Resume of Software Configuration Manager

Title
Software Configuration Manager

Primary Skills
Visual Basic .Net, VBScript, Visual Build, Ant, MSBuild NullSoft Installer System. MS SQL Server 2000

Location
US-GA-Atlanta

Posted
Feb-21-07

Summary Twenty-plus years post-graduate experience in technical environments, consulting, managing and supporting systems and networks. Major areas of expertise include:§ Software Configuration Management around Microsoft .Net-based development projects,§ Training & Education focused on Microsoft's Active Directory Network Management tools§ Network consulting and management in a Windows environment.Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer from 1996 in Windows NT 3.51, 4.0 & Windows 2000. Microsoft Certified Trainer from 1995 to 2001. Additional skills in Microsoft SQL Server, and programming in Visual Basic .Net, VBScript, & software build and deployment tools such as Visual Build, Ant, MSBuild and the NullSoft Installer System (NSIS)Seeking an opportunity to use outstanding analytical and organization skills in a Windows development environment.


Experience 2006-2007 Three Lions Consulting Atlanta, GAOwnerProvided contract-based Configuration Management (CM) services to Cox Communications' development team producing web- & set-top box-based applications for Cox's Cable/High-speed Internet & Phone offerings. Major achievements included streamlining and simplifying CM-related processes & infrastructure, migration of development code repository from Microsoft Team Foundation Service to Subversion and automating the build processes for approximately 60 applications, reducing time-to-build from ~1 hour to less than 5 minutes.2004-2006 Total Systems (TSYS) Atlanta, GAInternet Architect/Configuration ManagerDefined & supported processes around configuration management in a Windows development environment for Total Systems' ProphIT Call Center application. Responsibilities included development workstation configuration, refinement of build process and deployment/update strategies. Oversaw standardization of build process during upgrade to next version of the ProphIT application. 2004 nuBridges Atlanta, GAConfiguration ManagerDefined processes around configuration management in an Open Source environment for nuBridges. Responsibilities included development workstation configuration, build process and deployment/update strategies 1998-2004 Extreme Logic/Hewlett-Packard Atlanta, GASenior Consultant/Trainer§ 2003 -- 2004. Development Support Specialist. Responsible for analyzing, designing and implementing the processes needed to support mid- to large-scale development efforts. Implemented Build, Promotion and Code Migration processes for HP customers § 2001 -- 2003. Primary Support lead on the Total Systems (TSYS) ProphIT project. Responsibilities included defining, implementing & supporting the processes necessary for successful Development environment -- development workstation management, Source Code database management, software builds and promotions from development to QA to production in 2001/2002. Also responsible for defining the Build and Promotional process for the TSYS Design Studio application in 2002/2003. These processes were so successful they have been implemented as 'Best Practices' for multiple other Extreme Logic projects.§ 1998 -- 2001. Trainer specializing in NT4, Windows 2000 and SQL 2000. Lead Instructor for the Extreme Logic Education Group's Windows 2000 program in 1999/2000. Consulted on various Windows NT to Windows 2000 migration projects for Extreme Logic customers.§ Subject Matter Expert in Windows 2000, Active Directory and Group Policies. § Technical lead for Sales Education team, assisting in pre-sales calls to major corporate customers.
1997-1998 Diversified Business Systems Atlanta, GAConsultant§ Contract-based consultant providing LAN/SQL Server database administration services to DBS customers.§ Supported development team at DBS customer implementing Accounts Receivable system from multiple data sources. § Managed 4 production database servers holding 20 GB of data accessed by 400 users.
1990-1997 Intergraph Corp. Smyrna, GANetwork Manager/Consultant§ Managed south-eastern region network of 7 offices across 6 states§ Received 3 outstanding service awards in 4 years for contributions to various projects§ My first project helped secure $1M+ sale by converting 100,000 lines of FORTRAN code running on a PDP 11 system to UNIX.
1985-1990 Pafec Ltd Nottingham, England & Atlanta, GATechnical Support Manager§ Managed US Support Operation for Pafec USA.§ Implemented and customized Pafec Computer Aided Design (CAD) products for customers, in UK and US.1983-1985 Plessey Office Systems Nottingham, EnglandSystems Support Engineer§ Provided Internal Support for Office Telecoms product development staff § Helped design, write and implement Source Code Management System that custom-designed Office Phone systems for employer's customers.
Education 1979-1983 Teesside Polytechnic Middlesbrough, England§ Born and educated in England.§ B.S in Computer Science.
Miscellaneous United States Permanent Resident (Green Card)References available on request

Certifications
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer from 1996 in Windows NT 3.51, 4.0 & Windows 2000.


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