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Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

My responsibility in this job is to assist Watson Health development teams use IBM DevOps Toolchains for Continuous Integration & Test, and Continuous Deployment & Delivery. In this job I have been trained in a variety of cloud related technologies. This includes - Toolchains for tool integration in support of development, deployment, and operations.- Docker and Containers- Kubernetes for managing containers, pods and nodes that make up a cluster.- Helm charts as a way to manage Kubernetes resourcesIn this job I have…- Created continuous integration and continuous deployment toolchains for a watson health offering- Created New Relic monitors to monitor services deployed in a kubernetes cluster and configured them to include email notifications- Created LogDNA filters and configured them to include alerts that generate email notifications.- Created Travis build that automates the building of an offerings mkdocs based documentation so that it is published to GitHub pages whenever changes are committed.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

My responsibility is to provide and maintain builds for software development and releases. This job is a new challenge that I accepted because there was a business need to fill this role. This has allowed me to broaden my career from testing and test automation. As a build engineer I have….- Used, installed, and administered Jenkins. - Added slack notifications to jenkins and developed jenkins pipeline scripts as part of build automation.- Managed Github organizations, teams, and repositories. - Used Git and Github to create repositories and branches, commit and merge code changes, and collaborate with other developers through pull requests.- Used Maven to build source code projects- Used Nexus to manage source code assets- Leveraged the integration between Github and Jira that links Jira issues with code changes.- Created Github issue templates for Zenhub agile task boards.- Created a Github pages site using markdown documents and the static site publisher "Hugo".

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I am one of the leaders responsible for architecting and developing test automation for several IBM Watson Health solutions. My responsibility is to implement test automation for solutions such as "Watson for Oncology" and "Watson for Clinical Trial Matching". I am one of the leads who implements automation using Jenkins.I have.....- Spearheaded efforts to get continues testing implemented as part of our DevOps environment.- Improved efficiency by implementing Selenium Grid and getting our automated UI testing to run on it.- Increased test throughput by designing and implementing a pooling scheme built on Jenkins nodes.- Enhanced productivity by initiating and coordinating changes necessary to allow developers to easily trigger automated tests from their personal builds on our build system.- Achieved significant time savings for our analysis team when I implemented automation that runs multiple validation test buckets for Watson Clinical Trial Matching.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I lead in the design and implementation of an improved process for managing the test and training data used when testing a particular IBM Watson solution. This process maintains all this data in a well defined database schema.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I was a lead developer for various functions of a strategic system used across IBM to collect and share information about IBM deliverables. This system was managed by the Software Group Advanced Design and Technology organization. The functions I worked on dealt with transforming data from the system into usable formats, like html and dita xml, and mantaining information about a deliverables version and release levels. Much of my work required me to use Java, xsl, db2, jdbc, sql, and spreadsheets.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I was part of the "Solution Builder Express Portfolio Development" team. For the most part I was a developer. In 2009 I was the project planner and a developer for IBM's Solution Consultant Tool. In 2006 I was awarded an "Ovation Award" for my contributions to IBM's first Solution Builder Express Information Center.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I was a software engineer who was part of the Software Solutions cross platform integration testing organization . Much of this was working on proof of concept solutions that required the integration of various IBM and non-IBM products. The organization evolved into the IBM On Demand Solution Center that provided assets to IBM business partners.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I worked as a tester for IBM's VisualInfo Solutions

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I was part of the Software Financial Operations team. I analyzed and provided consultation in regards to IT systems utilization and efficiency . I was responsible for identifying opportunities for cost reduction. In 1995 I was awarded a division level award for my technical contributions towards successfully reducing IT costs .

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I did a number of system related work as part of the Technical Services and Systems Support team. I worked on the centralized test facility that this team provided. This facility included an automated process that I developed. This process was for provisioning MVS and VM test systems to development teams.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I was a developer working on performance products for IBM's mainframe VM operating system.