As DevOps/Software Engineer (SE):• Spearheaded efforts to develop Continuous Integration (CI) Pipelines to integrate, package, and publish our Kubernetes/Docker containerized products using Groovy/Gradle and supporting scripts (Perl/Shell) to package configuration and pull/save docker images.• Administered our CI/Virtual Machines (VMs) supporting multiple teams. Managed Jenkins upgrades, integrating innovative features and plugins (300+), and providing admin support to users. As SE, implemented applications to modify, monitor, and interface with Jenkins that integrated Plugins, the Jenkins Command-Line Interface (CLI), Jenkins REST API, and various language-specific libraries.• As DevOps, installed/configured applications to streamline our processes including Jenkins 2.x CI/CD, Nexus 3 Docker proxy, Prometheus Pushgateway push metrics, and Kibana ElasticSearch. • Implemented tools to publish/download artifacts to/from Nexus that were integrated into our CI platform and used Maven/Gradle. Perl and Ruby tools were also implemented for product deployments, parse/traverse Nexus dependency trees, and storage management of artifacts.• Implemented configuration-driven Web monitoring tools (Django/Python/Javascript/JQuery) that integrated with our CI environment and Lockable Resources plugin API providing interactive and reporting capabilities for our VM resources and CI jobs.• Helped optimize the setup of our environments with much of the focus on CI and DevOps. This included migrations to IaaS Cloud services like OpenStack, dynamic spinning-up Docker images, and development of Puppet/Ansible configuration.• Implemented reporting tools supporting many output formats to aggregate data, generate dependency graphs, and produce diff reports.• Installed, configured, and troubleshooted applications in our RHEL7 environment much in support of Ruby/Gems and RSpec frameworks.• Developed procedures/tools to support our team migration from Linux CentOS 6.x to RHEL7.

• Implemented customizations to the OpenStack Horizon dashboard and a suite of Jenkins projects that ran as tests to set up a virtual environment, run the server, and execute the built in dashboard unit and validation tests.• Installed locally the Gerrit Code Review, Apache Tomcat server/Jenkins CI, and GIT applications and configured them to mirror the existing development instances by enabling Jenkins projects to respond to GIT patch submission and/or Gerrit triggers and run downstream processing actions such as Python/Puppet validation or RPM builds.• Setup GIT and Jenkins projects in support of the Cloud OpenStack integration committing code for Gerrit Code Review as well as peer reviewing existing code submissions.• Performed regular root level administrative actions aimed at configuring the local development environment.

Maintain, implement, configure, deploy, execute, and test software applications in support of Geolocation:• Implemented software applications (Python, Perl, Shell, SQL, and Apache Hadoop FS and Map/Reduce) and workflows (Hudson CI) in support of the development of new data sources. Tools integrated domain (including events) data from multiple sources and made use of various methodologies including traditional approaches and Cloud-based programming.• Developed software applications (Python, Perl, Shell, Apache Pig, AQL, and other internal Cloud development tools) to support network analysis, data integration and provisioning, and analytics development for customers.• Developed task dependency workflows with Hudson/Jenkins CI and other internal workflow tools in support of data processing. Performed various optimizations to those workflows and underlying applications to extract/filter (Hadoop Map/Reduce) events data from large Cloud repositories and store (SQLite) data for downstream processing.• Implemented Web based tools for internal use in support of data query, update, and analysis. Tools provided an API developed with a Django/Python MVC framework that included client-side scripts (Javascript/AJAX), CSS templates, and SQLite databases for back-end storage.• Administered Linux systems and Utility Cloud VMs to include installation and configuration of Web servers, databases, programming language interpreters/libraries, and other applications. Performed various system administration tasks as root to configure and optimize the VMs.• Assisted customers with data provisioning, software solutions, domain related questions, and general troubleshooting.

Web applications (Python/Django), Web service clients (Java EE/C#/Jython) used to access Windows SharePoint CMS, Corporate Website content/layout (DotNetNuke), and CI (Hudson)

Maintained, implemented, configured, deployed, executed, and tested software applications in support of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument Science Investigator-led Processing System of Satellite data (SESDA2 contract at Goddard/NASA).• Implemented usability, automation, and configuration improvements to Satellite data provisioning tools.• Executed daily data provisioning operations and streamlined them to handle high-volume requests in a timely manner.• Performed software installation/configuration and database upgrades/configuration in support of science applications.• Implemented tools (Perl/sh) to run the atmospheric data processing apps developed by scientists and test their performance under various Fortran compilers/Linux systems. Developed Web reports (HTML::Mason) to display the daily runs results.• Participated in CMMI panel discussions set up to improve processes including bug/issue reporting and tracking.

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Designed and implemented applications (Perl) for web frameworks, data cleanup and migration, and database interfacing as well as a new CMS (Interwoven/TeamSite/Perl) for Petfinder, a leading online source of pet information. Applications significantly extended and improved functionality as well as end-user access to information.• Implemented Perl applications/modules used to automate the Petfinder online library data cleanup and migration to the new Interwoven/TeamSite CMS platform.• Implemented the Petfinder Interwoven/TeamSite CMS framework and supporting tools including Data Capture Templates (DCT), Tagger UIs, workflows, and Perl/sh back-end components. Trained and assisted the executive/content producers on how to use this platform to easily create and deploy rich web content to the Discovery/Petfinder databases.• Developed RDBMS models (MySQL) to support TeamSite data deploy and web rendering applications used by Petfinder.• Implemented Template Toolkit frameworks and Perl modules used for the Petfinder web site and administered development/QA web server processes and configuration in a Linux environment.• Implemented numerous applications that were integrated into the TeamSite DCT/Tagger UI forms and were used to support form validation, asset browsing, and server-side operations requiring database access (Perl/CGI and Javascript).• Worked with administrators on the execution of applications and in helping troubleshoot, debug, and/or configure both the Interwoven/TeamSite CMS (Linux) and Petfinder web environments (Apache2/mod_perl and Linux)

• Designed/implemented the screen scraping (SS) component (Perl) of an application that enabled educators and students to access their institutional Blackboard Academic Suite account(s) from their online Facebook account. Hosted on Linux, the SS component design integrated Apache2/mod_perl, Tomcat web servers and background processes (Perl) to handle high-volume synchronous/asynchronous requests. Oracle & database APIs were used for storing/retrieving user data. The SS module handled authentication, HTTP requests, data retrieval, parsing/integration, encryption, and XML formatting. • Supported Blackboard Learning System software for plagiarism prevention (Perl)

Increased productivity through re-engineering and re-configuration of existing workflows and programs; automated large numbers of manually intensive tasks leading to higher data throughput and productivity.• Ensured cost-effectiveness of data processing system by enhancing and maintaining multi-tiered, parallel-computing architecture with use of Tomcat web servers/JSP, LSF, Oracle, and Perl/Shell programs. Co-authored and presented paper, “A High-Throughput Adaptive Computing Infrastructure for Bioinformatics Research,” at international conference.• Improved maintenance and productivity through development of reusable code, better documentation, centralized/standardized configuration, standardized directory and file naming conventions; improved error checking within program blocks; use of open source/third party modules; improved setup of development/production environments and better revision control practices.• Spearheaded effort to improve coding standards within team through regular team presentations and reference materials.• Increased productivity through reuse of existing workflows and integration/re-engineering of existing programs; automated large number of manually intensive tasks leading to higher data throughput and productivity.• Improved usability and maintainability of data processing system by enhancing the Web server views (JSP/Java and Perl/GD), administering the Web servers and implementing the 24/7 monitoring processes used to safeguard operational integrity and reliability; developed requirements with input from current users.

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Designed/implemented data conversion applications in support of habitat information project; improved search and retrieval of complex biological relationships through conversion of text database to RDBMS; normalized data for easier accessibility.• Designed/implemented a suite of data conversion applications to transform legacy text databases into Oracle RDBMS.• Developed GUI (Perl/Tk, Java 2 Swing/AWT) to authenticate, validate, configure, manage data conversion into RDBMS.• Provided technical support to software developers/staff of conservation division on deployment of conversion applications.

Designed and developed text mining and screen scraping applications for data parsing from multi-format text databases and web pages; data conversion applications for data validation, cleanup and loading; customer-facing web applications for online data search and retrieval.• Developed text mining and data conversion/loading applications for extraction and analysis of text patterns from publicly available bibliographic databases in support of value-added updates to the flagship expertise database of professionals.• Developed web farming tools that automatically and periodically access and parse multi-format web pages to locate and/or validate most current information in support of the expertise database.• Developed /maintained a suite of commercial web products for on-line search and retrieval of bibliographic information.

Designed and developed software in support of all layers of GDB flagship application that included a GUI, Object Oriented API, and RDBMS back-end; developed internal tools to support various data loading and data browsing processes.• Developed a Sybase stored procedures (SPs) generator. Schema/data-driven application that captured complex Genomic relations included scripts to auto-generate DML SPs and validation, referential integrity, and user authentication SPs.• Developed an electronic data submissions system used to populate production databases using batch submissions. Process included: data mapping, validation and table join optimizations.• Developed Broker programs to transport data between GDB GUI client and back-end RDBMS.• Developed tools to generate schema DTD representations using Lex/Yacc; a Tcl/Tk (X/Motif) GUI application used internally by editors to browse and search journals; and tools for data cleanup/validation of a legacy Genetics database.