline through agile adoption of new techniques and technologies with emphasis on flexibility and maintainability with the goal of increasing reliability and repeatability and reducing effort and rework. • Decreased release candidate creation effort by an order of magnitude via automation.• Improved response and throughput of agile release activities using value stream mapping.• Reduced third party product license and security vulnerabilities through continuous monitoring.• Established and automated software escrow process using Bitbucket, Jenkins, and Docker.• Java/Groovy, C/C++, Bitbucket/Git, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Black Duck, Checkmarx, Linux, Docker.

Austin, Texas, United States

Introduced continuous delivery pipelines based on Jenkins. Designed, implemented, and managed systems required to build, test, and deploy software including subversion, git, JIRA, QuickBuild, Jenkins, VMware, and Docker environments. Assessed, planned, and assisted product teams. Ensured build and release best practices were followed. Encouraged cross team collaboration, feedback, and consensus building to insure continuous process improvement.• Increased build reliability 500% and increased build speed 400% via automation.• Java, Java EE, TestNG, JUnit, Maven, Ant, Git, Subversion, Jenkins, Linux, and Windows.

Led team of 15+ Spectrum Technology Platform QA Engineers including both co-located and globally-distributed. Served as product owner for dedicated automation team. Drove unit, system, load, volume, stress, and performance test plans and strategies. Automated testing using JUnit, NUnit, TestNG, JMeter, SoapUI, Java, Maven, Protractor, Hadoop, and Windows, UNIX, and Linux scripting. Recruited new QA Engineers to build team. Built and maintained cross-team and cross-functional collaboration and working relationships to deliver high quality releases on time. Investigated and troubleshot customer problems escalated by customer support when needed.• Improved quality of Spectrum through collaboration, test-driven development, and test automation.• Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP).

Performed a lead role in Spectrum Technology Platform as software developer and Release Coordinator. Planned and coordinated activities, helped develop schedules, identified risks and contingency plans. Analyzed and improved processes and information flow.• Reduced release distribution effort and errors by bundling multiple products into single distribution image.• Reduced patch creation effort by an order of magnitude with concomitant error reduction via automation.• Reduced pre-release "hardening" 50% by improved delivery processes and focus on automation and “done done”.• Increased global scrum team autonomy by sharing best practice processes and knowledge of tools and systems.• Delivered 6 major releases, 3 service packs, and 235 patches via the Scrum agile methodology.• Java, Java EE, subversion (SVN), maven, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Jetty, Windows, UNIX, Linux.

Developed portions of Spectrum Technology Platform including lead roles in the Universal Address Module, Enterprise Tax Module, External Sorter, Country Identifier, and portions of the server. Served as scrum master. Advocated continuous integration (CI), automated testing, and test-driven development. • Increased ETM performance 50% via bottleneck analysis and improved algorithm design.• Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).• Java, Java EE, C/C++, Windows, UNIX, Linux.

Developed enterprise Java software. Guided all phases of projects, including inception, elaboration, construction, and transition. Authored discovery documents, use cases, test plans, and status assessments. Managed code reviews and quality assurance efforts. Assisted sales, marketing, and recruiting. Developed the Universal Coder that became the Pitney Bowes Spectrum Technology platform Universal Address Module.• Delivered software to customers using object oriented development and agile methodologies such as XP.• Java, J2EE.

Deployed multi-million dollar, n-tier solutions at Fortune 500 companies. Guided all phases of projects. Led reviews of requirements, designs, and deliverables. Provided guidance to project team members. Managed customer relationships. • Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform.• Java, JDBC, SQL, HTML, CGI.

Multiprocessor tuning and benchmarking. • Increased NetBench performance benchmark results 25% via bottleneck analysis.• Windows System Administration.

Led the P2 research and development project. P2 is a lightweight DBMS generator written in C++. P2 synthesizes application-specific, high performance database management systems from a library of interchangeable, reusable components. • Achieved performance improvements over conventional systems of several orders of magnitude using P2.• C,C++.

Teamed with consultants, contractors, students, and full-time employees to build multi-million dollar EDS / University of Texas Financial Trading and Technology Center.• Integrated PC, WWW, and embedded device control systems.• Visual Basic, Visual C++, HTML. System Administration. Windows NT.

Ported an anti-submarine warfare operations simulation written in FORTRAN 77. Administered systems running HP-UX. • Delivered complex software in the non-typical environment of a classified computing environment.• UNIX, FORTRAN 77.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science