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Ipswich, MA, US

Boston, MA, US

Automate the installation, deployment, and configuration of a suite of manual third-party products and their supporting AWS infrastructure. Extend existing AWS CloudFormation templates for infrastructure and SaltStack for the suite of third-party application. Internal SysOps is the target audience for this project. Explore, prototype, troubleshoot variety.

Build & Release with a radically different platform, beyond virtualiztion...

Burlington, MA, US

Software development facilitator helping to shape and extend the company's vision of smart, effective software development and testing through process, tooling, and virtualization.

Nashua, NH, US

• Technical contributor with #1 INC 500 Company specializing in payment process management for the direct marketing industry. Company is Agile/XP since 2001 with monthly iterations. Product is a Linux based platform.
• Increased development productivity 15 fold with SCM improvements and concurrent development streams. Increased nightly integration builds from 2 to 20 on the primary build servers.
• Designed and implement Perl/XML tools to extending AccuRev functionality and to support company Agile/XP processes.
• Extensive use of virtual machines for test beds, tool development, and staging environments.

Morristown, New Jersey, US

• Technical contributor with the Spectel division that creates audio conferencing hardware and software products on SCO/UnixWare, Linux and Microsoft Windows
• Create unattended Linux installer (not a kick-start) used by field technicians that goes from raw hardware to a fully functional audio conferencing system in 15 minutes. Build and kitting process is fully automated.
• Design and implement Unix and MS-Window product installers with RPM, InstallAnywhere, InstallShield, and shell scripting.
• Performed source control tool evaluation to find a common tool for all platforms.
• Designed & implemented an AccuRev infrastructure providing high availability, low network overhead, and cross-site disaster protection without complex IT supports.
• Provide SCO/Unixware installation and configuration support to engineering, QA and manufacturing in US and Ireland.

• Technical contributor with a start-up consulting company providing software development process improvements to clients.
• Automate tools to create reproducible build results, kitting, media creation, and report generation. Created processes for disaster recovery, legal escrows, SCM & build environment archiving. Client is ISO-9001.
• Evaluated and recommended SCM, build tools and a supporting infrastructure (system/network HW/SW). Provided System & network management services.
• Prototyped an automated, multi-host test bed that is initialized, configured, and started by the build process.
• Evaluated and recommended source control tools, such ClearCase, StarTeam, AccuRev, CVS, PVCS, etc., for client.

• Co-authored and implemented an integrated development and release process. This process was successfully used to deliver six major product releases in a one-month timeframe.
• Automated source control and build processes for Intelligent Agents, a Java based project.
• Evolved an ineffective source control mechanism into a reliable, flexible, source management process with common wrapper tools based upon PVCS Version Manager for UNIX, Microsoft, and OS/2 platforms.
• Developed numerous cross-platform tools with Perl, MKS Toolkits, and UNIX shells, Created PVCS Event Triggers implemented as a Perl TCP/IP client/server application.
• Capital planning for hardware management/configuration and performance.

Houston, Texas, US

* VMS DECnet development support (SCM, build, installation, testbed, lab management)* SW Engineer maintaining variants PDP-11 operating systems.* Manufacturing tools engineer