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Anthony Escalona (206) 406-4145; Anthonype@Gmail.Com; Middle Village, NY, 11379 Anthony Escalona (206) 406-4145; [email protected]; Middle Village, NY, 11379. Technical Skills: Quality: Test tools development, Git, Jenkins, Travis, CI/CD, Selenium, Specflow, Cucumber, xUnit Languages: Templating, .Net, Bash, Python, Java, Javascript, Ruby, LaTeX Cloud: AWS: CFT, EC2, S3, SWF, EMR, Service Catalog Azure: AzureRM(Compute), AzureAutomation, Webhooks VMWare: Automation Stack, vRA / vRO (vRealize Automation / Orchestration) ServiceNow: CMP Catalog Development Deployment : CloudFormation,CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, Chef, Ansible, 12-factor Data: SSIS, Pentaho (PRD, PDI), Talend Open Studio Experience: City of New York - DOIIT NY, NY Cloud Engineer, reporting to Director of Cloud Services March 2016 – Present • Designed and Implemented continuous delivery pipelines using Azure (AZ) DevOps • Developed solution for Cloud Deployment Pipeline and Release Definition supporting approval gates and notifications • Plan and develop strategies for departments CI/CD build systems • Designed and Developed Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates for all Notify NYC resources with supported unit tests to provision, deploy, and operate web and function services • Developed and Integrated components with Identity Management (IAM) roles, IAM Security Group (SG), Hybrid and Relay Connection Managers, Azure Monitoring and Alarms, SQL Failover, SQL DB Import\Export, ScienceLogic\Remedy ticketing, Key Vault (KV), and SSL • Developed disposability with complete setup and teardown of Notify NYC infrastructure Key Results: • Reduce deployment times from days to ~95 minutes • Automatically deploy with 1:1 parity to development, staging, and production environments • Eliminate manual handoffs from different departments • Increase security by implementing IAM SG and AZ KV for all components • Integrate code pipeline tools appropriate for security and test requirements within a sprint cycle Medidata Solutions NY, NY Manager, Engineering, reporting to VP of Architecture January 2014 – March 2016 • Managed a team of Software Engineers, Test in NYC and Conshohocken offices for Data and Business Analytics systems • Maintained and supported legacy systems across reporting platforms (SAP, BOXI, Jreview, and Spotfire) • Developed and designed continuous deployment and integration frameworks using 12-factor principles • Developed automation strategy for Big Data testing Software Engineer July 2010 – January 2014 • Developed and designed frameworks that turned 2-month release cycle to bi-monthly release cycle • Developed and created a continuous deployment and integration environments that turned 8 hours deploy into 2 hours • Developed automation strategy using Cucumber, Specflow, Selenium, and Watin. • Developed Bash and PowerShell script for database replication system • Debugged MS SQL, MySQL production issues Software Quality Engineer August 2009 – July 2010 • Implemented web application test automation framework using FitNesse and Watir • Debugged test framework issues for core web application systems Getty Images Seattle, WA Software Design Engineer, Test January 2009 – August 2009 • Analyzed and Design test automation for components in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). • Developed automated scripts written in C# and Ruby used for regression testing Marchex Seattle, WA Software Design Engineer, Test September 2006 – December 2008 • Planned, designed, and developed functional and system automation for large scale systems • Developed functional and regression automation using C# (soap testing), Ruby (web automation). • Debugged test framework issues for core application systems • Maintained and enhanced test framework for core application systems DocuSign Seattle, WA Software Design Engineer, Test January 2006 – September 2006 • Developed and maintained functional and regression automation suite using C# Microsoft Seattle, WA Software Design Engineer, Test February 2001 – December 2005 • Developed, documented, and executed test plans and test scenarios per functional requirements, specifications, and plans. • Designed and implemented test plans and test cases, wrote test automation, identified quality bugs and drove them to completion, and Page 1 of 3 worked closely with developer, program managers, and peers. • Developed and implemented verification tests in feature areas that consisted of regressions, stress, and privates testing. Isolute.Com Seattle, WA Software Test Engineer August 2000–Feb 2001 • Developed tests and analyzed the behavior of web applications for IE and Netscape browsers. Performed unit, integration, and regression testing. • Developed and designed automated test tools written in VB6, ASP, SQL7.0/2000, XML, and HTML. Insulate, Inc Seattle, WA Visual Basic Programmer May 2000 –August 2000 • Software development within the Pick Database system using Visual Basic • System administration of Windows NT 4.0/2000 system for customer service application Microsoft Seattle, WA Software Test Engineer January 1999 – May 2000 • Executed manual test scripts, reported product anomalies when found, performed basic configuration and application compatibility testing, ran automated test tools, and performed analyses of the results. Part of Windows 2000 test team. • Maintained 100+ lab machines. • Developed and design automated test tools using VB6 and WSH and WMI. • Developed user documentation for test cases and test tools. • Performed Windows 2000 component testing of RPC, Storage, and Link Tracking, Profiles, and Folder Redirection. Dover Elevators Seattle, WA Field Technician Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 • Handled receiving of workstations that failed in the field; tested and repaired all workstations; ran diagnostic tests and handled tier 2 Help Desk calls. • Configured electronic mail systems, routers, hubs, and patch panels. • Debugged problems involving workstations in an NT4.0 network. Sysco Seattle, WA Field Technician Oct 1994 – Jan 1998 • Installed, trained, diagnosed, and maintained SYSCO Customer Companion Software. • Developed, acquired, and installed all hardware, peripheral equipment, and software. • Managed and monitored 300+ customers who were currently online with our SCC software. • Performed presentation and training sessions to clients and internal employees. Awards: • Microsoft Gold Star, December 2003 and December 2004 o Gold Star Awards were implemented by Microsoft as a means of rewarding the top 4% performers based on a specific project or overall commitments with high impact to the organization during a review cycle. • Marchex Employee of the Month in 2007 and 2008 • Hack-a-thon winner, Medidata, November 2013 • Speaker: Devcon Summit 2015 DevConPH, November 2015 o cert. of appreciation, http://summit.devcon.ph/#speakers o https://twitter.com/Medidata/status/666345734200041472 • 2015 Annual Innovator of the Year Award, Medidata, February 2016 o https://twitter.com/Medidata/status/699682136207581184 Certifications: • Azure AI Engineer Associate, 2019 • Azure Fundamentals, Microsoft, 2019 • Python for Applied Data Science, Coursera, 2019 • Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age, Harvard, 2018 • ScrumMaster 2011 Publications: • Nan Li, Anthony Escalona, Yun Guo, and Jeff Offutt. A Scalable Big Data Test Framework. IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation. Graz, Austria. April 2015. • Nan Li, Michael West, Anthony Escalona, and Vinicius Durelli. Mutation Testing in Practice using Ruby. Mutation 2015: 10th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis. Graz, Austria. April 2015. • Anthony Escalona. Generating a Representative Data Set from Big Data. Medidata Tech Blog, May 2015 • Nan Li, Anthony Escalona, Tariq Kamal, Skyfire: Model-Based Testing with Cucumber. IEEE ICST 2016, Testing Tool Track, Chicago, IL. July 2016 • Nan Li, Anthony Escalona, Patent: o US: System and method for generating an effective test data set for testing big data applications, Aug 2016 o CA: System and method for generating an effective test data set for testing big data applications, Apr 2018 Page 2 of 3 Conference Talks: • A Scalable Big Data Test Framework. IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation. Graz, Austria 2015 Education: Pace University, PhD CS, NY NY exp 2022 Harvard VPAL Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age, Certificate 2018 Florida Institute of Technology, MS IS, Melbourne, FL 2015 – 2017 Bellevue College, Software Engineering, Seattle, WA 2003 – 2005 Lake Washington Institute of Technology, Kirkland, WA 2004 University of Washington, BA, Seattle, WA 1987 – 1992 Page 3 of 3 .
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