Philip A. Ruff                  

Lean Delivery Engineer,  CSM, CSD

Reston, VA 20191

phil.ruff@gmail.com

 

OBJECTIVE

 

Train, lead and support Agile delivery teams to provide continuous build, integration, delivery, monitoring and release engineering. Synchronize the release pipeline with existing components, culture and processes, adding those needed to complete delivery and reporting. Champion and coach practices that empower the pipeline with continuous delivery expertise and change management processes across the  enterprise.

 

EXPERIENCE (2000 – Present)

 

 

Responsibilities include developing build, test, provision and deployment systems and providing support to a startup environment of developers, testers and operations.

●        Guided transition developers into functional devops team members

●        Implemented  continuous build, integration, test, deployment, delivery and improvement via Visual Studio Team Services

●        Support IT infrastructure migration to AWS

●        Created self service infrastructure for Windows servers and development in Azure and AWS

●        Scrum champion, master and coach

 

Tools: GIT, s3, MS Build, Jenkins, Visual Studio Team Services, VirtualBox,, AWS, Gulp, Angular, PowerShell, CloudWatch

 

Responsibilities include developing complex build, test, provision and deployment systems and providing support to a large community of developers and testers.

●        Developed a Devops Community of Practice as well as a created a program to educate and transition developers into functional devops team members

●        Conduct continuous improvement assessments and planning

●        Implemented  Continuous integration, maven builds, automated deployments

●        Agile coaching toward ACCM

 

Tools: GIT, Nexus, Gradle, Jenkins, Docker, Microservices, Chef, Rally, VirtualBox, AWS

 

 

Responsibilities include developing complex build, test, provision and deployment systems and providing support to a large community of developers and testers.

●        Developed a Devops Community of Practice as well as a created a program to educate and transition developers into functional devops team members

●        Scalable build, test and deployment systems in virtualized environments

●        Developed a new Devops team in support of a new contract with Veteran's Administration Health. 

●        Conduct DevOps training

●        Coached DevOps team members on continuous delivery practices

●        Initiated tutorials on important technical topics

●        Automating acceptance tests for DevOps infrastructure

●        Scrum team member and agile champion, retrospectives, planning poker, agile estimation

●        Product owner for systems team

●        Use systems thinking to see the larger perspective and context

●        Strong personal focus on learning and mentoring

●        Automated STIG of base CENToS/RHEL Linux

 

Tools: GIT, Nexus, Gradle, Jenkins, Jira, Vagrant, Chef, Rally, VirtualBox, Ruby, AWS,

Responsibilities include developing complex build/deployment systems and providing support to a large community of developers and testers.

●        Develop scalable build, test and deployment systems in virtualized environments

●        Conduct Configuration Management (CM) process and procedure training

●        Provide a story template to enhance the value of our story and provide accurate estimates

●        Scrum team member and agile champion, retrospectives, planning poker, agile estimation

 

Tools: SVN, Nexus, Maven, Ant, Hudson, Jira, Bamboo, Weblogic, VersionOne, VirtualBox

Continuous Delivery EngineerK12 Inc. December 2011 – February 2013

Responsibilities included continuous build, test, deploy and release management for application, working to virtual environments.

 

●        Contribute to the quality community of practice (cop)

●        Developed complex build/deployment systems

●        Provided CI support to a community of sixty developers and testers

●        Supported scrum teams to get greatest value out of continuous integration and delivery services

Tools: SVN, Jenkins, Nexus, Maven, Ant, Ivy, Nolio, Jira, Confluence, Tomcat, Oracle, BDD

Configuration ManagerNova DataCom, LLC. December 2009 – December 2011

Responsibilities included process planning, change management and release management for secure government agency application, working in a standards based (ITIL) environment.

 

●        Planned, defined, implemented, and documented identification and promotion processes

●        Interfaced with CyberSecurity(IA) to ensure standards compliance and successful delivery

●        Managed tracking of IAVM through the internal CM system and VMS

●        Conducted CM process and procedure training

●        Repository item identification, accounting, and auditing

 

Build and Release EngineerSRA International, Inc. Feb 2006 – Dec 2009

 

Responsibilities included process planning, change, build and release management for large 3 tier web application, working in a CMMI 3 and ISO 9001:2000 environment.

 

●        Interfaced with QA and development to ensure standards compliance and successful delivery

●        Provided automated build, deploy, and installation of multi host-distributed application to ten environments

●        Integrated configuration management of content, control, and configuration files required for WebLogic, Oracle RDBMS, Siebel, and Oracle Business Intelligence servers

●        Managed integration and testing environments to meet the requirements of development and QA

●        Provided reports on standards compliance and automated defect identification

●        Established and maintained configuration item identification and indexes

Tools: CVS, Ant, Maven, Quality Center, VMware, Weblogic, Hudson

 

Build and Release Improvement Manager  NeuStar  July 2005 – February 2006

 

Responsibilities included process planning, training, change control, version control and the configuration management for 100 project developers, and quality members.

 

●        Planned, defined, diagrammed, and documented build promotion and identification processes and procedures

●        Interfaced with QA and development to ensure standards compliance and successful delivery

●        Provided automated build, deploy, and installation of many host-distributed application to ten environments

●        Integrated configuration management of content, control, and configuration files required for WebLogic, Oracle RDBMS, webMethods Integration servers

●        Managed integration and testing environments to meet the requirements of development and QA

●        Reported on standards compliance and automated defect identification

●        Conducted CM process and procedure training

●        Repository item identification, accounting, and auditing

Tools: Perforce, Ant, PERL, Hudson,

 

 

Software Configuration Improvement Engineer   3H Technology               February 2005 – July 2005

 

Responsibilities included process planning, training, change control, version control and the configuration management for 10 project developers, and quality members.

 

●        Interfaced with QA and development to ensure standards compliance and successful delivery

●        Attended and maintained CCB meeting agendas and records

●        Provided automated build, deploy, and installation of five host-distributed application to ten environments

●        Integrated configuration management of content, control, and configuration files required for WebLogic, Oracle RDBMS, webMethods Integration server Iplanet LDAP and SiteMinder servers

●        Managed integration and testing environments to meet the requirements of development and QA

●        Reported on standards compliance and automated defect identification

●        Conducted CM process and procedure training

●        Established and maintained configuration item identification and indexes

●        Repository item identification, accounting, and auditing

●        Participated in a CMMI appraisal team

 

Tools:   ClearQuest, SVN, Nant, Ant, Maven, CruiseControl,

Continuous Integration Engineer    Emergis, Inc.                  February 2002 – February 2005

Responsibilities included the configuration management for a project for 40 business analysts, developers, and quality members 

 

●        Repository item identification, accounting, and auditing

●        Provided automated build, deploy, and installation of five host-distributed application to ten environments

●        Integrated configuration management of content, control, and configuration files required for WebLogic, Oracle RDBMS, webMethods Integration server Iplanet LDAP and SiteMinder servers

●        Reported on standards compliance and automated defect identification

●        Used the Extreme Programming (agile) methodology

 

Tools: CVS, Weblogic, Cruisecontrol, WebMethods, AntInstaller

 

Java Lead & Configuration Mgr WEBCRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES  June 2000 – Dec 2001

Responsibilities included focusing, planning, tracking, and mentoring the development team.

 

●        Coordinated development of a J2EE web application

●        Developed a live Municipal Bond solution for TheMuniCenter, which supports many financial institutions as B2B inventory provider

●        Defined and enforced CVS repository structure

●        Implemented Bill of Materials, Self-Identifying builds and Reproducible Build patterns using ANT

●        Integrated configuration management of Java, html, JSP, SQL, and XML files

●        Used Extreme Programming methodology

 

Tools: ant, cruisecontrol, jsp, ejb jms, TDD, acceptance tests, XP, agile coach role

OTHER EXPERIENCE (1995 – 2000)

 

Position	Organization	Date
Web Developer	Software Performance Systems Inc	March 1999 – June 2000
Internet Engineer & Analyst	KENROB and Assoc. Inc.	April 1998 – March 1999
Pentagon Web Analyst	Wang Inc.	Sept 1996 – April 1998
Web Developer	COMSYS	February 1996 – April 1998
System Engineer	GTSI	Sept 1995 – February 1996
Computer Consultant	MCI	May 1995 – August 1995

 

 

CERTIFICATION

 

●                     Certified Scrum Master

●                     Certified Scrum Developer

●                     Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), VMware VSP 4, VSTP 4

●                     CompTIA Security+, ITIL v3 Foundation

●                     Power of Purpose certified mentor/trainer, a More to Life course

●                     Power of Self Esteem certified mentor/trainer, a More to Life course

 

CLEARANCE

 

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