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Hi, my name is Franz J. Markhgott. I am a retired professional seeking an organization that recognizes and effectively leverages my skills, experience, and dedication. I’m a Release/DevOps Engineer who specializes in release management, CI/CD automation, and cross-functional collaboration to ship high-quality software in regulated environments. I’ve helped teams implement scalable build and release processes, migrate platforms, and tighten security with ISO27001, HiTrust, and HIPAA-compliant practices. I enjoy turning complex deployment challenges into repeatable, auditable workflows. Whether it’s migrating from older ALM tools to modern pipelines, optimizing SD-WAN and cloud connectivity for remote teams, or mentoring colleagues. I’m passionate about delivering reliable tools and clear documentation that save time and reduce risk.…Hi, my name is Franz J. Markhgott. I am a retired professional seeking an organization that recognizes and effectively leverages my skills, experience, and dedication. I’m a Release/DevOps Engineer who specializes in release management, CI/CD automation, and cross-functional collaboration to ship high-quality software in regulated environments. I’ve helped teams implement scalable build and release processes, migrate platforms, and tighten security with ISO27001, HiTrust, and HIPAA-compliant practices. I enjoy turning complex deployment challenges into repeatable, auditable workflows. Whether it’s migrating from older ALM tools to modern pipelines, optimizing SD-WAN and cloud connectivity for remote teams, or mentoring colleagues. I’m passionate about delivering reliable tools and clear documentation that save time and reduce risk.

Franz J. Markhgott

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Hi, my name is Franz J. Markhgott. I am a retired professional seeking an organization that recognizes and effectively leverages my skills, experience, and dedication. I’m a Release/DevOps Engineer who specializes in release management, CI/CD automation, and cross-functional collaboration to ship high-quality software in regulated environments. I’ve helped teams implement scalable build and release processes, migrate platforms, and tighten security with ISO27001, HiTrust, and HIPAA-compliant practices. I enjoy turning complex deployment challenges into repeatable, auditable workflows. Whether it’s migrating from older ALM tools to modern pipelines, optimizing SD-WAN and cloud connectivity for remote teams, or mentoring colleagues. I’m passionate about delivering reliable tools and clear documentation that save time and reduce risk.…Hi, my name is Franz J. Markhgott. I am a retired professional seeking an organization that recognizes and effectively leverages my skills, experience, and dedication. I’m a Release/DevOps Engineer who specializes in release management, CI/CD automation, and cross-functional collaboration to ship high-quality software in regulated environments. I’ve helped teams implement scalable build and release processes, migrate platforms, and tighten security with ISO27001, HiTrust, and HIPAA-compliant practices. I enjoy turning complex deployment challenges into repeatable, auditable workflows. Whether it’s migrating from older ALM tools to modern pipelines, optimizing SD-WAN and cloud connectivity for remote teams, or mentoring colleagues. I’m passionate about delivering reliable tools and clear documentation that save time and reduce risk.

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Hi, my name is Franz J. Markhgott. I am a retired professional seeking an organization that recognizes and effectively leverages my skills, experience, and dedication.

I’m a Release/DevOps Engineer who specializes in release management, CI/CD automation, and cross-functional collaboration to ship high-quality software in regulated environments. I’ve helped teams implement scalable build and release processes, migrate platforms, and tighten security with ISO27001, HiTrust, and HIPAA-compliant practices.

I enjoy turning complex deployment challenges into repeatable, auditable workflows. Whether it’s migrating from older ALM tools to modern pipelines, optimizing SD-WAN and cloud connectivity for remote teams, or mentoring colleagues. I’m passionate about delivering reliable tools and clear documentation that save time and reduce risk.

Skills

Experience Level

Beginner

Beginner

Beginner

Beginner

Language

English

Fluent

German

Fluent

Work Experience

Release/DevOps Engineer – Contractor at Health Dialog

December 1, 2016 - June 1, 2017

Managed project resources for a client migrating from TFS 2010 to TFS 2017 in a challenging tight security environment for ISO27001, HiTrust and HIPAA. Collaborated with Development, DBAs, IT and Network teams to resolve security and cross-domain implementation challenges. Created Build and Release Management definitions in TFS 2017 to automate CI builds and deployments. Resolved Network and access issues in the implementation of the new TFS 2017 Web UI Release management process. Migrated projects to the new build and release management platform (TFS 2017), deploying artifacts to multiple environments (ALM). Produced documentation to support the new processes. Presented a live demo to the Dev team using the new tool set - from build to deployment.

Senior Release Engineer at Tyco Security Products (TSP) [Sensormatic Electronics, LLC]

March 1, 2015 - June 1, 2016

Actively managed Release Management builds across Windows (TFS) and Ubuntu (SVN) platforms for delivery to QA and Manufacturing. Created a central Build/Release support structure and tools for deployment to be accessed over the networks. Responsible for leading and assisting a Consulting initiative (migrating TFS from 2012 to 2015) in preparation to moving the repository to Microsoft Azure. Documented the build and deployment process. Spearheaded a global initiative to increase the WAN pipe size between Asia, Europe and the USA in collaboration with IT. Created and maintained build definitions in TFS. Managed TFS User access to \Trunk and \Branches / projects. Cleanup and correct branching model in TFS. Mentored Junior Release Engineers. Created a Release Management SharePoint site to communicate with the User communities in US, Ireland, India and China. Managed Network disk resources. Procured equipment for the Release Management team.

Build/Release/DevOps Engineer – Contractor at NASDAQ

June 1, 2014 - December 1, 2014

Actively managed QC deployments to AWS (DEV/BR/UAT/PROD). Created a central Build / Release structure and tools for deployment to be accessed over the networks. Created/Cloned TFS build definitions. Collaborate with Development to resolve build and deployment issues. Documented the build and deployment process. Create tools for accuracy of deployments and maintenance. Collaborate with global teams in the process of standing up 3 tier complex environments. Worked towards automation and streamlining processes that may allow deploying to any given system using the same process, tools and procedures within minutes; which included: Sahi – automated smoke testing tool, VersionOne – for change tickets and for managing Sprints and Scrums, Veracode – code penetration, BladeLogic to deploy MSI packages to target servers, BMC Remedy for ticketing.

Release Engineer II at ikaSystems, Inc.

March 1, 2011 - June 1, 2014

Responsible for creating builds (TFS/SVN - Windows/Linux). Staging and deploying software content across multiple environments (DEV, QA, Demo, TEST, Staging, UAT and PROD). Coordinate and manage patches and releases to clients (multiple products). Created processes and procedures for RelEng. Created infrastructure for RelEng. Created tools and documentation for RelEng. Used the BMC Service Desk Express (SDE) Software for iDCR (Deployment Change Requests) submission and progress tracking for production patches and releases. Used SharePoint to track Internal Change Requests (iCR’s) for DEV-QA deployments.