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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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..
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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