Resume of SRINIVAS NAMILLA

Resume of SRINIVAS NAMILLA

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

  • Team lead with 6.5 years of IT experience and 5.6 years specialization in Configuration/Build/Release Management and patch installation activities and expertise on, Subversion version control tool, Microsoft TFS administration, scripting tools, managing build and multiple releases. Over the course of my career, I have gained lot of experience in assessing the environment and recommending the appropriate SCM tool, setting up SCM infra and recommending appropriate labeling / branching / merging / backup strategies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PROJECT PROFILE# 1

Client:Halliburton Jun 2013 – Till Date

Location: Houston,Texas

Role: DevOps/Release Engineer

Project Title: Common Ground Infrastructure

Client Description:

Halliburton Energy Services provides products, services and integrated solutions for oil and gas exploration, development and production. Capabilities range form initial evaluation of producing formations to drilling, completion, production enhancement and well maintenance.

Project Description:

Common Ground Infrastructure project is creating a virtual software platform, a central code, artifact repository, and a unified platformfor Quality Build and Deployment assurance and performance testing. The project will also put into place a social enterprise solution to support and encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing among software development teams.

Responsibilities:

1)As part of DevOps Team, Analyze the existing Projects Build and Release Process and provide the necessary improvements and Automation avoiding repetitive manual tasks.

2) Perform and manage daily and nightly scheduled and unscheduled builds in Quick Build tool and co-ordinate with dev teams for any build failures.

3) As a subject matter expert, Recommended and chosen Puppet as automation deployment tool for different projects build outputs, also got an opportunity to evaluate current enterprise DevOps tools like Nolio,UDeploy.

4) Design and develop Puppet Manifests code and batch/powershell scripts to automate the daily and scheduled build artifacts deployment into VMWare machines along with JBOSS configuration handling and dependency/pre-requisites management,periodical backup of code and build artifacts

5) Support DevOps Environment and maintain its stability so that Development team can quickly and reliably test their new code.

6) We use JIRA for task master and project status tracking and ticketing mechanism.

7)Support Dev team to install and migrate BI/Data Management application called Pentaho.

8) Administrate Visual Source Safe(VSS) Subversion(SVN) User Accounts, SVN Branch creations and Merge activities as per releases.

9) Conduct Technical knowledge sessions to entire team on new improved process established along with tools exposure.

10) Interact with third party systems and other Lines of Business for avoiding Build/Release conflicts into target servers.

11) Single POC from DevOps Team and actively participate in all Dev,QA and Production deployments.

12) Create and maintain the documentation accordingly in Project Sharepoint websites.

Environment: Puppet,Batch and Powershell Scripting,Subversion,Quick Build 4.0,Jboss CLI,VMWare Tools,Red Hat Enterprise Linux,ANT,Maven,Artifactory,Sharepoint 2010 & 2013,MS SQL Server 2008,Windows 2008 servers,Pentaho 4.8,VSS 2005,JIRA

PROJECT PROFILE# 2

The Hartford Life Insurance Company, Hartford CT, USA Jan 2012 – May 2013

Location: Hartford,CT

Role: Release Manager

Project Title: Group Benefits

Client description:

The Hartford Life Insurance Company is part of The Hartford Financial Services Group, which was established in 1810. As a whole the company is one of the world’s largest insurance and investment companies. The company has international operations in Japan, Brazil, The UK, Canada and Ireland. The Hartford Life Insurance subsidiary is a leading provider of life insurance products, in addition to investment products, annuities, mutual funds, and college savings plans. Usually referred to as “The Hartford”, the company was recently named to Wards 2009 Top 50 Life Insurance Providers.

Project description:

“Group Benefits” is an insurance project dealing with variety of Medical and insurance benefits applied on group policies. It handles both direct and Group Redirect policies.

Responsibilities:

  • As a Release Manager below are my responsibilities performed in my project
  • Organize weekly release meetings with multiple development teams to identify the releases ahead and bring awareness on milestones as per release calendar.
  • Co-ordinate 84 applications parallel releases (Scheduled/Emergency/Weekly) for deploying their code into production servers.
  • Accountable for on-time delivery of all Release process outputs as defined in the Release Policy, processes and procedures
  • Assess the release complexity for all applications in the Group Benefits Space and perform all the required release paper work which gets tracked as CRQs in Remedy Tool and sharepoint on time.
  • Create and Maintain Subversion Branching, Merging and Tagging across each production releases.
  • Perform daily development, QA builds and deployments using Continuous Integration.
  • Apply Release specification techniques and contribute to finalizing standard guidelines in applications release.
  • Apply Release specification techniques and contribute to finalizing standard guidelines in applications release.
  • Co-ordinate with respective teams to resolve all the types of INCIDENTS raised by customers using Remedy Tool.
  • Support weekends during implementation of releases
  • Convey Release information in a variety of communication methods such as presentations, training, meetings and knowledge sessions.
  • Conduct Post Release Reviews, Implementation Reviews to identify improvements to processes and procedures over time.
  • Handle SOX Audits effectively for the releases performed in past.

Environment: Windows NT Workstation. Microsoft Windows XP Professional. Subversion,PPM,Remedy,Webshphere,Putty,SharePoint.

PROJECT PROFILE# 3

The Hartford Life Insurance Company, Hartford CT,USA August 2011 - Jan 2012

Location: Hartford,CT

Role: Subversion SME

Project Title: HIG-CCM_TMU -Subversion Upgrade-TM (Subversion Upgrade)

Project description:

“HIG-CCM_TMU -Subversion Upgrade- TM (Subversion Upgrade)” is a project dealing with the Source code management of 80+ Projects currently available in PVCS Configuration Management tool and taking all the necessary steps to migrate the code and revision history from PVCS to Subversion (SVN).During and after the Migration complete, the application flow and quality should be thoroughly tested for estimated results, documented and are stored. The estimated end date of the project is December 31st 2012which can be valid to extend on circumstances encountered.

Responsibilities:

  • As a Subversion SME, below are the responsibilities undertaken as part of this project.
  • Assessment of current project environment in PVCS repository
  • Analysis on migration process of code from PVCS to SVN
  • Maintain the baselines and entire revision history of source code.
  • Re-structure the code into SVN.
  • Ensure all the projects are well tested after code migration from PVCS to SVN
  • Taking care of Trunk, Integration and other branching ,labeling and Merging strategies
  • Co-ordination with the Tech-lead of each project to ensure all the code is correctly migrated and inform the stakeholders on same.

Environment: Windows NT Workstation, Microsoft Windows XP Professional. SVN,PVCS, Web logic Servers.

PROJECT PROFILE# 4

American Express, Hyderabad, India March 2010 - Aug 2011

Role:Build and Release Manger

Project Title: American Express- International E-apply-MemberShip Rewards

Project description:

This application enables American Express to capture applications online for 19 international markets. E-apply provides the following online applications – Card Applications (Corporate, Personal, Co-brand), promotion sign-off forms, Upgrade offer applications, Bank loan processing. The Customer data captured on the web is stored in the E-acquisition database page by page. The international E-Apply also provide back-end support to PDA based acquisitions.Mobile Acquisition American Express also uses mobile service as an acquiring channel for new card members. The mobile website which was launched for the Japan market in 2002 allows prospects to complete an e-application for the Green and Gold Charge cards. The prospects receive an email with a link to the online e-Applications.

Client description:

American Express offers world-class Charge and Credit Cards, Gift Cards, Rewards , Travel, Personal Savings, Business Services, Insurance across the Globe

Responsibilities:

  • Primary POC for Establish and improving entire Build and Release Process across all Environments.
  • Provide best practices and policies of SCM and implement accordingly to fill the gaps in current release process.
  • Perform Daily Development Builds using ANT Scripts and deploy the build outputs/artifacts into

WebSphere Servers hosted in LINUX.

  • Successfully Migrated code repositories from VSS to Subversion.
  • Establish the Build Automation process using Continuous Integration Tool called HUDSON and

Convert all the ANT build scripts to MAVEN scripts.

  • Create and maintain the HUDSON jobs accordingly as per daily, integration builds and configure for

Scheduled and on demand builds , publish JUnit Test results.

  • Create and maintain Subversion(SVN) branches including DEV,Integration,Release and TRUNK and merge the code into branches as necessary.
  • Drive the code migration from DEV,QA and Production and Disaster Recovery Environments.
  • SCM policies are implemented by defining Build & Release Management, Change Management , Version Management and deploying, Co-ordinate with the global teams so that releases into target environments happen in controlled manner.
  • Ensure all the release paperwork including creating of Tickets, ensuring SIT,UAT,code review sign offs and Environment Manager Approvals before placing the deployments.
  • Communicate the release complete status to all required stakeholders and make sure the release deployments went successful and applications are sanity tested before handover to testing team.

Environment: Linux, VSS 2005,Subversion, JAVA,ANT,MAVEN,HUDSON CI, IBM WebSphere server

PROJECT PROFILE# 5

Cognizant Technology Solutions,Chennai November 2008 to Feb 2010

Role:Build and Release Manager

Project Title: Cognizant 2.0 Intelligent Global Delivery Ecosystem

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Cognizant 2.0 Intelligent Global Delivery Ecosystem is an end-to-end integrated, intelligent global delivery ecosystem which creates a unified platform where the power of structured processes, is leveraged by the connected teams and is enhanced by right knowledge imparted at the right time.The features of Cognizant 2.0 span across project workflows, process orchestration, user collaboration and integration forum and document management.

Client description:

Founded in 1994 as a division of Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, Cognizant Technology Solutions began doing large-scale full lifecycle software projects. Cognizant specializes in delivering high-quality, cost-advantageous solutions for businesses with intensive information processing needs. This background has helped Cognizant to build and e-business and outsourcing powerhouse capable of delivering 24x7 project management on the largest software projects, backed by a world class R&D organization that helps clients manage through rapid changes in technology. Cognizant unique value proposition of better, faster, and less expensive development and management is compelling to many clients in the US and Europe, most of whom regard Cognizant as a long term partner helping them to achieve their business objectives.

Responsibilities:

  • Keeping Track of all the Details of Releases and taking the Builds of Applications according to Releases & Cycles and performing the Build solution deployments into targeted servers as per release calendar.
  • Maintaining the Build Solution Accordingly to the releases.
  • Coordinating with the different modules/applications development teams for Successful completion of build for a release on time.
  • Perform Configuration settings according to the deployment servers to make build solutions compatible.
  • Build Handover to the Testing Team and co-ordinating various issues after the build handover.
  • Week end support for the Production Moves of various releases

Environment: Windows NT Workstation, Windows XP, TFS,MS Build,.NET

SCCMCoE

SCCM CoE stands for Software Change and Configuration Management. It involves helping projects across all verticals in SCM Planning, assessing the project environment, recommending the appropriate SCM Tool, setting up SCM infrastructure, training the team on SCM tool usage and administration and finally troubleshooting. The team also guides the projects in build and release management activities.

Responsibilities IN SCCMCoE:

  • Assessment of current project environment around SCM/Build/Release
  • Recommendation of SCM tools and infrastructure
  • Recommendation of SCM/Build/Change/Release Process and Policies
  • Involved in learning Software Configuration Management and Build tools.
  • Involved in project structuring with SCM tool.
  • Involved in accessing the current scenario with various projects and giving valuable suggestions to improve in their Software configuration process.
  • Involved in the preparation of decks for various client projects.

PROJECT PROFILE# 6

Covad,Chennai Feb 2008 to Nov 2008

Role: Java Developer

Project Title: Covad MARS

Project description:

MARS is primarily a portal application which is used by Covad employees or to be more specific, technicians and engineers.

Whenever there is a network fault, or whenever new equipment needs to be installed, a request can be raised in Mars portal. A task is associated with this request for this purpose. Appropriate technicians are assigned to this task and the task gets scheduled to be completed appropriately, using WFMSP. The task is completed by the assigned technician on the scheduled date and time.

Client description:

Covad is a leading national provider of communication services including T1, DSL, Business Ethernet, DS3, voice over IP (VoIP), and wireless services. carrier-class, broadband services platform that efficiently delivers advanced voice, video, and data solutions. Covad Wholesale Services provides a nationwide, carrier-class, broadband services platform that efficiently delivers advanced voice, video, and data solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Analysis of requirements and performing required code changes. Preparation of test cases and reviewing the same. Testing the application and preparing of test logs. Shell scripting is used to track the date wise network faults and generate alerts and identify the resolved status

Environment: Windows NT Workstation, Windows XP, Java,Portlets,Tomcat,ANT,Unix Shell Scripts.

PROJECT PROFILE# 7

Covad, Chennai Sep 2008 to Nov 2008

Role: Java Developer

Project Title: Covad PMO

Project description:

Covad PMO was designed for the Covad members to update and view their company related and project related information. We were given a chance to develop this project which greatly helped us to widen our technical knowledge in design and implementation. We could do right from database design and creation of use cases to web page creation and deployment under the strict guidance of very senior resources from Covad offshore team.

Responsibilities:

  • Analysis of requirements.
  • Designing the workflow architecture.
  • Maintaining the Backend Database.
  • Role based Workflow to the Developers logging to the portal and performing the necessary coding to meet the requirements andPerform Unit Testing and handover to the UAT testing team.

Environment: Windows NT Workstation, Windows XP, Java,Portlets,Tomcat,ANT,Unix Shell Scripts.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology with specialization in Computer Science & Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India, 2007.

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