Successful Release Management professional with practical hands-on manual/automated build and release expertise, including coordinating/motivating teams to meet demanding timelines.
Expertise
Practical hands-on implementation experience of new release management processes and procedures based on TFS/Azure DevOps
Build and Release expert with CI/CD technology and process focus
Technical knowledge and expertise of release engineering principles and processes for Azure cloud
Extensive knowledge of SDLC in a variety of environments
Experience with version control systems such as Team Foundation Server (TFS) and GIT
Expertise in using Tools like Azure DevOps, Infra-as-code (Terraform), AWS, RM 2017, MS Office 365, SonarCube, Repliweb, NewRelic, SQL server 2016/2019, Test Track Pro, Jira, Visual Studio 2019
Experience in running and maintaining change control boards and key status / implementations meetings
Contributor, coordinator and approver for various release plans and schedules through production life cycles
Expertise in process improvement methodology and implementation
Proficient in performing gap analysis and creation of recommendations
Team player with excellent communication skills
Certifications
Certified ScrumMaster
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamental (AZ-900)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Professional Experience
09/2013 to Current
Lead Release EngineerActivision – New York, NY,
Performing build and release functions for projects with state and county medical eligibility and enrollment systems.
Lead engineer for migration to Azure DevOps from TFS.
Configured dashboards in Azure DevOps in order to provide multiple views of various team's progress for efficiency.
Modified work items in Azure DevOps per release requirements using import/export template functionality i.e. fields, forms and work flow rules.
Member of change control board (CCB) providing approvals and scheduling considerations for defects and change request
Working with development team on enforcing source control strategies, building, packaging, and deployment of products.
Debugging build failures, coordinating with developers and testers to resolve related issues
Worked with technical teams to improve build automation and to reduce bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline
Coordinator and approver for all scheduled and expedited changes to all lower and production environments
Contributor and approver for SDLC and release plans
Instrumental participant in the documentation and implementation of companywide migration to new Release Management processes and procedures
Facilitated Cybersecurity processes into release management tasks
Worked closely with software development, testing team, and performance team to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance
In-depth knowledge on managing azure compute resources like VMs via Azure portal and PowerShell
Through knowledge of deploying and configuring Virtual Networks in Azure
01/2012 to 08/2013
Build & Release EngineerNorthrop Grumman – Goleta, CA,
Created and manages release plan for all development release and provide instructions to team on release days
Involved in gathering, understanding and validating the project specifications
Worker with the development teams to drive and define branch management
Assisted developers with questions and problems related to the version control tool i.e. TFS, or general configuration management processes and procedures
Administer various tools supporting release management including source control, continuous integration and change management
Work with product development teams to create and meet development and deployment deadlines
Performed biweekly build cycle and testing processes.
Documented all build and release process related items
12/2010 to 12/2011
SQL DeveloperWells Fargo – El Paso, TX,
Created SSIS package to Export and Import data from SQL Server to Access, Text and Excel files.
Extracted data from Oracle databases and loaded the data into the flat files.
Deployed SSIS packages on development server using configuration files.
Configured SQL mail agent for sending mails upon package deployment.
Created several event handlers to send alerts, success messages, and error messages and implemented detailed logging.
Used various SSIS tasks such as Conditional Split, Derived Column, which were used for Data Scrubbing, data cleansing and aggregating the required data.
Education
Expected in to to
Masters in Industrial Technology: Industrial Technology California State University - Fresno, CA, GPA:
Expected in to to
Post Graduate Diploma: Business Marketing Analysis George Brown College - Toronto, Canada, GPA:
Expected in to to
Bachelor of Technology: Mechanical Engineering Punjab Technical University - India, GPA:
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