Over 20 years experience in release and deploy engineering and software configuration management
nolio@releaseengineerforhire.com
VMWare, Websphere, WebLogic, IIS, .NET, Java, JBoss, J2EE, PHP, Ruby and any other data center application technology.
Orchestrating daily application releases and maintenance with Dev, QA, and Ops. Providing a platform for all parties to document and create application release processes that can be run on testing and production servers. Enabling multi-tier complex application deployment with the push of a button while maintaining full auditability, manageability and control. Have dinner every evening with my wife and kids. Don't own a Blackberry.
Responsible for build and release of Java and C++ server components for online search platform. Job entitles maintaining the growing army of Python build scripts. Trouble shooting releases and preparing roll backs when Python scripts fail. Keeping server passwords secure and only manually providing access during complex release cycles.
Coordinated numerous source deliverables from multiple development teams including application code and so called "deployment scripts". Spent two days a week debugging bash, shell, and VB scripts when environments change and the development team wouldn't co-operate. Created and taught a 6-week introductory class for new employees, teaching how to access release and deploy information spread across the wikis, CMS, Sharepoint, and email archives.