Highly experienced Build, Configuration, Release and Deployment manager specialising in implementing release control for modern software and infrastructure stacks. Source Control (Perforce, SVN, GIT, Mercurial), Continuous Integration (Jenkins, TeamCity, Go, Anthill), Build (Maven, Ant, NAnt, MSBuild, Gradle), Scripting (Ruby, Python, Powershell, Bash), Automated Testing (Selenium), Configuration Management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible), Containerisation (Docker). Over 10 years experience working in a Software Build and Deployment capacity Excellent admin and branching strategy experience in traditional (svn, Perforce) and DVCS tools (Git, Mercurial) Experience of heading up and leading Release Engineering Teams Experience designing and implementing automated release processes as a Build & Deployment Architect Good practical experience of DevOps, "Infrastructure-as-code" Configuration Management tools, Puppet, Chef, Ansible. In-depth experience setting up, maintaining and enhancing CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Go, AnthillPro) Build and scripting veteran. Ant, Maven, Gradle, MSBuild, Ruby, Python, Powershell, Bash Comfortable with technologies and tools across Windows, linux and mac environments, physical and virtualised/containerised (VMWare, Docker etc.) Automation of builds and deployments in Java, Javascript and .Net as well as older application stacks. Advocate of modern software delivery methodologies (Agile/Scrum) with focus on implementation of Continuous Delivery pipelines and DevOps approaches

Build and Release Manager @ From June 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) Build and Deployment Architect @ From January 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 5 months) Configuration and Release Lead @ From March 2008 to January 2012 (3 years 11 months) London, United KingdomConfiguration Release Analyst @ From July 2005 to March 2008 (2 years 9 months) London, United KingdomBuild Team Lead @ From September 2000 to July 2005 (4 years 11 months) London, United Kingdom

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics @ Bristol University From 1996 to 1999 Andre Ghessen is skilled in: Mercurial, Jenkins, Perforce, Agile Methodologies, Release Engineering, Build Automation, TeamCity, Confluence, Anthill, Atlassian JIRA, Maven, Selenium, Ruby, IIS, Git, Gradle, Tomcat, JBoss Application Server, Agile Web Development, Software Configuration..., DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery