Merav Algon

Irvine, CA *****

acvvaj@r.postjobfree.com,

Experienced DevOps engineer with over 8 years of build / release engineer experience as well as 3 years of customer IT support and 4 years of QA.

* Helped automate processes with Jenkins and various scripting languages which include PERL, Ruby,

Bash, ANT and Maven.

* Created and supported VM farms with over 100 VMs with different OSes.

* Managed releases: collected documentation, uploaded to company website,

SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows (Server 2012, 8.1), MAC OSX, UNIX (Sun, HP, AIX, Lynx, Linux)

VMWare: ESX (5 and above), vSphere, VM Workstation, VM Converter.

Hardware Installations: Build/ Fix and Upgrade PC's Hardware.

Application Servers: Apache, JBOSS, Sun Java System Appserver.

Source version/Control: Clear Case, CVS, Perforce, Subversion (SVN).

Bug Tracking: Clear Quest, Bugzilla, JIRA

Databases: Access, SQL 2005, MySQL, FileMaker Pro

Programming Language: C/C++ (Visual C++ (6, .NET), GCC, QT), SQL, T-SQL, Java, Delphi, VB, PERL, Ruby, Ant, Bash, Maven w/Nexus repository.

Continues Integration: Jenkins, Cruise Control, Bamboo, Reviewboard

Other: Bilingual -- Hebrew / English.

Basic knowledge (reading/speaking) – Spanish, Arabic

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Integration Engineer (Contractor through Insight Global) August 2015 -- February 2016

Morphotrak, Anaheim, CA

Installed, configured, and maintained VMWare virtual infrastructure for the Integration team including

debugging failed ESX hosts, installing new hosts, creating a distributed vSwitch, etc.

Supported different projects by creating test machines: configured the VM per specifications, Installed and

configured OS, Installed and configured Oracle DB, MorphoTrak software and any other necessary software for

the VM I was working on.

Assisted in debugging software related issues (Morphotrak software)

Assisted in writing workflows for the product

Senior Software Engineer (Build/Release) June 2011 – June 2015

EMC – Avamar, Irvine CA

Installed, configured and maintained a virtual infrastructure for the build and release team: installed and configured ESX servers on Cisco and Mac Servers; installed VM vCenter, created and installed VMs with different OSes (like RHEL, SLES, Windows, Mac, etc), configured virtual datacenter to use HA and migration when needed; experience in creating VMWare OVA/OVF.

Installed and configured Continues Integration Jenkins server and a production Jenkins server as well as Reviewboard Server.

Used Maven to get, deploy and change version of various artifacts from/ to Nexus. Modified nightly build scripts (Perl) to deploy artifacts to snapshot repository. Created “magic buttons” in Jenkins to allow QA to automatically promote artifacts from snapshot to release repository. Created Ant-tasks to automatically modify version of certain artifacts so the latest version will be retrieved.

Was responsible of managing release coordination between QA / PM and consumers: Received QA reports and coordinated with PM to upload files to FTP / EMC support site; modified and updated group website with all the latest release and hotfix information.

Debugged code failures for CI and nightly builds: when an error occurred, made sure to look it up and either notify the correct developer or fix the machine that might have broken the build (if the error was due to an infrastructure failure).

Wrote / maintained documentation.

Build/Release Engineer (Contract through CompuCom) February 2011 to May 2011

Disney Interactive Media Group, North Hollywood, CA

Supervised deployment of Family/ Family Fun websites to preview and production.

Wrote Ant Script to integrate build system and deploy files

Configured Hudson jobs / slaves for automatic file build & deployment

Automated SQL Server Database refresh from production.

Configuration Management Analyst (Contractor through Syntel) February 2010 to December 2010

State Street IMS, Irvine CA

Point person to all CM processes

Built code for different types of programs: JAVA, COBOL, CPP, PB, VB for all environments (Test, Alpha, Beta and PROD).

Maintained PVCS users and file lists.

Processed Project Requests and Change Request forms

Coordinated between users and developers during the monthly release.

Wrote and validated documentation for audit purposes.

Build/QA Engineer (contractor through Incendia Partners) August 2008 to April 2009

Follett Digital Resource, Woburn MA

Developed Ruby script to automate build and database processes.

Installed and configured SUSE 10 / RHEL5 VMs with MySQL-Continuent Uni/Cluster for testing.

Used Cruise Control to configure automated build process.

Troubleshot and configured Ant build scripts with Maven repository for some 3rd party tools.

Product was built on MAC OSX and Windows XP.

System Engineer / Sales Support January 2008 to April 2008

A-Trac, Waltham MA

Devised and implemented an Access Database to track orders and shipments.

Installed and configured RedHat 5 64bit Linux Servers for pipeline testing.

Installed and configured Win2003 Domain server.

Setup a kickstart server for automated RedHat Installation.

Release Engineer March 2007 to August 2007

GetConnected, Boston MA

Devised and implemented development, build and deploy process using SVN Ant and Perl.

Generated builds and releases as necessary.

Implemented special Ant tasks for CheckStyle, Findbugs & EMMA customized according to the architecture

team’s instructions.

Setup cruise control and nightly builds for all projects.

Supported development and QA team with source control issues.

Product was built on RHEL4.0

Release Engineer (contractor through Connexion systems) March 2006 to March 2007

BladeLogic, Lexington, MA

Developed Ant, Shell and Perl scripts to automate processes.

Used Subversion (SVN) to merge, update and maintain source code.

Fixed minor bugs in the Java source code.

Developed procedures documentation.

Setup and maintained CruiseControl, StatSVN, Clover.

Ran junit tests against an Oracle Database.

Product was built on various OS systems: Windows 2000, Linux (various flavores), AIX, HP, SUN.

Localization Engineer (contractor through ISS) February 2005 to December 2005

Intel, Chandler, AZ

Tested localized Intel Drivers /software (IMSM, IGFX, Chipset, CCU) for functionality and UI.

Configured different RAID (0, 1, 5) for testing purposes.

Used ClearCase as the main Source version / control for the projects code.

IIDS (Intel International Developer's Studio, software that was used to localize UI) Project Lead:

Developed test cases, sent out test passes, analyzed results and reported back to developer/ supervisors.

OEM Engineer/Engineering QA December 2003 to February 2005

Zoran (formerly Oak Technology), Woburn, MA March 2003 to June 2003

Ran performance/quality testing on Xerox printers interpreters (PS & PCL)

Tested a firmware user application used in several lines of Lexmark and Dell Printers.

Traced C software bugs with gdb (on a Linux operating system)

Developed / edited testing tool in Perl

Constructed Clear Quest database search queries using the SQL database language

Received Employee Quarterly Award for Excellence.

Software Engineer QA July 2002 to Dec 2002

EMC, Hopkinton, MA

Tested the functionality of Storage Scope (EMC Web-based application, part of ECC software suite) on Windows, HP, Sun and AIX.

Developed test plans.

EDUCATION:

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

Technical Electives: Parallel (CUDA) programming, Software Engineering, Microprocessor- Design.

Senior Project: Voice Recognition Precision Robot: Programming the oPic Micro-Controller.

Activities: OASIS leader – Orientation leader for international students.

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