principa208911

Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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About 10 years ago

Commented on It's a strong and stable deployment engine. Support has been very responsive.

I heard CA is working on a release orchestration/management solution (I think the name was continuous delivery director or something similar).

Over 10 years ago

Commented on It's easy for me to create flows, control statements, and detect errors. This used to be a nightmare.

Just wanted to say that I didn't find this solution to be very complex in my experience; one thing that helped was that the flows were built in a GUI with no coding or scripting involved. There was also a bunch of OOTB integrations and a deployment dashboard.

Almost 11 years ago

Commented on Product that looks fancy, but real black box

The assessment is candid and straightforward; and you can tell it comes from lots of real-world experience.

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About 10 years ago

Release Automation

It's a strong and stable deployment engine. Support has been very responsive.

Over 10 years ago

Release Automation

It's easy for me to create flows, control statements, and detect errors. This used to be a nightmare.

Almost 11 years ago

Release Automation

Product that looks fancy, but real black box

About me

Principal Consultant with 20 years of experience in the software industry

Experienced with
* Requirements gathering; partnering with customers to understand their needs and goals
* Consulting and engineering work on customer-specific projects; includes extensive use of APIs
* Teaching courses on the use of enterprise-class software
* Technical writing and documentation review
* Agile Scrum methodology
* Software testing and quality assurance
* Security concepts, tools and best practices
* Networking technologies, concepts and protocols
* Software configuration management
* Unix Shell, Visual Basic, JavaScript, T-SQL, XML/XPath, HTML, HTTP protocol
* Dev/QA tools, including IBM RTC, HP QC/ALM, Jira, Bugzilla
* VMware/ESX, Windows, Unix/Linux, OpenVMS

Some experience with
* Software development best practices
* Database design and administration
* Network design and administration
* Java, C, C++, PL/SQL, COBOL, Pascal
* Eclipse, Visual Studio

Management background includes
* Leading Quality Assurance and Sustaining Engineering teams with local and remote members
* Overseeing Quality Assurance, Documentation and Support for numerous enterprise-level software releases
* Product and Project Management

Security-specific experience:
* Assisted in designing and led the testing of the security schema for an enterprise-level client/server product
* Implemented HttpOnly cookie flag in JBoss 5.1 and 7.1 (required creation of custom JBoss Web valve to modify HTTP headers in 5.1)
* Through manual inspection, discovered numerous cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities across multiple product lines
* Found many other security bugs and problems, some of which exposed public sites to personal data and email harvesting
* Attended conferences, training and classes covering various security domains at Security B-Sides, Techno Security and Forensics, Learning Tree, and Montgomery College; included CISSP, Cisco Security and CCNA coursework

Education

* Franciscan University of Steubenville
* University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
* Montgomery College