RMCI, Inc.

Contract work for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Converting to an employee of RMCI effective 11 Dec 2023.

DevOps Implementor/Administrator

WellSky

Senior Software Engineer

Jack Henry & Associates

Focused on improving granularity of MSI deployment mechanism using WiX and implementing a merge/branching strategy to improve productivity. Replacing multi-feature installers with multi-installer Burn bundles.  Author several installers for new products. Introduce build improvements into the VS2010/TFS build environment. Working towards an end-to-end develop-build-deploy-test system. Implemented a local NuGet package feed. Created custom NuGet packages to support internal build needs. Implemented multi-branch source control structure with full forward and reverse integration.

Huron Consulting Group

Implemented a custom workflow activity to override the "Update Build Number" widget in the TFS 2010 "Default Template" to use a custom build number format.  Complete C# implementation with supporting unit tests and "mocked" BuildDetail testing environment.

Recomended changes to the source control system and recommended use of branching to avoid code freezes that block developer productivity for extended periods.

Diagnosed and recommended changes to build definitions and build agent configurations that severely limited developer productivity and blocked multi-configuration buidls and the use of features like gated check-in builds and true continuous integration builds.

Build Manager

Microsoft

Shipped Opalis 6.3

The System Center Cross Platform & Interop team.  Strong, motivated and results-oriented build engineer with experience in building products on various Windows and UNIX platforms including Solaris, Linux etc. Challenging and key role in the release management of products. Challenges include supporting parallel product development, integration and testing, requiring the individual to be able to work closely with the development and QA teams.

Builder 2

Creating, maintaining and improving build agents and build flavors, maintaining the build server, build tools, automation for integrating security tools in the build, integrating automation for deployment in a TFS 2008 / and soon in a TFS 2010, enabling build reporting, integrating test automation in the post-deployment, working with BGIT, emailing tasks for two big projects.

Improving the quality of our build system by writing tools, build targets , automation and deployments… checking for the bugs in the nightly build and CI, working with the dev and test team for automating more deployment tasks.

Worked on updating a WiX-based Installer.  Converted scripts based on WiX v1 and WiX v2 to version 3.

Software Design Engineer / Test

FreeBSD

Volunteer Maintainer for a number of Ada ports.  Work entails patching the underlying port and then creating a build environment compatible with the FreeBSD Ports Tree.  Also perform frequent "world" builds to test out new patches and features and to track the -STABLE branch.

Maintainer

Contractor under Volt Technical Resources.  Migrated all team builds from MESE to BuildTracker.  Adapted all the Zune scripts for use with the Experiences tree.  Wrote all the scripts for the PMX tree.  Six builds with between four and seventeen variants were run in official (once per day on change), rolling (multiple times per day on change), and buddy (on demand with a user-supplied pack of changes to the enlistment to test).  Also worked on zip, MSI, and WiX build kits.  Also setup a bidirectional mirror between TFVC and Source Depot enlistments with integrations at five minute intervals across the mirrors (the mirrors were physically located in Japan and the U.S.).

Note:  Source Depot is a Microsoft licensed version of Perforce.

Builder

Baltimore County Public Schools

Taught five sections of Algebra I to 9-12th graders.

High School Math Teacher

Cleared.

Deployment Software Engineer, Builder, Build Engineer, Build Manager, Release Manager, Tool Developer, and Technical Writer in both open source and Microsoft Windows projects.

Particularly interested in projects involving Windows Installer Xml ("WiX"), C++/C, C#, Java, PowerShell, or Python.

  * Microsoft Certified Professional in C#.
  * Microsoft Specialist in C#. 

Actively exploring, exploiting, and developing new software technologies including WiX, Docker, Custom Database Deployment, and AWS.

Accomplishments:

  * authored twenty-six MSI installers using WiX
  * authored three WPF/C# WiX Burn Bootstrappers
  * authored a complete custom action library for custom IIS configuration and custom SQL Server database deployment and upgrade
  * migrated from Azure Classic Pipelines to Azure YAML Pipelines
  * used best-practices PowerShell in Azure Pipeline Jobs and Stages

Contact me at jmcooper8654@gmail.com

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